Bangla Typing Softwares
There are numerous bangla typing softwares available these days. Some can be used directly within the “html” code to write a page in Bengali and for others you have to scan the bangla document and post it as image file. If you search online, you will fill 100s of sites discussing about Free Bangla Typing Softwares! They will discuss about the benefits and problems for each one! But if you not an “advanced user” you probably don’t need to understand all that explanations! The goal for this write up is to prove you with a FREE and SIMPLE to use bangla typing software.
Recommended Softwares:
1. Bangla Word:
BanglaWord is a smart word processing application, specifically designed for writing Bengali documents. Bangla text is entered using only the vowels (swarabarnas) and the consonant (banjonbarnos). The conjunct characters (juktho okkors) are placed automatically by the system if possible otherwise when indicated by the user. Bengali alphabet is mapped phonetically on to the standard QWERTY keyboard, independent of any Bangla font. This minimize the initial learning curve and removes the need for a physical layout template.
In addition to the above, BanglaWord now allows you to send emails directly from the application as both attached BanglaWord documents and RTF format text.
Download Bangla Word (You need to fill out a small form for personal use.
Comment: Best if you just want to type something in Bangla. Don’t care about publishing in websites.
Note: Download was disabled or not working for a very long time.
2. Avro Keyboard 4.0.2
Avro Keyboard was born in the 26th March, 2003 (The Independence Day of Bangladesh), bringing a new era in Bangla computing. It’s flexible, gorgeous, feature rich, totally customizable, user friendly and already has a lot of typing automation tools that you have never imagined! Avro Keyboard, simply the Best Bangla Typing Software, breaks all old records, wipes out obstacles, rewrites history and recreates tradition!
Download Avro Keyboard( multiple mirror sites available
Comment: Best for web publishers and great for regular users.
3. Shabdik
This is one of the less known bangla typing software! I am not sure why people are not very much aware of this awsome bangla typing software. The most important feature that I like is the in built dictionary! Specially if you are publishing lots of E-books in bangla, you will love to have this cool software. You type just few letters, and it will suggest you multiple words from the dictionary. They have the full version at a small cost. The free version also works great. Probably the Dictionary feature is not fully functional in the free version. This is also UNICODE based bangla typing software. Here are some features that they listed in their official website (visit site to get complete features):
- No more hassle to memorize another keyboard layout, Type using the most usual english keyboard.
- Dictionary based automatic hint for different possible words.
- Integrated Dictionary with over 100 Thousand Bangla words.
- Single layer flexible phonetic keyboard. On the fly conversion from English to Bangla .
- Continuous Inclusion of New words into Dictionary as they are typed for the first time.
- Includes two different modes for friendly typing. Namely Letter Mode and Dictionary Mode.
- Compliant with unicode version 4. Thus all sort of Bangla sorting, searching is possible with the documents written in Shabdik.
- Compliant with Windows 2000 and later, Office 2003 and later versions.
Comment: Best if you are buying the software. Great for Bengali Ebook Publishers.
There are truly many many more bengali typing softwares available that you can search from any search engine. But we believe the three listed above will be able to meet every need you may have for Bangla (Bengali) typing!
Remember this is only our review. If you think there is evev a better bangla typing software, Please do leave a COMMENT!!
