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Typing in Punjabi will be more fun and much easier, for those who do not know how to type in Gurmukhi using the Predictive Roman-Gurmukhi transliteration technique provided in Akhar 2010. Think of the text in Punjabi like you would pronounce it but type the same text in English and the software will do the corresponding transliteration in Punjabi. The software generates script symbols that match the sound of the phonetically spelt word. Akhar 2010 allows one to type in intuitively and in turn, intelligently performs the corresponding transliteration. Most of the Punjabis can read and speak Punjabi fluently but when it comes to typing Punjabi on the computer, they just can't do it even when though they may be very fluent in typing English. Akhar 2010 comes to the rescue of millions of such Punjabis who feel more comfortable typing in English but still want to communicate in their mother tongue, Punjabi. 
 
One can also mix English words which are now part of Punjabi language, such as school, college, city, thanks, lovely etc along with the Punjabi words. The English words can be typed according to their English spellings and they will be transliterated to Gurmukhi. If a word with typical spellings is not transliterated properly it can be added to user dictionary.
 
 The software uses artificial intelligence techniques to cleverly guess the most appropriate word/alphabet and presents the other phonetically similar words sorted on their relevance to the user in a suggestion box. The user can choose the appropriate suggestion if the software cannot guess the word correctly. The artificial intelligence based fuzzy logic techniques used by the software are backed up by a rich collection of lexical resources including a Punjabi corpus of  more than 74 lakh Punjabi words, a Punjabi Dictionary of 1.5 lakh words and an  English-Gurmukhi Transliteration dictionary of more than 20,000 commonly used English words and names. 
 
Besides helping the common man to type Punjabi easily, the software can also be used to automatically convert the poems and texts typed in Roman Punjabi into Gurmukhi. The software can also be used to automatically transliterate names and addresses in databases such as telephone directory, examination records, land records etc. from Roman to Gurmukhi.  This will save thousands of hours of labour. One can with click of a mouse convert the whole telephone directory from English to Punjabi in a few minutes.
 

 A snap shot of Punjabi Typing Pad

 


 
 
   
  • Onscreen Keyboard

    An onscreen , keyboard for Punjabi has been provided , in which the Gurmukhi keys have laid out in alphabetical order. For ease of location the keys are colour coded and the twenty-five most common Punjabi words, which account for more than 25% of occurrence occurance, are also provided on the keyboard.

    Another unique feature of this keyboard is that, it supports almost all the commonly used Punjabi fonts and keyboard layouts and it can be customised to behave according to any of the commonly used Remington or Phonetic Punjabi keyboards. The keyboard also checks for illegal character combinations and does not allow such grammatically incorrect combinations as an addak followed by a bihari. For non-professional typists, an online English to Punjabi transliteration utility is also provided. A user may type a word in English and it will simultaneously be transliterated and displayed in Punjabi, which is a very useful feature for children who are not comfotable in Punjabi typing. The user can shift between Punjabi and English languages with the click of a mouse.

    Punjabi fonts supported by Akhar 2010


    Akhar 2010 has been designed to provide support for Punjabi text encoded in any of the popular Punjabi fonts such as AnanpurSahib, AmritLipi, Jasmine, Punjabi, Satluj etc. More than one hundred twenty Punjabi fonts and thirty seven Punjabi keyboard layouts have been supported. This removes the constraint on the user to type the text in predefined fonts only. The user can type Punjabi text in the keyboard layouts of the Punjabi fonts supported by Akhar 2010 or use Romanised Punjabi keyboard to type Punjabi text.



     

      List of Punjabi fonts supported by Akhar

     

    Akhar

    Amrboli

    AMRIT

    Amrit-Lipi2

    Amrit-Lipi-Light

    Amrit-Lipi-Slim

    Amrit-Lipi-Thick

    AmrLipi

    AmrLipiHeavy

    AmrLipiLight

    AmrLipiSlim

    AmrLipiThick

    AmrLipiThickTight

    AmrNeon

    AmrOutlined

    AnandpurSahib

    AnmolAmrit

    AnmolAmritLight

    AnmolKalmi

    AnmolLipi

    AnmolLipiHeavy

    AnmolLipiLight

    AnmolLipiSlim

    AnmolLipiThick

    AnmolLipiThickTight

    AnmolNeon

    AnmolOutilined

    AnmolRaised

    AnmolUbhri

    Asees

    AseesKalmi

    AseesLight

    AseesNeon

    AseesOutlined

    AseesRaised

    AseesSlim

    AseesThick

    AseesThickTight

    AseesUbhri

    Baljit Bold

    Baljit Medium

    Baljit Thin


     
     
     

    Baljit-Bold

    Baljit-Medium

    Baljit-Thin

    Chatrik

    CPPL

    DRChatrikWeb

    Ekta

    EKTA-DUNIYA

    EKTA-GOLMAL

    EKTA-GULAB

    GurbaniAkhar

    GurbaniAkharHeavy

    GurbaniAkharLight

    GurbaniAkharSlim

    GurbaniAkharThick

    GurbaniKalmi

    GurbaniLipi

    GurbaniLipiLight

    GurbaniRaised

    GurbaniUbhri

    GurmukhiLys 010 Condensed

    GurmukhiLys 010 Italic

    GurmukhiLys 010 Thin

    GurmukhiLys 010 Wide

    GurmukhiLys 020

    GurmukhiLys 020

    GurmukhiLys 020 Bold Italic

    GurmukhiLys 020 Condensed

    GurmukhiLys 020 Thin

    GurmukhiLys 020 Wide

    GuruGranthLipi

    GuruGranthLipiHeavy

    GuruGranthLipiLight

    GuruGranthLipiSlim

    Guru-ji

    JASMINE

    Jhelam

    Joy

    Likhari_P

    Likhari_R

    LMP_TARAN

    Merapunjab

    NARGIS

    PNB-TTAmar

    PN-TTAmar

    PRIME-GA

    PRIME-JA

    Punjabi

    Punjabi Sans

    Punjabi-01

    Ranjit

    Ravee

    Samtol

    SamtolAmrit

    SamtolAmritLight

    SamtolHeavy

    SamtolKalmi

    SamtolLight

    SamtolNeon

    SamtolOutlined

    SamtolRaised

    SamtolSlim

    SamtolThick

    SamtolThickTight

    SamtolUbhri

    Sarovar

    Satluj

    SriAngad

    Sukhmani

     

     

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