With the government en route to fully realizing the “Digital Bangladesh” mantra, companies are seeing a huge rise in demand for Bangla script online. This is evident from Google Play Store, where ...

The inventor of the most popular Bangla computer keyboard has won a long legal battle to protect his design and software, with the government to stop pirated Bangla language keyboards from entering ...

Bangladesh’s telecom regulator has made it mandatory to install a particular Bangla-language keyboard in all Android smartphones sold in the country – a controversial move given that the company that ...

Commemorating the International Mother Language Day, artificial intelligence-based Bangla language software Bangla Text to Speech – “Uchcharon,” Bangla Speech to Text – “Kotha” and Bengali OCR “Borna” ...

LIKE many chapters of our national history, the amazing journey of digital Bangla -- from English to Bangla computing -- remains largely unknown. Conversant persons should record that history for the ...

The Indian Statistical Institute has developed a Bangla handwriting recognition software that could soon let you create documents in that language. You just have to scribble it on the screen and it ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bangladesh’s telecom regulator has made it mandatory to install a particular Bangla-language keyboard in all ...

Telecoms Minister Mustafa Jabbar has offered an explanation as to why all Android smartphones are required to install the Bijoy Android Package Kit before being ...

The project started this February, the month when the nation's struggle to preserve mother tongue Bangla began. Bangladesh Computer Council Director Enamul Kabir is in-charge of the project. Research ...