Virtual Keyboards for Over 1,000 Languages - Keyman Desktop

HOBART, Australia, August 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Tavultesoft, an Australian company, is currently leading the world in enabling communication through multilingual keyboards. Thanks to their ongoing efforts, minority communities around the world can participate in the electronic age in their native tongue.

Tavultesoft's Keyman Desktop product enables text input in over 1,000 languages. Their market leading, multilingual, virtual keyboard software allows users to type in the language of their choice using their existing keyboard.

Keyman Desktop allows users to effectively write using a computer in their own language. With the last native speaker of a language dying every two weeks, Keyman Desktop has become a critical tool in the preservation of languages and cultural diversity.

Keyman Desktop is used by a wide range of people and organizations including:

• Individuals wanting to write in their own language
• Academics studying other cultures
• Communities in India and Sri Lanka who communicate in languages including Tamil, Sinhala, Bengali
• Missionaries who work with minority communities to communicate in local languages
• Professional linguists and literacy workers developing writing systems for threatened languages around the world
• Classical scholars who write in Greek, Aramaic, ancient Hebrew and even Egyptian hieroglyphics
• The BBC World Service write stories in languages not supported by Windows (eg Nepalese and Pashto)
• North American Aborigines who write in their unique writing systems
• Ethiopians writing in Amharic and Tigrinya using their unique writing system
• Throughout Africa, to educate and communicate in many of tribal languages

For those working with multiple European languages, there is a single, virtual keyboard that enables you to easily enter any characters used in any European language. It is great for correctly entering people's names and address with all the correct diacritics etc.

First developed in 1993, the Keyman product family has continually been enhanced and improved. This week, they released the latest version of its flagship virtual keyboard product, Keyman Desktop 8.0. Users can try Keyman Desktop for free by downloading it from www.tavultesoft.com

Tavultesoft is the developer of the premier keyboard mapping software solutions for Windows and the web, Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb. Tavultesoft work with Linguistic experts around the world to develop keyboard layouts for both common languages and languages that would otherwise have no support on computers.

Tavultesoft is a member of the Unicode Consortium, the global standards body behind the Unicode Standard, a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages of the ancient and modern world. Tavultesoft is a Microsoft Partner.

CONTACT:

Gary McMullan
Tavultesoft Pty Ltd
Ph: +61 418 964 359
Fax: +613 99236047
email: gary.mcmullan@tavultesoft.com
www.tavultesoft.com
www.kemanweb.com