About Ukti
Ukti (উক্তি) means an utterance, something said aloud. The extension does what the name says.
Why Ukti
Bangla is spoken by around 230 million people. Many of them speak it fluently every day and cannot type it. The Bengali script has far more characters than a keyboard has keys, so typing it means learning a layout like Avro or Bijoy, or installing software. So people who think in Bangla end up writing to each other in roman letters, or in English, or not writing at all.
Ukti tries to close that gap in the simplest way there is: speak into the box you were already writing in, and it is written. One thing, done well.
The maker
Ukti is made by Md Rashadul Islam, a Computer Science (CSE) student at Daffodil International University.
In Rashadul’s own words: Ukti exists so that people who cannot type Bangla can still write easily in their own language. Completely free, and your words are not stored anywhere.
- GitHub: Rashadul22
- LinkedIn: Md Rashadul Islam
What Ukti is not
Ukti is not a company. It has no server, no account, no ads and no business in selling data. Speech recognition is Chrome’s, and that audio goes to Google; we do not hide it. The details are in the privacy policy.
Open source
The code for Ukti and for this website is open, under the MIT licence.
- The extension: github.com/Rashadul22/ukti-bangla-voice-typing
- This site: github.com/Rashadul22/ukti-site
If you find a mistake, or Ukti does not work on a site, say so on GitHub.
This website
This site keeps the same promise as the extension: no cookies, no analytics, no third-party scripts or fonts. The font, Noto Sans Bengali, is served from this site.