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What's new

Every version of Ukti and what changed, newest first. This is the extension's own changelog, so some of it is technical.

1.1.0

Everything since 1.0.1. The measurements behind each item are in PROGRESS.md in the extension’s repository.

  • Spoken commands. “প্রশ্নবোধক”, “নতুন লাইন”, “দাঁড়ি চিহ্ন” at the end of a sentence; a bare “দাঁড়ি”, “কমা” or “মুছে দাও” when said alone. On by default, with a corpus of ordinary sentences that must not trigger.

  • Snippets. Say a phrase alone and a saved text goes in.

  • Better Banglish spelling. A 451,348-word public-domain list, shipped as a 704 KB Bloom filter, repairs conversions: held-out words 57.7% to 67.2%.

  • Choices: English words in English letters, Bangla or English digits, Bangladesh or West Bengal accent, a soft start and stop sound.

  • The live preview: a listening ring that follows the voice and turns amber or red with the state, white live words and grey finished words, a copy of each sentence flying into its box.

  • Layout and colour: Bangla text never below 12px and never tracked, a tiered control (the mic, the language pair, undo, the quiet utilities), a three-column setup page with a try-it box and a maker card, light mode for every page, a visible edge on dark sites, red only for recording.

  • Sharing: “বন্ধুকে জানান” copies a message; one rating request after real use, once the store link is filled in.

  • Security: Chrome now forbids network from Ukti’s pages (connect-src 'none'); only the offscreen document can speak for the recogniser, only the service worker can drive it, only the active tab can start it, results must name their session, and page requests are bounded.

  • The maker: মোঃ রাশেদুল ইসলাম, on the popup and setup page, with LinkedIn.

  • Feedback motion. A press ripples; the box glows where the words landed; a success sends a green ring from its button and a refusal gives it a short shake; the mic sends out one ring when it starts listening and leans toward the pointer while hovered. Small press feedback in the popup and on the setup page. All of it is off with reduced motion, and nothing runs at idle. The design at rest is unchanged.

  • Readability and reach. Grey labels, hints and footers in the popup and setup page, white text on the purple buttons, the welcome card’s button and the light theme’s shortcut labels now meet 4.5:1 contrast (they measured 3.11 to 4.27). Small links, the tabs and the header switches have a 40px hit area. Both pages respect reduced motion. “Built by” no longer runs into the name in English.

  • Shortcuts. Ukti no longer takes Ctrl+Shift+Z (redo), Ctrl+Shift+B (Chrome’s bookmarks bar) or Ctrl+Shift+E from every page. Shortcuts are now Chrome extension commands, changeable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+Space to speak, Alt+Shift+1 for Bangla, Alt+Shift+2 for English, Alt+Shift+3 to undo. They do nothing outside a text box. The Alt+Z fallback is gone (it was word wrap in VS Code for the web). Pages opened before an update need a refresh before the shortcuts reach them; the buttons work.

  • Security. A web page could switch on the microphone with a synthetic keypress or a script click on the button. Only the user’s own keys and clicks are obeyed now. The password and payment field filter now covers the standard one-time-code and cc-* autocomplete values, CSS-masked passwords and contenteditable PIN and card widgets, and is re-checked at the moment of use.

  • The microphone stops when the page navigates away, the tab closes or the frame is removed mid-dictation. It used to keep listening.

  • Rapid presses and two tabs. Pressing the mic quickly no longer leaves it in the opposite state from the button; a tab that loses the microphone to another tab says so instead of keeping a lit button.

  • Messages. Every error is now in both Bangla and English. Going offline is said at once. A missing language pack says “open setup” at once instead of showing “translating” for ever.

  • Accessibility. Hidden buttons no longer take keyboard focus; the mic and toggle report their state; messages are announced; reduced motion stops every animation.

  • Performance. No message to the service worker on page load (was one per frame); the Banglish dictionary is built on first use; tiny frames skip setup. Budget in PERF.md.

  • Banglish. Corpus-measured rules for cch, the য-ফলা, verb and case endings, and English words with Bangla suffixes. Held-out word accuracy 52.6% to 57.7%.

  • Privacy. The README and the setup page now say plainly that Chrome sends speech to Google, and what the install warning means.

  • Development. A Playwright test suite (npm test), a Banglish corpus (npm run corpus), a mutation check (npm run test:mutants), and this release process (scripts/package.sh, RELEASING.md).

1.0.1

  • Gemini insertion. Converting text in Gemini’s composer now sticks; before, the change was thrown away a moment later. Each way of writing into the box is now tried in turn and checked after the editor has had its turn, because Gemini’s editor accepts a synthetic paste and then rewrites it from its own model.
  • No-op translation guard. When a translation comes back identical to the input, which happens when a language pack is missing, Ukti says so instead of writing the same sentence into the box again.
  • The toast is no longer clipped. Long messages wrap onto more lines instead of being cut off at an ellipsis, which used to hide the part of the sentence that said what to do.
  • Nasal clusters in Banglish. ng before a consonant or at the end of a word is ং (বাংলা, ইংরেজি, রং), before a vowel ঙ (বাঙালি, ভাঙা), and n before k is ং with the k kept (সংখ্যা, অংক).

1.0.0

First release.

  • Speak Bangla into any text box on any site, from a floating control or Ctrl+Shift+Space.
  • Output as Bangla script or as English, translated on the device with Chrome’s Translator API.
  • Typed Banglish converted to Bangla (Ctrl+Shift+B); text turned into English (Ctrl+Shift+E); undo (Ctrl+Shift+Z).
  • Off for one site or everywhere, from the popup.
  • Bangla and English interface.