Avro Keyboard (Bengali: অভ্র কিবোর্ড) is a free and open source graphical keyboard software developed by OmicronLab for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOS, and unofficial (as Ridmik Keyboard) for Android and iOS operating system. It is the first free Unicode and ANSI compliant Bengali keyboard interface for Windows that was published on 26 March, 2003.
Avro Keyboard has support for fixed keyboard layout and phonetic layout named "Avro Phonetic" that allows typing Bengali through romanized transliteration. Avro Keyboard comes with many additional features; auto correction, spell checker, a font fixer tool to set default Bengali font, a keyboard layout editor, Unicode to ANSI converter, ANSI to Unicode converter and a set of Bengali Unicode and ANSI fonts. This software is provided in a Standard Installer edition and Portable edition for Windows.
Avro Keyboard is a tool conceived for users from countries of the likes of Bangladesh and India. It's a free keyboard for the Bengali language that's also fully compatible with Unicode and ANSI. It allows us to enter text in that languages into our operating system. The most popular Bangla text tool at present.
Once you install the software, you'll be able to easily write text in this language on Windows, whether documents, spreadsheets, emails, or for any other purpose you may need. And all the latter, avoiding mistakes and using a spellchecker. You can choose any of the default keyboard layouts or configure a customized version. And thanks to the automation options, the possibilities to enter text are easier than ever.
With this software, we can write the phonemes of this language with our usual characters, and the program will take care of converting them. It uses English as the base language so that anyone can get around easily. It doesn't matter if your PC isn't compatible with this language: it works as an interface at a system level.