About scim-avro

scim-avro is the open source project of OmicronLab. It is the port of popular Avro Phonetic Bangla/Bengali typing method to Linux. This software works as an IMEngin (plugin) of Scim. It let users type in English and on-the-fly transliterate them phonetically to Bangla. For example, one can type "ami banglar gan gai" and scim-avro will convert them automatically to "আমি বাংলার গান গাই"

Current release:

The current version is 0.0.2 (beta)

Download:

Binary Package

Due to limitation of our resource and enormous distributions of Linux, it is not possible for us to provide binaries for all of the varieties. If you are using other distros/other architecture/other versions than we provide, please download the source code and compile it yourself.

Source archive

File	Architecture	Description/Compatibility	Help
scim-avro_0.0.2-1ubuntu9.04_i386.deb	i386 (32 bit)	Works with Ubuntu 9.04 and Linux Mint 7	Installing from binary on Ubuntu Installing from binary on Linux Mint
scim-avro_0.0.2-1ubuntu9.10_i386.deb	i386 (32 bit)	Works with Ubuntu 9.10 and Linux Mint 8	Installing from binary on Ubuntu Installing from binary on Linux Mint

File	Architecture	Description/Compatibility
scim-avro-0.0.2.tar.gz	All	All Linux

Here are some brief documentation on how to compile:

Ubuntu - Compiling and installing from source on Ubuntu
Fedora - Compiling and installing from source on Ubuntu

Typing instruction

Here is the Bangla tutorial on how to type phonetically with scim-avro: http://www.omicronlab.com/download/pdf/Bangla%20Typing%20with%20Avro%20Phonetic.pdf

Help & Support

Visit OmicronLab forum for support.