‘Akhar 2021’ software is a gift by Punjabi University on Mother Tongue day to all –VC
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
On the occasion of Mother tongue day Prof. Arvind, Vice Chancellor of Punjabi University, Patiala launched Akhar-2021, the next version of the popular Punjabi software, Akhar 2016.
According to Dr. Gurpreet Singh Lehal, Director Research Centre for Punjabi Language Technology and the project leader of the software, Akhar 2021, besides the word processing features provided in Akhar 2016, such as Punjabi typing facility, Punjabi spell checker, AI based Font Converter, Punjabi-English dictionaries and Gurmukhi-Shahmukhi transliteration, many new features have been added in Akhar 2021.
Some of the new prominent features provided in Akhar 2021for simplifying the usage of Punjabi on computers are auto correction, auto spell checking, auto word completion, thesaurus, script grammar checker, email facility and a powerful AI based multilingual fuzzy search. This is the first time that any Indian language word processor has provided such powerful features for any Indian language and these features have made Akhar 2021 an invaluable tool for Punjabi learners, typists, students, teachers, journalists and writers.
For the promotion of digitization of Punjabi language, Akhar 2021 will be installed in offices of Punjab government and training will be provided to the staff for usage of Akhar 2021. The spell checker, dictionaries and typing tools provided in Akhar 2021 will greatly simplify the creation of correctly spelled Punjabi documents, official letters and emails even for those not conversant with Punjabi typing or spellings. Dr. Lehal, also gave a live demonstration of Akhar 2021 and converted with high accuracy, one of the poem of Bhai Vir Singh from Gurmukhi to Shahmukhi.
‘Akhar 2021’ software is a gift by Punjabi University on Mother Tongue day to all –VC. According to Dr. Ankur Rana, the Principal technical architect of Akhar 2021, Akhar 2016 is already being used in more than 60 countries by more than 16,000 users and the latest version will be even more popular among the users due to new features added on demand of the users.
February 21,2022
