Link to Blog of Subhasish where it was published originally
This is a comprehensive list of links that might be useful for those searching for Odia language input tools for typing in Odia alphabet, or reading an Odia book online or even learning about a village fair or cuisine of Odisha.
Books:
- Odia Wikisource, a free Odia library
- Open Access to Oriya Books
- Odia.org
- Internet Archive (for search strings “Oriya” and “Odia”)
- Odia children’s stories
Encyclopedias:
Odia Wikipedia, free online encyclopedia
Odia input tools:
- Desktop (on Firefox, Operating System independent): TypeOdia tool by Odia Wikimedia community
- Android:
- Swarachakra (by IIT Bombay)
- Indic Keyboard (by SMC)
- iOS (input tool for iPad/iPhone)
- SruScript (modified InScript by Srujanika)
- Lekha Odia (Windows based Odia input tool)
- Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool
- Google Input tool
- Dhwani (iTrans i.e. Transliteration based input)
Odia input learning manuals:
Font encoding converter (for converting Shreelipi, Akruti and other nonstandard encoding to Unicode):
Odia spelling checker:
Odia language information:
Odia-language software user manuals:
- Odia Wikipedia manual
- Odia Wikisource manual
- Odia encoding converter manuals
- All other Odia software manuals
Odia fonts for download:
- Lohit Odia (fonts maintained by RedHat for Fedora)
- Odia OT Jagannatha (source code)
- Non-free decorative Odia fonts
Odia-alphabet learning tutorials:
- Learning Odia alphabets from animations
- Handwriting Odia alphabet
- Read, write and speak in Odia
- Handwriting Odia alphabets (vowels and consonants)
Other Odia learning resources:
Contribution to translation projects:
Below are projects where you can contribute so that others can be benefited.
- Odia Wikisource (help creating non-existent but notable Wikipedia entries, and edit and enhance existing articles)
- Odia Wikisource (help digitizing Odia books by typing scanned books, proofreading text typed by other, use Optical character recognition to extract text from Odia books)
- Translation for Wikipedia/Wikimedia project system (interface) messages in Odia
- Translation for Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla products
- Translation for free and open source software
- Subtitle videos on TED, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
- Translation for Facebook
- Translation for Google