PersePhon phonetic Farsi keyboard
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PersePhon (Persian Phonetic keyboard) enables you to type Persian in Word using a Latin-script keyboard—QWERTY or similar—in Windows XP and higher. Use PersePhon to turn your computer into a Farsi word-processor.



PersePhon is a phonetic Farsi keyboard—but it is much more than just that: it incorporates the key fundamental features of the Persian language itself to make typing easier, faster and error-free.

How it works

Let's take a simple example: the phrase اين ضبط صوت خراب است
Here's how you would type it using PersePhon:

Press these keys ... ... to see this on the screen
i ای
n اين
z اين ز
z اين ض
bt اين ضبت
t اين ضبط
s اين ضبط س
s اين ضبط ص
ot اين ضبط صوت
xrab اين ضبط صوت خراب
ast اين ضبط صوت خراب است
in zzbtt ssot xrab ast اين ضبط صوت خراب است


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Major PersePhon features include:

  • a "feel" for the language: PersePhon was developed by a team including fluent speakers of Persian/Farsi.

  • phonetic input: eg type iran for ايران and bceha for بچه‌ها

  • simple spelling for hamzeh, tanvin and other spelling points: eg ma''mur for مأمور and f`laN for فعلاً

  • "Difficult" letters are easy with PersePhon. It's far quicker to press a familiar, phonetic key twice than to hunt for a special key on the edge of the keyboard—and it's easier to learn!

    Try your hand at typing words containing the different Z and S letters in the box:

    briz = بريز     lZiZ = لذيذ     mrizz = مريض     ZZhr = ظهر
     sal = سال     ssadr = صادر     Sabt = ثابت

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  • Try this: hold your mouse cursor over any of these phrases to see how you would type them with PersePhon:
    رؤساء،    كشته شده بود،    متأسفانه،    بچه‌های كوچولو،    ياد نگرفته بود
Sending Persian e-mails
When you are happy with your Persian text you can paste it directly into an e-mail program such as Outlook Express.

In order to use PersePhon you will first need to enable Farsi language support on your system.

Screenshots

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Demo version
To evaluate the "look and feel" of PersePhon, please try out our online program PerScript. There are a few differences between the two programs (typing alef and the various forms of hamzeh, for example, is simpler in PersePhon), but the overall approaches are very similar.