ANLoc, The African Network for Localization which kasahorow is a part, with their mission to empower Africans to participate in the digital world by removing the last inch limitations imposed on language usage by the limitation of technology are calling for applications from software localization teams.

Ever wanted to type in most of the Ghanaian local languages?. With kasahorow virtual keyboards, you can do that. You can embed them on your own website to allow people to type in the Ghanaian local languages. Imagine updating your Facebook status message in Akan? or using kasahorow API to allow visitors of your website to search for local words or do simple translations. Don't you love love kasahorow tools :-)

I'm sure you have been asking several times, do kasahorow have an API I can work with to build this killer app. The answer I have for you is, YES we do have one.

In this post, I am going to expose you to the API and how you can use it for whatever purpose you have in mind and bear in mind, you cannot abuse it :-).

The kasahorow dictionaries are seeing some joy as some new features have been added to them. Verbs are automatically conjugated depending on person. Check an example out from the Ga dictionary. And another one from the Akan dictionary. And yet another example from the English dictionary here.

It happens the installer grew to ~12M, which is not as bad as we had anticipated. The size will increase in the future as more layouts are added. Go ahead and finish installing the kasahorow keyboard installer for Windows and 40M of your hard disk space is gone! This new build features a few new keyboard layouts for Zambia, Zimbabwe Uganda and Togo.

We started making country-specific binaries for Windows. A first example can be found at the project page on Google Code . This installer helps you to install keyboard layouts for 5 language clusters in Ghana. We are working on a single installer that will include all the language clusters we work with. The resultant Windows executable threatens to be very huge (more than 20MB), but we feel it is worth the trouble.

One of our prime focus is to create and promote African content. Writing in an African language requires the language's keyboard, that is why we are taking the time and effort to create keyboard layouts for most African languages across all the major operating systems.

Few months ago we made a public release of our keyboards for Windows and Mac, which are available for download at the project's download page. You can download by clicking on the filename in the list of files for download.

Just recently we released a spellchecker for Akan for the Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice Suite based on the Akan dictionary. We started receiving feedbacks regarding how to make use of the extension. Its simple. Its a spellchecker extension so all it does is, it lookout for words that have been wrongfully spelt when filling in a form. It offers suggestions for the correct spelling of the word.