Pod#178 - Zeerak Ahmed - Launching his revolutionary Urdu keyboard, Matnsaz!

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Zeerak is here too in the remaining half of a long chat we had with pod177 being about Pakistani music and this being about his project to revolutionize the Urdu typing experience on smart devices using his keyboard app Matnsaz! An app that quite recently also was launched finally after years of work!

Things discussed in this episode:

00:00 Intro

02:08 Matnsaz - What was the keyboard idea - quick pitch!

05:17 Why this would not have been possible before the age of software

10:44 How was the layout decided?

15:29 East Asian vs Latin vs Arabic, written letters vs picture-based languages!

19:12 How was the app rollout? Beta testers, new bugs, users in unexpected regions!

24:45 What are the next steps for the keyboard and rollout? - Supercharging the autocorrect

31:40 Does the autocorrect library include slang? SWEAR WORDS??? Android release when?

35:50 People want their names added to the dictionary!

LINKS:

Zeerak's Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeerakahmed

Matnsaz's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matnsaz

Matnsaz's website: https://matnsaz.net/

Matnsaz on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/matnsaz/id1380747860

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