Khmer Keyboard
Khmer language is official language in Cambodia and it has the longest alphabet in the world. 74 letters. Can you imagine that? Today we will take a look at new Khmer keyboard.
Currently, almost all laptops are sold in Cambodia only with the English layout. Someone is buying additional letters keyboard stickers and someone is just using virtual Khmer keyboard. Anyway you will have two levels and hitting Shift button all the time to type couple words can make you mad.
We invited Lyheng Phuoy to help us in solving this problem. He is young Cambodian who wants to change the world for the better. He has his own solution on the keyboard letters layout (Khmerism Keyboard Project).
First is his theory. We have weak and strong fingers for typing. Weak fingers are ring and little. Strong fingers are index and middle. So the letters are located according to the rule — the most used are hitten by strong fingers and less used under weak. And of course putting the most least used to second level to avoid of pushing Shift button often.
After getting first version of keyboard layout we are coming to reinforcement learning (practice). It’s and area of machine learning, inspired by behaviorist psychology, concerned with how software agents ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of cumulative reward.
So while we are testing keyboard and typing random words or text, special program is gathering all data. This data can give us answer for next questions. How many times each letter was typed? How many similar words in text? what is most frequent letter?
Then we can change letters on keyboard according to there usage. Lyheng Phuoy was experimenting a lot and he came to next layout for now.
Our team is excited to have simple and easy to use Khmer keyboard layout on Koompi. And what do you think? Share your opinions here.
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