Kotha
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Free and open source · macOS and Linux

বাংলায় বলুন।English থাকবে English-এ।

Speak naturally. Kotha types at your cursor — Bangla in Bangla, English in English. Fully offline.

Download for LinuxDownload for macOSView on GitHub

v0.1.0 · For Debian and Ubuntu · Arch and AppImage

v0.1.0 · For Apple Silicon · Intel Mac

Animated example. Someone speaks Bangla with English words mixed in, such as “আজকে meeting আছে, deadline টা extend করতে হবে।” Kotha writes the Bangla in Bengali script and the English words in Latin script.

Made for the way you talk.

  • Private by design

    Runs fully offline. Your voice never leaves your computer.

  • English stays English

    Latin script, spelling fixed. Bangla is never touched.

  • Works in any app

    Press the hotkey in a browser, a chat or a document.

  • No GPU needed

    Faster than real time on an ordinary CPU.

Get Kotha

Free. The first launch downloads the 778 MB speech model, once.

Latestv0.1.0

Arch LinuxIntel

From the AUR.Older Intel-based Macs.

yay -S kotha-bin
Download .dmg

Another distro? Download the AppImageOpen the .dmg and drag Kotha into Applications.

The speech model

Whisper-BnEn-CS

Whisper medium, fine-tuned on everyday Bangladeshi speech so English words come out in English.

  • 778 MB
  • int8 · CPU
  • Apache 2.0
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Windows isn’t supported yet. Build from source