Introducing...
Ghoti Fingers
Ghoti Fingers is a virtual Shavian typewriter for Windows. You click on its virtual keys, and your text appears in the text box, or in the application window of your choice. This means you don't have to learn to touch-type in the Shavian alphabet, and you don't have to remember any awkward key-glyph correspondences. It is an alternative to the Javascript Virtual Shavian Typewriter, which is quite slow, is somewhat difficult to use, and which doesn't appear to work in web browsers other than Internet Explorer.
Ghoti Fingers speaks! (See below.)
Ghoti Fingers is much faster than its older Javascript cousin (i.e., if you click rapidly on the same key, none of the characters you tried to enter are omitted due to slow click-event processing). However, you can also type into the text box using your physical keyboard.
Status bar hints are provided to help you learn to type in Shavian: rest the mouse-pointer over a virtual key, and the status bar gives you the name of the Shavian letter, and the key combination you need to press to type the letter. You can also change the font used on the keys and in the text box -- select any font installed on your computer.
Once you have entered your text, you can either save it to disk, or copy it to the clipboard for pasting into another application.
A comprehensive Help file (in HTML Help format) is included.
The latest version of Ghoti Fingers speaks! Whenever you click on any of the letter keys, a .WAV file of the corresponding sound is played. I urge you to replace my .WAV files with your own.
Download Ghoti Fingers v1.3 (471k).
This version was released on Thursday 27 January 2000. If you notice any errors in it, or can suggest any improvements, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know.
If the current version causes any problems, you can still download earlier versions:
