Hindi
Tap the bubble floating over whatever app you're in, say your sentence in Hindi, and Devanagari appears in the field that already had your cursor. Not Roman transliteration — the actual script, punctuated, in the app you were already using.
Spoken in Hindi, inserted in Devanagari.
Not transliteration
Plenty of people type Hindi in the Latin alphabet because reaching a Devanagari keyboard is more trouble than the message is worth. Speakline removes the trouble rather than the script: say it in Hindi and you get Hindi as it is written, with no layout to install and no transliteration step to correct afterwards.
It also doesn't translate. Speak Hindi and Hindi is what lands — there is no setting that turns it into English on the way to the field.
Auto mode
Almost nobody messaging a colleague speaks only Hindi. The nouns arrive in English, the grammar stays Hindi, and the sentence crosses between them without warning. Most dictation makes you pick one language before you start and then mangles every word from the other.
Auto mode is built for exactly that sentence, and Hindi is one of the ten languages it covers — alongside English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian and Dutch. Leave the language on Auto and Speakline follows you across the switch.
Slack
One sentence, two languages, one tap. The English words stay English.
Text styles
Speakline's four text styles — Clean, Formal, Casual and Excited — change the mark a sentence ends on. They apply to languages written in the Latin alphabet, and Hindi is deliberately left out, because a Devanagari sentence does not end on a full stop. Rather than weld a Latin mark onto your Hindi, Speakline leaves it exactly as you said it, whatever style is selected.
Questions
Devanagari. Speakline writes Hindi in the script Hindi is written in. There is no transliteration mode and nothing to convert afterwards.
Yes. Set the language to Auto and Hindi is one of the ten languages that mode covers, so a sentence that starts in Hindi and finishes in English comes back with each part in its own script.
No. Speakline isn't a keyboard and doesn't appear in the keyboard picker. It types into the field through Android's accessibility service, so whatever keyboard you already have stays where it is.
No, and that is deliberate. The styles change the mark a sentence ends on, and a Devanagari sentence ends differently from a Latin-script one. Hindi comes back exactly as dictated whatever style is selected.
Also
Hindi is one of thirty. The nearest neighbours: Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali and Spanish. The main page has the full list and a 40-second tour.
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