Punjabi
Speak Punjabi.
It types Gurmukhi.
Speech to text for Punjabi, in any Android app. Tap the bubble floating over whatever app you're in, say your sentence in Punjabi, and Gurmukhi appears in the field that already had your cursor. No keyboard layout to install, no input method to switch to and back from.
Spoken in Punjabi, inserted in Gurmukhi.
The script
Gurmukhi is what comes back.
Punjabi is written in more than one script, and Speakline writes it in Gurmukhi. If you need Shahmukhi, this is not the app for that — worth knowing before you install rather than after.
It transcribes and does not translate. Speak Punjabi and Punjabi is what lands in the field; there is no setting that turns it into English on the way there.
Auto mode, honestly
Auto does not cover Punjabi.
Speakline has an Auto mode for speech that switches language mid-sentence. It covers ten languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian and Dutch — and Punjabi is not one of them. That list comes from the transcription engine rather than from us, and saying so plainly beats letting you find out from a bad transcript. For Punjabi, set the language to Punjabi.
Text styles
Punjabi always arrives exactly as dictated.
The four text styles — Clean, Formal, Casual and Excited — change the mark a sentence ends on, and they apply to languages written in the Latin alphabet. A Gurmukhi sentence closes with ।, not a full stop, so welding a Latin mark onto the end would be putting punctuation in the middle of your text. Punjabi comes back Clean whatever style is selected.
Questions
Asked about Punjabi, specifically.
Gurmukhi or Shahmukhi?
Gurmukhi. Speakline has one Punjabi setting and it writes Gurmukhi. There is no Shahmukhi option.
Do I need a Punjabi keyboard installed?
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.
Does Auto mode handle Punjabi mixed with English?
No. Auto covers ten languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian and Dutch — and Punjabi is not among them. For Punjabi, set the language to Punjabi.
How do I type Punjabi by voice in WhatsApp?
Set the dictation language to Punjabi in Speakline's Profile screen, open a WhatsApp chat and tap the message box, then tap the bubble, speak and tap the tick. Gurmukhi appears in the message box; you press send yourself.
Can I use Speakline for Punjabi speech to text on a computer?
No. Speakline is an Android app, for phones and tablets. There is no desktop or browser version.
Does Punjabi dictation work offline?
No. Speakline transcribes in the cloud and needs a connection every time you speak, in Punjabi as in every other language. It doesn't fall back to your phone's built-in recogniser.
