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About this tool
Transliterate live between Roman Hindi and Devanagari as you type.
The Devanagari Transliteration Keyboard converts text between Roman Hindi and Devanagari script using rule-based local mapping — a dictionary of common Hindi spellings in the Roman-to-Devanagari direction, and a character-by-character vowel, consonant, matra and anusvara map in the Devanagari-to-Roman direction. You can keep or strip spaces, digits and punctuation, and it reports the input length, output length and how many characters the rules changed. It is a quick script converter for short phrases, not a full Hindi input method, so names, conjuncts, schwa deletion and regional spellings will need manual correction.
Open Devanagari Transliteration Keyboard on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Choose a direction with the Roman → Devanagari or Devanagari → Roman tab, then type or paste into Source phrase — or load the Namaste Bharat or नमस्ते भारत preset.
Leave Preserve punctuation ticked to Keep spaces, digits, and punctuation, or untick it to strip everything except letters, combining marks and whitespace before conversion.
The Result panel shows the converted phrase with Input characters, Output characters and Rule substitutions; Copy puts it on the clipboard and Download saves devanagari-transliteration-keyboard.txt.
Roman to Devanagari for common Hindi spellings, and Devanagari to Roman with a full vowel, matra, anusvara and visarga map.
One toggle decides whether spaces, digits and punctuation survive the conversion, so you can produce clean script text or a faithful copy.
Reports input characters, output characters and the number of rule substitutions, so you can see at a glance how much of the text the rules actually touched.
Not in the Roman-to-Devanagari direction — that side works from a dictionary of common Hindi spellings such as namaste, dhanyavaad, shukriya, mera, naam and city names, and leaves unrecognised words as you typed them. The Devanagari-to-Roman direction is character-based and handles arbitrary text.
Proper nouns are the weakest case for rule-based transliteration because Hindi spellings of names vary and the rules cannot know which one you mean. Expect to correct names, conjunct clusters and regional spellings by hand.
Yes — leave the 'Keep spaces, digits, and punctuation' toggle on and they pass through untouched. Turn it off and everything except letters, combining marks and whitespace is stripped before conversion.
No — it converts text you paste or type rather than acting as a system input method, and it handles short phrases better than long passages. For everyday Hindi typing, use your operating system's Devanagari input; use this when you need a quick one-off conversion in either direction.