Hindi voice typing
Hindi voice typing on your laptop, in any app.
Hindi voice typing is easy on a phone and awkward on a laptop. The Devanagari keyboard means learning a new layout, phonetic typing means spelling every word in English letters first, and most desktop dictation tools are built for English. VocalFlow is a free app for Mac and Windows that turns spoken Hindi into Devanagari text in whatever app you are typing in.
Hold a key, speak, let go. Deepgram’s Nova-3 model writes down what you said, an optional clean-up step fixes spelling and grammar, and the text is pasted at your cursor. If you speak Hinglish, you choose what comes out: Hindi in Devanagari, or Hinglish in Roman letters.
Hindi, Hinglish and 30+ languages · macOS 13+ and Windows 10/11 · Free · MIT licence
Hinglish to Hindi, or Hinglish as it is.
Most of us do not speak pure Hindi. Say “payment kal tak transfer kar dunga” and VocalFlow can give you four different results, depending on one setting. The last three need a Groq or OpenRouter key.
| Setting in VocalFlow | What is pasted | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Language: Hindi | पेमेंट कल तक ट्रांसफर कर दूँगा। | Chats and notes, with English words kept as they sound |
| Convert to Language: Hindi | भुगतान कल तक भेज दूँगा। | Formal Hindi: letters, applications, notices |
| Code-Mix Input: Hinglish | Payment kal tak transfer kar dunga. | WhatsApp chats with people who read Roman script |
| Convert to Language: English | I will transfer the payment by tomorrow. | Emails to colleagues who do not read Hindi |
Sample outputs. Clean-up and conversion run on the Groq or OpenRouter model you choose, so the exact wording can vary.
Hindi speakers, census by census.
People who named Hindi as their mother tongue grew from about 20 crore in 1971 to 52.8 crore in 2011, 43.63% of the country. That is a lot of people writing to each other on keyboards designed for English.
- 1971
- 20.28 crore
- 1981
- 25.77 crore
- 1991
- 32.95 crore
- 2001
- 42.20 crore
- 2011
- 52.83 crore
Persons who returned Hindi as their mother tongue (Statement 5). 1981 excludes Assam and 1991 excludes Jammu & Kashmir, where no census was held. Maithili is counted separately in every year. · Source: Census of India 2011, Language (C-16)
From your voice to Devanagari at the cursor.
- 01You speakHindi, Hinglish or English, while holding the hotkey
- 02Deepgram Nova-3Transcribes with the language set to Hindi
- 03Clean-up, if onFixes spelling and grammar, converts or transliterates
- 04Pasted at the cursorUnicode Devanagari, in whatever app you are in
- Language set to Hindi
- Pick Hindi (hi) in Settings. Nova-3 and the older Nova-2 both support it.
- Hinglish handling
- Code-Mix Input keeps mixed speech in Roman letters. Convert to Language rewrites every word in Hindi.
- Plain Unicode text
- The result is ordinary Devanagari text, so it pastes, searches and prints like anything you typed.
- No keyboard to learn
- You do not need InScript or a phonetic input method installed. The hotkey is the only new thing.
Voice to text in Hindi, wherever you write.
VocalFlow pastes into the app that has your cursor. If you can paste there, you can dictate there.
- 01Email
Gmail and Outlook
Replies to family, clients or the society office, in Hindi without hunting for matras.
- 02Chat
WhatsApp Web
Long messages to family groups, typed at your desk in Devanagari or Hinglish.
- 03Docs
Google Docs
Letters, applications and articles. Speak a paragraph, read it back, fix a word.
- 04Notes
Notion
Notes, to-do lists and meeting minutes in Hindi, next to your English pages.
- 05Forms
Forms in the browser
Name, address and remarks fields on Hindi-language portals.
- 06Work chat
Slack and Teams
Quick Hinglish replies at work, in Roman letters if that is what your team reads.
Set up Hindi voice typing in a few minutes.
- 01
Download VocalFlow
The .pkg for macOS 13 or later, or the .exe for Windows 10 and 11. It sits in the menu bar or the system tray.
- 02
Get a Deepgram API key
Sign up at deepgram.com. New accounts get $200 of credit and no card is needed. Paste the key into VocalFlow’s Settings and click Save & Verify.
- 03
Choose Nova-3 and Hindi
In Settings, pick the Nova-3 model and set the language to Hindi (hi).
- 04
Add clean-up for Hinglish (optional)
Paste a Groq or OpenRouter key, then turn on Code-Mix Input with Hinglish, or Convert to Language with Hindi.
- 05
Hold the key and speak
Right Option on a Mac, Right Alt on Windows, or any key you set. Let go and the Hindi text appears at your cursor.
