Swalekh

Overview

SwalekhWeb is a jQuery plugin that enables Indic typing text fields (<input/>, <textarea/>, <div contenteditable/>) on webpages. Currently supporting 22 Indian languages the plugin supports both Phonetic typing and Virtual keyboard as well.

Supporting Languages

Hindi	Assamese	Odia	Kannada
Bengali	Gujarati	Tamil	Malayalam
Punjabi	Marathi	Telugu	Urdu
Bodo	Dogri	Kashmiri	Konkani
Maithili	Manipuri	Nepali	Sanskrit
Santali	Sindhi	English

Installation

To install Swalekh web follow the steps -

1. Include jQuery CDN v3.4 or above in your webpage.

2. Include swalekh.js CDN (Provided by us) in your webpage.

3. Initialize Swalekh using the following snippet.

$('.yourInputClass').indicInput({
apikey: 'YOUR-API_KEY',
appid: 'YOUR-APP_ID',
apiEndpoint: 'https://revapi.reverieinc.com/',
numSuggestions: 10,
mode: 'keyboard',
domain: 1
})
// You may initialize using either id or classnames

Note: Here, the ‘API Key’ and ‘App Id’ are provided by the Reverie team.

Swalekh APIs

Once your text fields are initialized, you may use the following APIs to change the language or typing modes.

Change Language API

$('.yourInputClass').trigger('change_lang', 'language code')

To capture the change_lang event an additional callback is also enabled for enhanced usage.

Find the appropriate language codes below.

$('.textbox').on('lang_changed', function(event, language) {
// `language` is the current language
})

Change Mode API

$('.yourInputClass').trigger('change_mode', 'phonetic')

Supported Modes

Swalekh Web supports the phonetic and native modes of typing.

To capture the change_mode event an additional callback is also enabled for enhanced usage.

$('.textbox').on('mode_changed', function(event, mode) {
// `mode` is the current mode
})

Language Codes

Language	Language Code
Hindi	hi
Assamese	as
Bengali	bn
Gujarati	gu
Kannada	kn
Malayalam	ml
Marathi	mr
Odia	or
Punjabi	pa
Tamil	ta
Telugu	te
English	en
Urdu	ur
Bodo	brx
Dogri	doi
Nepali	ne
Manipuri	mni
Maithili	mai
Sanskrit	sa
Sindhi	sd
Santali	sat
Kashmiri	ks