The form below provides a demonstration of this open source technology. Try it with some Hebrew now! If you don’t have any handy, try transliterating this phrase from the opening of the Amidah:
אֲדֹנָי שְׂפָתַי תִּפְתָּח וּפִי יַגִּיד תְּהִלָּתֶךָ׃

Direct link to the Open Siddur Project’s transliterator
For an alternate tool, try Charles Loder’s Hebrew Transliteration App.
Romanization schemas
There is no single standard for Hebrew transliteration. In our demo you can transliterate Hebrew text in eight different ways originally set out in the following sources:
- Rules of Transcription from Hebrew Script to Latin Script (Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2007)
- International Phonetic Alphabet (2005, as used by Wikipedia)
- The SBL Handbook of Style (Society of Biblical Literature, 1999)
- Romanization Table for Hebrew and Yiddish (The American Library Association/Library of Congress, 1997)
- Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible with their Renderings (James Strong, 1890)
- Coding for Transliteration of Hebrew (Michigan-Claremont, 1984)
- An approximation of Modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation by Open Siddur lead developer, Efraim Feinstein (2010)
- An approximation of Modern Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation by Aharon Varady (2010)
Currently, the demonstration only provides romanization — the transliteration of Hebrew to a Latin script. By incorporating additional transliteration standards for additional scripts, we will be able to convert Hebrew to Greek, Cyrillic, Amharic, etc. (and vice versa). The tables are not fixed, and we can change them if bugs are found or better ways are suggested. Eventually, we will be implementing a table editor to allow editing the tables, creating, and of course, sharing new ones. For now, if you would like to add a transliteration standard to our database, take a look first at these examples.
Transliteration Tool
The source code for this romanizing transliterator is open source, LGPL licensed, so you are free to take this and use it in your web application or website as well. Join us, and help make this a spectacular resource for everyone.