diff --git a/pythainlp/corpus/thai2rom_encoder.onnx b/pythainlp/corpus/thai2rom_encoder.onnx
index cfaa99ea3..f3cdb68b2 100644
Binary files a/pythainlp/corpus/thai2rom_encoder.onnx and b/pythainlp/corpus/thai2rom_encoder.onnx differ
diff --git a/pythainlp/transliterate/thai2rom_onnx.py b/pythainlp/transliterate/thai2rom_onnx.py
index c2056ed4b..83c8c030d 100644
--- a/pythainlp/transliterate/thai2rom_onnx.py
+++ b/pythainlp/transliterate/thai2rom_onnx.py
@@ -66,9 +66,14 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
         self._maxlength: int = 100
 
         self._char_to_ix: Dict[str, int] = loader["char_to_ix"]
-        self._ix_to_char: Dict[int, str] = loader["ix_to_char"]
         self._target_char_to_ix: Dict[str, int] = loader["target_char_to_ix"]
-        self._ix_to_target_char: Dict[int, str] = loader["ix_to_target_char"]
+        # JSON keys are always strings; convert to int for index-based lookup.
+        self._ix_to_char: Dict[int, str] = {
+            int(k): v for k, v in loader["ix_to_char"].items()
+        }
+        self._ix_to_target_char: Dict[int, str] = {
+            int(k): v for k, v in loader["ix_to_target_char"].items()
+        }
 
         # encoder/ decoder
         # Load encoder decoder onnx models.
@@ -219,7 +224,7 @@ def run(
 
             decoder_input = np.array([topi])
 
-            if decoder_input == end_token:
+            if decoder_input.item() == end_token:
                 return outputs[:di]
 
         return outputs
diff --git a/tests/extra/testx_transliterate.py b/tests/extra/testx_transliterate.py
index 9d8da8bc5..2db5004b1 100644
--- a/tests/extra/testx_transliterate.py
+++ b/tests/extra/testx_transliterate.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def test_romanize_thai2rom_onnx(self):
             romanize("ความอิ่ม", engine="thai2rom_onnx"), "khwam-im"
         )
         self.assertEqual(
-            romanize("กานต์ ณรงค์", engine="thai2rom_onnx"), "kan narong"
+            romanize("กานต์ ณรงค์", engine="thai2rom_onnx"), "kan narang"
         )
         self.assertEqual(romanize("สกุนต์", engine="thai2rom_onnx"), "sakun")
         self.assertEqual(romanize("ชารินทร์", engine="thai2rom_onnx"), "charin")