Hebrish

Changelog

What changed, and when

Model versions, app releases and site updates.

Model versions, app releases and site changes, newest first. Model numbers are from the model card; versions 4 and 5 have not been benchmarked yet.

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Site

Charts, lexicon explorer, roadmap

  • Interactive results charts on the home page and model card, with targets for v6 to v8 (goals, not results).
  • Lexicon explorer: 2,989 words and names in 13 domains, with how often each is recorded.
  • Roadmap with live dataset counts, refreshed daily from Hugging Face.
  • New pages: use cases, integration guide, support (donations coming soon).

Site

hebrish.app launched

  • The site, with download, model card, dataset, FAQ, about and contact pages.

Apps

Parlance 0.1.0 for Android and desktop

  • First release of Parlance, which replaces Voice To Hebrish and Parakeet-Type-Ubuntu.
  • Choose between stock Parakeet and the English-Hebrew code-switching model; each is a separate ~660 MB download, kept until you delete it.
  • Android: voice keyboard (works with HeliBoard) and a Try it notepad. arm64, Android 9+.
  • Ubuntu 26.04 .deb and a portable Windows zip (untested on real Windows hardware): hotkey dictation, a Transcribe tab, model updates with SHA-256 checks.
  • Release notes: GitHub releases.

Experimental

Streaming variant on Nemotron

  • The same data and recipe as v5, on NVIDIA Nemotron Speech Streaming EN 0.6B, which streams in 80 to 1,120 ms chunks.
  • Validation WER 6.4% (offline decoding) against 4.9% for the Parakeet v5 run on the same validation set. Not benchmarked, and not yet in any app.
  • Model on Hugging Face (NVIDIA Open Model License).

Model v5

Version 5: 2,829 sentences

  • 25 more minutes of code-switched speech (269 → 294 min, 2,829 clips) and 10 more minutes of the speaker's own English (73 → 83 min).
  • A smaller step than the usual 1.5×, released by choice. Not benchmarked yet.
  • model files at this version

Model v4

Version 4: 2,622 sentences

  • 73 more minutes of code-switched speech (196 → 269 min, 2,622 clips).
  • The training mix reached its 70 / 20 / 10 target (code-switching / own English / LibriSpeech) for the first time. Not benchmarked yet.
  • model files at this version

Model v3

Version 3: 1,921 sentences

  • 76 more minutes of code-switched speech (120 → 196 min, 1,921 clips).
  • Code-switching WER down from 5.8% to 5.3%, long-form WER from 5.6% to 5.0%. Hebrew terms seen in training written correctly: 66%.
  • model files at this version

Model v2

Version 2: 1,248 sentences

  • 120.1 minutes of code-switched speech (1,248 clips).
  • Code-switching WER 5.8%, against 10.9% for stock Parakeet.
  • model files at this version

Model v1

Version 1: 873 sentences

  • The first fine-tune: 77.4 minutes of code-switched speech (873 clips), plus the speaker's own English and LibriSpeech replay.
  • Code-switching WER 6.0%, against 10.9% for stock Parakeet.
  • model files at this version

Each sentence is one read-aloud recording. Next: version 6 when the code-switched audio reaches 360 minutes. Progress: project tracker.