Licensing
Licensing Hebrish for organisations
Free for personal use, research, education and small non-profits. Health funds, public bodies and businesses need a licence, and can add custom vocabulary or a model fine-tuned for their own needs.
Not open yet
Licences are not available yet. The first major milestone is models trained on recordings from many speakers; today's models are trained on one speaker's voice. When that milestone is reached, licences open to early adopters. Organisations that want to be among them can write now to access@hebrish.app, and recordings from their own staff help reach the milestone sooner.
Who pays and who doesn't
| Who | Licence |
|---|---|
| Individuals: your own dictation, notes and messages | Free. The apps are free and stay free for private use. |
| Research, teaching and open-source projects that are not sold | Free, with credit. |
| Small non-profits and volunteer organisations (registered amutot, charities, volunteer emergency and community services) for their own work | Free, with credit. Request access at access@hebrish.app. |
| Health funds (kupot holim), hospitals, government ministries and agencies, municipalities and other public bodies | Institutional licence (paid) |
| Businesses: telephony, call centres, voice agents, products and hosted services, internal business use | Commercial licence (paid) |
Why large public bodies pay when small non-profits don't: a health fund or a ministry serving English speakers runs at a scale where Hebrish becomes part of its operations, and it already buys software and services. Their licences are what funds further development, including the many-speaker models everyone else then gets for free.
The base licence
An institutional or commercial licence covers use of the current Hebrish models (Sabich, the recommended model, and the other lines) in your own systems: on your own servers, on staff devices, or inside a product. The models run locally, so audio does not have to leave your network. A licence covers Hebrish's contribution to the models; the base models' own licences keep applying, as set out in the terms.
Added services
On top of the base licence, an organisation with its own needs can add:
- Custom vocabulary. The Hebrew and English words your work depends on: department and clinic names, drug and procedure names, place names, forms, internal jargon. They are recorded, added to training and checked before release.
- A custom fork. A model of your own, fine-tuned from the latest release of the main model on your vocabulary and, where you can provide it, your own audio (your staff's voices, your phone lines, your field conditions). When a new main release comes out, the fork can be retrained from it, so it keeps the general improvements as well as your own.
- Deployment support. Help running the models on your hardware, offline or on-premises, and wiring them into your systems.
Where it could help
- Emergency and medical services taking reports from English-speaking callers and volunteers.
- Health funds and hospitals: clinicians' notes and patient calls that mix English with Hebrew terms.
- Government departments and municipalities dealing with English-speaking residents and immigrants.
The terms still apply: in medical, emergency and other safety-critical settings, a person checks the output.
Get in touch
Write to access@hebrish.app with your organisation, what you want to use Hebrish for, and whether you are interested in custom vocabulary or a custom fork. The full legal terms are on the terms of use page. Hebrish is Daniel Rosehill's personal project; you will be talking to him directly.