Use cases
Who it's for
Anyone who speaks English with Hebrew words in it and wants those words written right, not "close enough".
One voice, for now
Every training recording is one speaker's: an Irish-accented English speaker living in Jerusalem. It works best for voices like that. How it does on other voices has not been tested. You can try it in the browser first, and the apps switch back to stock Parakeet in one tap.
The example sentences below are illustrative. The first line in each shows the kind of mistake a stock model makes; it is not measured output. Measured results are on the model card. Every word chip is an entry in the lexicon, in the spelling Hebrish writes.
People living in Israel
Especially English-speaking olim. Daily life in Israel runs on Hebrew words, even when you speak English: the bill, the clinic, the shop, the street, the call-up. Stock dictation writes the English word that sounds closest, and you fix it by hand.
I still need to pay the a Nona and renew my today at Zehut.
I still need to pay the arnona and renew my teudat zehut.
Paperwork
- arnona
- teudat zehut
- Bituach Leumi
- Misrad Hapnim
- Mas Hachnasa
- cheshbonit
- osek patur
- Tofes 101
- mashkanta
Browse: Bureaucracy & government · Money & work
Health fund and pharmacy
- kupat holim
- Clalit
- Maccabi
- Hadassah
- Ichilov
- Acamol
- Super-Pharm
Browse: Health & pharmacy · Brands & acronyms
Shopping and food
- makolet
- Shufersal
- Rami Levy
- sabich
Browse: Food & shopping
Streets and places
- Emek Refaim
- Nachlaot
- Rehavia
- Har Nof
- Kotel
- Dizengoff
- Beit Shemesh
- Ra'anana
Browse: Places & streets
Reserve duty and getting around
- miluim
- tzav shmone
- Pikud Haoref
- mamad
- Rav Kav
- tachana merkazit
- sherut
- Egged
Browse: Army & security · Transport & travel · Home, family & school
Jewish life, anywhere in the world
You don't need to live in Israel to say these words. Jewish people everywhere drop Hebrew and Yiddish-origin words into English: at shul, at the Shabbat table, in a WhatsApp to the family. Most dictation models don't recognise them, or spell them a different way each time.
After we Dave in with the minion, we'll stay for kiddish.
After we daven with the minyan, we'll stay for kiddush.
- daven
- minyan
- kiddush
- havdalah
- shiur
- siddur
- tefillin
- dvar Torah
- Kabbalat Shabbat
- Erev Shabbat
- Motzei Shabbat
- Shabbat Shalom
- Rosh Hashana
- Sukkot
- Simchat Torah
- Pesach
- tzedakah
- shiva
- yahrzeit
- cholent
Browse: Religious life & calendar · Food & shopping
Two things to know. The spellings follow one lexicon, so it writes Pesach and Shabbat Shalom whatever spelling you use yourself. And not every common word is in the lexicon on its own yet: shul and davening, for example, are not. Suggest a word it should know.
The single-speaker caveat matters here too. The training voice is an Irish-accented English speaker in Jerusalem. Other accents, including American, British and South African Jewish English, are untested.
Writing to Israel, or about it
People with Israeli colleagues, clients or family pick up the words they hear: a greeting, a tachles, a grandparent's name for themselves. Journalists, researchers and anyone else dictating notes about Israel need the names of people, parties and places spelled the same way every time.
Amit Siegel said on Khan that the half Ghana outside the Knesset went on all night.
Amit Segal said on Kan that the hafgana outside the Knesset went on all night.
Family and colleagues
- savta
- saba
- ima
- mishpacha
- yalla
- sababa
- tachles
- beseder
- balagan
- mamash
Browse: Everyday talk · Home, family & school
News, names and places
- Knesset
- Kan
- Bibi
- Naftali Bennett
- Ben Gvir
- Barak Ravid
- Otzma Yehudit
- hafgana
- chatufim
- Yom Hazikaron
- Yom Haatzmaut
Browse: People & public figures · Politics & news · Places & streets
When dictation is how you write
For people with RSI, motor impairments or low vision, dictation is not a shortcut. It is how they write. For them, a misheard word is not a small annoyance: going back to fix it by hand is the slow, painful part dictation was meant to remove. These words need to come out right the first time.
Mazel Tov on the Yom who led it, see you at the gun on Sunday.
Mazal tov on the yom huledet, see you at the gan on Sunday.
- mazal tov
- boker tov
- yom huledet
- Chol Hamoed
- gan
- ulpan
- chugim
- doar
Browse: Everyday talk · Home, family & school
- It runs on your own device. Your audio is not uploaded to transcribe it.
- On Ubuntu and Windows, Hebrish is a tray app: press a hotkey or a foot pedal anywhere, talk, and the text is pasted at your cursor. On Android it is a voice keyboard.
- It is trained on one speaker's voice. If it does worse than stock Parakeet for you, switch back in one tap, and tell us what went wrong.
Try it on your own words
Free, on-device, for Android, Ubuntu and Windows.