Transcribe Hebrew audio to text
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Hebrew transcription, in detail
Accuracy, the accents we cover, and the words worth teaching your custom dictionary.
Estimated accuracy
Known locally as
Script, right to left
Model
Estimated on clear, single-speaker audio. Recording quality, crosstalk and background noise move this figure further than the language itself does.
Accents and varieties covered
Hebrew is not one accent. These are the varieties the model is built to handle, so a regional speaker is not a special case.
Modern Israeli Hebrew General Mizrahi-influenced- Speakers
- about 9 million
- Where it's spoken
- Israel, with communities worldwide
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic, Semitic
- Say hello
- שלום
What the output looks like
Timestamped, speaker-labelled, and editable in your browser the moment it lands.
נתחיל עם הנתונים של הרבעון האחרון.
In English: We'll start with last quarter's figures.
Words worth adding to your custom dictionary
Every language has a handful of words any engine has to guess at. In Hebrew these are the usual ones. Add them to your custom dictionary once and they come back right in every transcript from then on.
| Commonly guessed | What you meant | Why they collide |
|---|---|---|
| אם | עם | If and with sound identical and differ only in a letter the ear cannot hear. |
| Hanna | Chana | Given names have several accepted romanisations inside one document. |
| לא | לו | Not and to him are pronounced the same and differ by one letter. |
Getting the best Hebrew transcript
Add names, organisations and technical terms to your custom dictionary. Hebrew leaves vowels out of the writing, so the dictionary is doing real work on every proper noun.
Add the English product and technical terms your speakers use to your custom dictionary in the spelling you publish. Israeli business speech switches into English constantly, and the dictionary fixes how each term appears in the transcript.
Common questions about Hebrew transcription
Who needs Hebrew transcription?
Israeli broadcasters and newsrooms, technology companies in Tel Aviv, legal and rabbinical proceedings, and academic and archival projects working with Hebrew-language recordings.
How accurate is Hebrew transcription?
We estimate around 95.7% on clear, single-speaker Hebrew audio. Recording quality moves that figure further than the language does, so a close microphone and one person speaking at a time is the biggest lever you have. Names, places and industry terms go into your custom dictionary once and come back right in every transcript after that.
Which Hebrew accents and dialects are supported?
These varieties: Modern Israeli Hebrew, General, Mizrahi-influenced. The model is built for all of them, so a recording with several accents in the room is handled the same way as one without.
What is distinctive about Hebrew?
Modern Hebrew is written without vowels, so a bare three-letter root can be any of several words until the sentence settles it. The model resolves from context, and handles the single-letter prefixes that attach directly to the following word.
Will Hebrew text export correctly?
Yes. Hebrew text (Hebrew) comes through every export unchanged: Microsoft Word, PDF, plain text, and SRT, VTT and Avid DS subtitles. Text direction and diacritics survive the round trip, so a transcript opens the way it looked in the editor.
How long does Hebrew transcription take?
Most transcriptions are ready in less time than the length of the file. A 60-minute recording is typically processed well under an hour, and you get an email as soon as it is ready.
Can I translate a Hebrew transcript?
Yes. Pick a target language and click translate: your Hebrew transcript is translated into any of 60+ languages as a full, editable document with word-level timestamps preserved, so you can export subtitles from the translation just as you would from the original.
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Ensuring accuracy for automatically transcribing Hebrew audio into text
Just like converting any language audio or video file into text, there are a few tips to follow to get the best results:
Ensure that speakers are not talking over each other and that the recording device is close to the person speaking.
Try to reduce background noise
Try to eliminate any static or echo
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