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10 Cheshvan 5787
Jachnun and Sabich: the first stable Hebrish models, in depth
A deep dive into the first stable Hebrish models, Jachnun v1.0 and Sabich v1.0: the data, the training recipe, the results against stock Parakeet and Whisper, the formats, and the full white paper.
10 Cheshvan 5787
Hebrish: one home for my English-Hebrew speech models
Hebrish is my one-person, not-for-profit home for English-Hebrew speech models: Jachnun, Sabich, Shakshuka and the Whisper fine-tunes, free apps, open data and benchmarks, all at hebrish.app.
8 Cheshvan 5787
Voice typing that understands Hebrish
Speech-to-text mangles the Hebrew words English speakers in Israel use every day. Hebrish fixes that: free on-device apps for Android, Linux and Windows, the Jachnun and Sabich models, results, and how you can help.
6 Cheshvan 5787 Update
Whisper Hebrish Small ACFT: a code-switching model for FUTO Keyboard
A phone-sized Whisper Hebrish for FUTO Keyboard on Android. It halves the stock English model's error rate on English-with-Hebrew dictation (11.8% to 5.8% WER) and imports as a single 264 MB file.
6 Cheshvan 5787 Update
Whisper Hebrish v2 Released
Version 2 of Whisper Hebrish, my Whisper fine-tune for English with Hebrew words mixed in. Code-switching WER drops from 14.7% (stock turbo) to 6.7%, and there are whisper.cpp builds.
4 Cheshvan 5787
Can speech-to-text spell ‘makolet’? I tested seven models on Hebrish
English speakers in Israel talk Hebrish, and dictation software mangles the Hebrew words. I built an open benchmark to measure it: my fine-tune gets two-thirds of them right, off-the-shelf models a third to under half.
4 Cheshvan 5787
Teaching a podcast to say makolet: a classifier for Hebrew hiding in English
I released a small model on Hugging Face that finds romanised Hebrew words inside English text, so TTS voices like Chatterbox can stop reading them as English. Built for My Weird Prompts.