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Can speech-to-text spell ‘makolet’? I tested seven models on Hebrish

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.

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Dictation that finally understands Hebrish, on your phone and offline

Dictation that finally understands Hebrish, on your phone and offline

I fine-tuned NVIDIA's Parakeet v2 speech model to catch the Hebrew words in Israeli English. Release 2 is out: offline downloads for Android and Linux, the full model, and the training data.

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