Hebrew audio to text: what to expect
The model is trained mainly on modern spoken Hebrew, the Hebrew of Israeli news, podcasts, classrooms and work meetings. Clear recordings of that kind give a readable transcript. Hebrew results depend more on audio quality than results for the languages with the most training data, so noise, distant microphones and crosstalk cost more here. Plan to check names, acronyms and specialist terms.
The transcript is written in standard Hebrew script without niqqud (vowel points), the way Hebrew appears in newspapers and everyday writing. It is split into paragraphs with timestamps, and you can click any line to hear it again and correct it in place.
Hebrew with English, and liturgical Hebrew
Israeli speech borrows a lot of English, especially in tech and business. Words like "deadline", "feature" or a product name may come out in Latin letters or spelled in Hebrew letters, and the same word can appear both ways in one file. Hebrew speakers in the US and Europe also switch to English for whole sentences. Short switches are usually fine. If a recording is mostly English with some Hebrew, choose English for that file.
Prayer, Torah reading and classes that quote older texts are harder than conversational Hebrew. Traditional Ashkenazi pronunciation, chanting and Aramaic phrases all differ from the modern speech the model hears most. You can still get a useful draft of a shiur or a lecture, but expect to correct more of the quoted passages.
Yiddish is a separate option in the language list. Choose it for Yiddish recordings instead of Hebrew.
Choosing Hebrew instead of auto-detect
This page preselects Hebrew in the upload box. Auto-detect guesses from the opening of a file, and it can get short clips wrong or pick English when a recording starts with an English greeting. With Hebrew selected the whole file is treated as Hebrew from the start. You can switch the language in the picker before uploading if a particular file needs it.
The setting is per file. If you upload a batch where some meetings ran in Hebrew and others in English, set each file to the language most of it is spoken in.
Who needs Hebrew transcripts
Common files include meetings between Israeli teams and colleagues abroad, interviews for academic research, oral-history recordings of older family members, recorded university classes, synagogue and community lectures, podcasts and video interviews that need Hebrew subtitles. Journalists use the transcript to find and check quotes. RocketScribe does not claim legal or medical compliance, so use transcripts in those settings as a draft you verify.
Meeting recordings from Zoom or Teams can be uploaded as the MP4 or M4A file the app saves, with no conversion. If the recording sits in Google Drive or Dropbox, paste its share link instead. A recording where each person was close to their own microphone transcribes noticeably better than one from a laptop in the middle of a meeting room.
For interviews and panels, speaker labels ("who said what") are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack. On the free plan you get the full text without labels.
Exports, right-to-left text and English
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and CSV keep the Hebrew text exactly as written, so it opens in Word, Google Docs or a subtitle editor as Hebrew. The direct PDF option supports Western European characters only. For Hebrew it opens a print-ready page that you save as a PDF from your browser.
To read the transcript in English, use the Google Translate link on the transcript. The AI prompt export copies the Hebrew text with a prompt you paste into ChatGPT or Claude to translate it, summarise a long meeting or list decisions and action items.