Hebrew AI: Ears, Mouth, and Brain

Can you run Hebrew AI entirely offline? It turns out the answer splits three ways — ears, mouth, and brain — and each one has a different winner. Open Hebrew speech recognition, built on Knesset recordings, is beating Google, Amazon, and OpenAI on a public leaderboard. Hebrew text-to-speech is dominated by closed models, with one clever phoneme project changing the math. And Hebrew-native language models exist, but the details matter. This episode walks through what's actually available right now, open and closed, and how good it really is.

Episode 6147 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6147 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/036859)