Transcribe Yiddish audio with WhisperAI
WhisperAI transcribes Yiddish (ייִדיש) audio for the around 600,000 speakers, mostly in Hasidic communities and academic settings who use the language across Hasidic communities in New York, Israel, London, Antwerp and Montreal, plus academic Yiddish-studies worldwide. Built on OpenAI Whisper and tuned for the realities of Yiddish speech, the service produces publication-grade transcripts in Hebrew alphabet (Yiddish orthography), written right-to-left.
How Yiddish speakers actually use WhisperAI
- Hasidic-community broadcasting and educationHasidic media outlets and yeshiva educational content transcribes in Yiddish.
- Yiddish-studies academic workUniversities and institutes like YIVO transcribe Yiddish lectures and oral histories.
- Yiddish cultural-preservation workCultural institutions document Yiddish theatre, music and Holocaust testimony recordings.
- Yiddish-language podcastsIndependent Yiddish-language podcasters use transcripts for show notes.
Yiddish as a living Hasidic language and an academic-scholarly subject
Yiddish exists in two parallel worlds: the living language of Hasidic communities (where dialects vary by community) and the academic standard codified by YIVO. Generic ASR trained on Hebrew handles Yiddish badly because the languages share script but not vocabulary or grammar. Whisper handles Yiddish as its own language.
Modern Standard Yiddish (YIVO), Hungarian/Galician Yiddish and Litvish are supported with native Hebrew-script output.
Who actually needs Yiddish transcription
Yiddish demand comes from Hasidic-community broadcasting and education, Yiddish-studies academic work, and Yiddish cultural-preservation organisations.
Dialects and varieties handled
- Modern Standard Yiddish (YIVO)
- Hungarian/Galician Yiddish
- Litvish (Lithuanian Yiddish)
How to transcribe Yiddish audio
Upload your Yiddish recording
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 or similar — files up to 5GB. Long-form Yiddish interviews, lectures and meetings work without splitting.
Whisper transcribes the audio
The model recognises Yiddish speech across the dialects above and outputs Hebrew alphabet (Yiddish orthography), written right-to-left. Code-switched English and other languages in the same recording are handled inline.
Edit, label and export
Open the transcript in the editor, fix any names or terms, label speakers, and export to PDF, DOCX, TXT or SRT. Optional AI summary surfaces the key points and decisions.
What Yiddish transcripts include
Native Hebrew alphabet (Yiddish orthography), written right-to-left
Output in Hebrew alphabet (Yiddish orthography), written right-to-left with all diacritics, tone marks, special characters and script-specific conventions preserved — never transliteration.
Speaker labels
Diarisation that separates and labels speakers in Yiddish interviews, panels and multi-party meetings.
Timestamps and SRT
Word-level timestamps and SRT subtitle export for Yiddish video captioning, with proper line-breaking for the script.
Editor and exports
In-browser editor with PDF, DOCX, TXT and SRT exports. Edit the transcript without leaving the browser, then download the format your downstream workflow expects.
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