Dictation software - Hebrew, Linux or Free

[E.S. Rosenberg]

I also found that using a keyboard that does not have the Hebrew
letter stickers on it has forced me to know the Hebrew layout by
heart.

2012/12/27 Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012, Steve G. wrote about "Dictation software - Hebrew, Linux or Free":
>> So, I am looking for a Hebrew dictation software. Preferably Linux, but I
>> can do Windows. Should be free, if possible, or inexpensive. Should work
>> without a long and hard training period, because my accent is probably the
>> Hebrew equivalent of Redneck (I guess in Israel it would be yellow-neck,
>> since the dust has less iron clay).
>
> As far as I know, no such free software exists, unfortunately. Though
> I'd be happy to be proved otherwise.
>
> This direction (speech to text) is much easier in Hebrew than the opposite
> direction (text to speech), so it might be an approachable problem for
> somebody on this list who reads this.
>
>> I am not going to hire a typist, nor am I going at this point to take a
>> Hebrew typing course, though if it is run in software I'll consider it,
>> especially if it is free and Linux (I don't want to stop what I am doing to
>> dual boot Windows).
>
> All I can say is "practice makes perfect". Eventually you'll grasp this
> Hebrew typing. I thought like you for years, until I had no choice but
> write a 100 page document in Hebrew - and when I was done, I was typing
> pretty quickly in Hebrew - not as quickly as English, but quick enough.
>
>
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