Hebrew Voice Typing

Five Hebrew consonants change shape at the end of a word: כ becomes ך, מ becomes ם, and so on through ן, ף and ץ. They are separate characters, not styling.

Typing Hebrew by hand, this is the mistake people make most — שלומ instead of שלום. Dictation never makes it, because it is spelling a whole word rather than assembling letters. If you type Hebrew on our Hebrew keyboard the final forms have their own keys and are your responsibility; here they are not.

Dictated Hebrew comes back in ktiv male, full spelling — with a ו or י written where vocalised text would use a nikkud point instead.

This is correct, not padding. Unvocalised Hebrew has to signal its vowels somehow, and the extra letters are how it does it. The alternative spelling you might remember from a vocalised text is the one that would look wrong here.

Recognition returns unvocalised text. That matches how Hebrew is written almost everywhere — newspapers, email, signage, messages — and it is what you want for ordinary writing.

For teaching materials, poetry or liturgical text you will need the points, and dictation will not produce them. Add them afterwards; the Hebrew keyboard has a dedicated nikkud row.

The microphone is your browser’s. On Chrome and Edge the audio is sent to the browser vendor’s speech service and text comes back; WorldTyping is never in that path and never receives audio. The text stays in your browser, saved locally so a reload does not lose your draft.

That is also why dictation needs an internet connection, and why a browser without Hebrew speech support will not respond to the button.