 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I want to record a quick video to share something I think it's going to be very very useful for learners of Hebrew no matter where you are in the world, but particularly for Ulim Kaddashim people who have already moved to Israel and as we all know if that's your situation learning Hebrew is such a Extremely important part of the Aliyah process and it's also a journey that continues Or should continue really from the point of arriving here with for in my case very little Hebrew to Trying to eventually get up to to fluency and not just fluency in spoken Hebrew But for those of us who are working in Hebrew There's also a whole different Hebrew that we have to try to get to grips with and that's the Hebrew used in Offices for a professional communication regards best wishes or you know with Confidence or to human-making certain all these kind of little phrases take a while to acquire Now something I can never understand and it really really bugged me actually was why Google Translate didn't offer TTS in Hebrew TTS means text-to-speech and all that means is like when you type something into your computer And you can hear a synthesized voice reading it out So for years Hebrew had TTS in Arabic English French German You name it a bunch of languages now in fairness Hebrew is by the number of speakers was going to be far down the pecking order But it took Google a long time to get their act together to finally add TTS And because Hebrew is such a sort of high-tech cluster. I was like why haven't they done it? So I I recorded a video years ago. I showed some workarounds for instance Reverso actually beat Google to the puncher. They've had Hebrew TTS for years So if I put something into a reverse or translate, my name is Daniel So you'll get here. I'm not sure if you could hear that through the through my lab mic here But in any way it was a male sort of okay TTS voice But Google Translate for me is much more useful because they have a really good app And Google also have this really great feature they added I don't know when they added this that like you know native speakers can tick off Verified accuracy of translations now the reason I'm just in case you're new to the learning Hebrew game Let's just let's put in a phrase. I I'm about to go into town because Pesach has ended And you made it like you keep us a key Pesach is time. Okay now until recently There was not this button this TTS button And I had given up on Google ever adding Hebrew and I logged in like I don't know two months ago I tried to find a press release some kind of announcement about this and I could not so this Revolutionary feature for Olim Khadashim was added quietly. I think don't don't I may be wrong about that But in any event it's some time over the last year that this was added so So it's a female speaker, it's a female synthesized voice you're not able to Change the but that goes across the board if I go if I make that in Arabic Anna It's gonna be too hard for me, but It's also female speaker. I don't think you can change They don't have like a bunch of different voices to choose from but that's okay on T fun Now if you're I was gonna say I stopped myself myself mid thought if you're new to learning Hebrew Why is this so important? The reason it's so important versus other languages is that Hebrew does not have its vowels written So just get a textual translation unless you're certain of the vowelization You don't actually necessarily know if that's any Omed or any Omed or la lech et or la luch You know, whatever you eventually have this by context It's a new word you need to not only learn the new noun. You also need to learn the vowelization Now what a lot of people use is a website called Morphix, so let's say if you put in a word like Pesach That will give you then a good doubt the vowelization, but If you're just trying to you know Build up your vocabulary get a bunch of these This is a real boon here because now all you need to do is listen to it and by listening You'll get the correct and a good note really want to be sure it might not hurt to double-check on on a dictionary like Morphix But anyway, this is a really really big deal I think if if this had been available seven years ago when I moved to Israel It would have really really helped that I wouldn't have had to spend time cross-checking every new You know every new noun or adjective I encountered on Google Translate into Morphix. There's a bunch of other resources There's a Kitzurim dictionary. There's online declension I've covered a couple of them in different videos But I think for your every day if you've been here a while you know the language pretty well But you're getting stuck on words here and there. I think putting phrase in the Google translate I don't think it's a problematic way to learn language. Some people probably argue that it is but in any event It's just become a lot more useful for those in the process of learning Hebrew because not only can you see a textual? Translation I'll be a generated by machine, but you're able to hear a TTS Text-to-speech synthesized voice and through that you're going to be able to get the the net good dose or known in English as the Validation hope this video is useful and if you'd like to get more videos for me, please subscribe to this YouTube channel