Adding Hebrew Support to Rhasspy

[synesthesiam]

Hi Shay,

I run the Rhasspy project, a free, completely offline, open source voice assistant for as many languages as possible. A user on the Rhasspy forums recently asked about adding Hebrew, and I found this page. Would you be interested in helping?

I'd be happy to train a Kaldi nnet3 model for Hebrew, given enough speech data (at least a few dozen hours, 100's would be best). Unfortunately, there's no Hebrew on Common Voice or OpenSLR (except the yes/no dataset). I did find CoSIH, but haven't determined if it's viable yet.

If you could help crowdsource speech data with an open license (maybe using the SVLM corpus?), I will do the rest. If at least one Hebrew speaker has a good microphone and would be willing, I have a fork of MozillaTTS that I've been using to train text to speech voices.