The Yiddish toolkit
you own forever.
Dictation, translation, nikud, and a natural voice — four focused tools that run entirely on your own computer. Pay once, use it for life. Nothing you say or write ever leaves your machine.
Four experts. Each does one job superbly.
Instead of one giant model that does everything poorly, we build small ones that each master a single craft — so they stay fast, tiny, and private enough to live on your PC.
Speak. It types.
Dictation (STT)
Dictation built for Yiddish speech. Powers the push-to-talk key and file transcription.
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Two languages, one click.
Translation
Translation between Yiddish and English — both directions, fully offline.
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Every vowel in its place.
Nikud
Adds vowel points to plain Yiddish text, with full awareness of context.
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Text, spoken out loud.
Speak (TTS)
A natural Yiddish voice, small enough for any office PC.
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Built for real work, not demos
Works with zero internet
Filtered connection, airplane mode, or no connection at all — every tool runs entirely on your machine, every time.
Private by design
Your recordings, documents, and letters are never uploaded, logged, or “used to improve the service.” There is simply no wire out.
Pay once, own it forever
No subscription, no tokens, no per-word meter quietly running. One purchase, unlimited use, for life.
Dictate into any program
Hold the push-to-talk key in your email, your editor, anywhere — speak Yiddish, and the words are typed right where your cursor is.
Transcribe whole recordings
Drop in a lecture, a phone recording, or an old tape digitization and get clean Yiddish text back — no length limits, no upload.
Both directions, always
English into Yiddish and Yiddish into English — the same tool handles both, so correspondence flows either way.
Light enough for any PC
Each tool is measured in megabytes, not gigabytes. An ordinary office computer runs everything smoothly — no special hardware.
Updates included
Every purchase includes all improvements through and including the next major version — delivered right inside the desktop app.
Licensed to your computer
Each tool is tied to the computer that downloads it — and when you replace your PC, you move it yourself from your account page.
Your AI assistant
speaks Yiddish now.
The desktop app includes a built-in connector (MCP) that hands your tools to any compatible AI assistant or agent. Ask your assistant to translate a letter, add nikud to a document, or transcribe a recording — it quietly uses the tools you own, on your machine.
The assistant orchestrates; your computer does the Yiddish work. Even here, nothing of your text or audio has to leave your desk.
- Works with any MCP-compatible assistant or agent
- Translate, transcribe, vocalize, and speak — as agent tools
- One-click setup inside the desktop app
Forever yours.
Software you rent can be taken away — prices rise, servers shut down, terms change. These tools can’t be, because there is no server to shut down. Once downloaded, they belong to your computer the way a book belongs to your shelf.
Three steps, then it’s yours
Buy once
Pick a tool in the store and pay a single time. It is tied to your account — not to a subscription.
Download in the app
Sign in to the Yiddish Tools desktop app and your purchases appear, ready to download onto your computer.
Work offline forever
From then on everything runs locally — even with no internet at all. Updates are included through the next major version.
The dictionary stays free — for everyone
Our Hasidic Yiddish dictionary — more than 144,000 words and growing — is open to all, built and reviewed by the community. Log in to confirm spellings, add vowel points, and suggest corrections.
Open the dictionaryCrafted by the Hard on Soft development team
We specialize in small, hyper-focused AI that runs where your data lives — not in someone else’s cloud. Yiddish Tools is what that philosophy looks like in practice.
Want the same thing built around your business — your vocabulary, your documents, your workflow, running privately on your own machines? We build those too.
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