Hebrew → English Translation
Hebrew to English translation on macOS - handles right-to-left text and unvocalized spelling, and produces natural English.
How It Works
Select your text
Highlight the text you want to translate in any application - email, a document, a browser tab, or a chat window.
Press the shortcut
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AI translates
Claude Sonnet 4.5 resolves Hebrew's unvocalised spellings, where one written form can represent several different words.
Result appears inline
The English replaces your selection as left-to-right text, cleanly separated from the right-to-left original.
Example Translation
Hebrew (Original)
מועד הגשת הפרויקט הוארך בשבועיים. אנא עדכנו את רשימת המשימות שלכם והודיעו לחברי הצוות.
English (Translated)
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Translating Hebrew to English
Hebrew is written right to left and normally without vowel points, so a single sequence of consonants can correspond to several unrelated words and only context distinguishes them - the same reason Hebrew is harder to translate mechanically than its small vocabulary suggests. Verbs derive from three-consonant roots through binyanim, patterns that shift meaning between active, passive, causative and reflexive. Hebrew marks gender on verbs in the second person, so the original often states who is being addressed in a way English cannot preserve; that information is simply lost on the way across. Hebrew also has no equivalent of the English present perfect, and modern usage mixes Biblical structures with English technical borrowings, so register has to be judged from context.
Recommended Setup
Best model for this pair
Claude Sonnet 4.5 handles Hebrew to English best in our testing. Any provider you have configured will work - this is the one to pick if you have a choice.
Voice dictation
Dictation is supported for Hebrew, so you can speak instead of typing and have the result translated in the same step.
Tips for Better Translations
Right-to-left Hebrew is read correctly even when selected inside a left-to-right document.
Unvocalized Hebrew - the normal written form - is disambiguated from context rather than guessed.
Gendered second-person verb forms are recognized, though English cannot carry the distinction across.
Modern Hebrew that mixes English technical borrowings with Biblical structures is handled without register drift.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Select Hebrew text in any app and Echoo reads it in the correct direction, returning left-to-right English that pastes cleanly back into a mixed-direction document.
Yes. Almost all real-world Hebrew omits nikkud, so Echoo resolves ambiguous spellings from surrounding context rather than requiring vocalized input.
Yes. Select Hebrew text anywhere the system lets you select it - Preview, Pages, Word, or a browser - and Echoo translates it in place.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 handles Hebrew root morphology and unvocalized text well, and keeps register stable across a passage.
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