AI case study — Speech AI

A fine-tuned Whisper model that accurately transcribes bilingual Hebrew–English sermons — handling the code-switching and cultural nuance that stock speech-to-text consistently gets wrong.

Whisper fine-tuningOpenAISpeech-to-textSummarization
reduction in word error rate after fine-tuning
The challenge

What we walked into.

A Rabbi needed accurate transcription and summarization of sermons that move fluidly between Hebrew and English. Off-the-shelf speech-to-text tools failed on the code-switching and lost the cultural and contextual meaning.

What we built

The solution.

01

Fine-tuned OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model on more than 10 hours of custom bilingual audio.

02

An AI pipeline that turns spoken sermons into clear, structured English summaries while preserving context.

The results

What changed.

01

Roughly 5× lower word error rate and 8× lower character error rate versus the base model.

02

Sermons become concise, culturally faithful English summaries — automatically.

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