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TTS Arena Hebrew is a community-driven platform for evaluating text-to-speech models on Hebrew. Built and maintained by the ivrit-ai team, this arena lets anyone compare how well different TTS engines handle Hebrew speech — including mixed Hebrew-English text, formal language, conversational tone, and more.
This project is based on TTS Arena V2 by TTS-AGI and the Hugging Face team. We are grateful for their work in creating the original open-source arena platform.
Hebrew presents unique challenges for text-to-speech: right-to-left script, vowelless writing, frequent code-switching with English loanwords and brand names, and a relatively small speaker base compared to major languages. Most TTS benchmarks focus on English, leaving Hebrew underserved.
TTS Arena Hebrew fills this gap by providing a dedicated evaluation space where the Hebrew-speaking community can directly assess and rank how well different models handle real-world Hebrew text.
The concept is simple: enter Hebrew text (or pick a random sentence from our curated dataset), and two anonymous TTS models will synthesize it. Listen to both, then vote for the one that sounds more natural. Model identities are revealed only after you vote.
Built by the ivrit-ai team.
Based on TTS Arena V2 by mrfakename, Vaibhav Srivastav, Clémentine Fourrier, Lucain Pouget, Yoach Lacombe, and the TTS-AGI / Hugging Face team.
If you use TTS Arena Hebrew in your research, please cite both the Hebrew arena and the original:
We may store text you enter and generated audio. If you are logged in, your votes are associated with your Hugging Face username. Data collected may be used for research purposes.
The arena code is based on TTS Arena V2, licensed under the Zlib license. Generated audio clips may not be redistributed and are for personal, non-commercial use only.