How Yiddish is written
Yiddish is spoken in Jewish communities around the world, historically Central and Eastern Europe.
Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet but, unlike Hebrew, spells out its vowels, using letters such as alef and ayin. Two spellings are common: the standard YIVO orthography and the one used in many Hasidic publications. Words from Hebrew and Aramaic keep their original spelling.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Yiddish text, up to 10 MB and DRM-free.
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PDFs need a text layer: a scan of printed pages without one has no text to read. Try selecting a line of Yiddish in the PDF: if you can copy it, there is text to read.
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Right-to-left text is read in its natural order; keep the file as Unicode text, as modern ebooks and word processors save it.
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No file? Paste a link to a web article and it becomes a book too.
From Yiddish book to audiobook
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Drop your file above, or choose it. It opens in seconds.
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Book2Speech detects the book’s language from its text. A short or mixed text in Yiddish can look like Hebrew. If the book opens with the wrong language, choose Yiddish as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Yiddish: play a few samples and choose the one that suits the book.
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Press play. Chapters, read-along text, speed, a sleep timer and your place synced between devices work as in every other language.
What Beta means for Yiddish
Yiddish is one of our Beta languages. Premium voices read it well, but the sound varies more from one narrator to the next than in our 42 main languages.
So play a sample with two or three narrators before you start a long book, and keep the one whose Yiddish sounds right to you.
Keep your Yiddish audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Yiddish books are narrated with Premium voices, so a download uses your plan’s Premium hours. Play it in Apple Books, any audiobook app or the car, offline.
Questions people ask
Can Book2Speech read Yiddish aloud?
Yes. Yiddish is a Beta language: Premium voices read it, and quality varies more by voice than in our 42 main languages. Drop a book and hear it in seconds.
Is Yiddish narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Yiddish book. After that, Yiddish needs a paid plan, from Listener at $4.99/month or $49.90/year. Standard voices, unlimited on every plan, read English only.
What if my Yiddish book is detected as another language?
Choose Yiddish as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Yiddish. It can happen when a passage looks like Hebrew.
Can I download a Yiddish audiobook?
Yes. Download audiobook makes one file with chapters, cover and book details (M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV), narrated with Premium voices from your plan’s Premium hours.