
Siri does have a voice-to-text feature, but it only works with native applications like Mail and Messages. The tool, known as Dictation, lets you use your voice to type pretty much anywhere on your computer - which Siri can't do. Conveniently, Mac has another voice feature that fills in some of the holes that Siri leaves behind - including voice typing. With just my voice I can quickly search through hundreds of documents for a single file or check for free disk space if I'm running out of storage, but the intelligent personal assistant does have its limitations. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.I hardly ever use Siri on my iPhone, but boy, oh boy, do I take advantage on my Mac. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" ANDĪNY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors mayīe used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific Materials provided with the distribution. List of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this List of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,Īre permitted provided that the following conditions are met: BSD LicenseĬopyright (c) 2022-2023 Sveinbjorn Thordarson

This should automatically open the binary with the regular terminal and prompt you to allow the required permissions.

If running the binary leads to an abort signal, try running the binary by right-clicking, and selecting open. (Intel/ARM 64-bit, macOS 10.15 or later, ~50 KB)Īfter downloading and expanding the archive, change to the resulting directory and run If you find this program useful, please make a donation. Hear is free, open source software written in Objective-C. Transcription of both microphone input and audio files in a variety of formats. This project is an attempt to provide a robust CLI for this functionality As ofġ0.15 "Catalina", it also ships with highly capable speech recognition for a variety This makes it possible to transcribe spoken audio input or entire audio files.Īpple's macOS has long shipped with the say tool, a command line interfaceįor the operating system's venerable speech synthesis capabilities.

Hear is a command line interface for the built-in speech recognition capabilities in macOS. MacOS speech recognition via the command line
