Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

I would like to also recommend the app:

   hear (macOS speech recognition and dictation via the command line)

See: https://sveinbjorn.org/hear

(Uses built-in macOS capabilities for transcription from audio to text.)

Its open source GitHub repo at https://github.com/sveinbjornt/hear

Man page at https://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/hear.1.html

> (Uses built-in macOS capabilities for transcription from audio to text.)

Question (to self, currently researching)... Which capabilities? Released when? I ask because Apple Intelligence has expanded the use of audio transcription features.

Answer: `hear` uses SFSpeechRecognizer [1] which has been available since macOS 10.15. I'm not yet sure how it relates to Apple Intelligence transcription services.

Note: "speech recognition is a network-based service" which perhaps suggests Apple Intelligence (the marketing term, not an Apple Developer term, I don't think) uses it as well

[1][ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/sfspeechrec...

I thought I recognized the name of the developer! The person that brought us Platypus! Nice.

> which hear

> hear not found

macOS 15.1

Same, but there is the `say` command which you can cat a text file into and it will say it outloud

https://ss64.com/mac/say.html

Hear itself isn't a built-in utility.

> hear is a command line interface for the built-in speech recognition capabilities in macOS

Have you gone through the installation process? https://github.com/sveinbjornt/hear?tab=readme-ov-file#insta...

Someone needs to create a brew formula for `hear`.

I used Platypus to make my simple command line tools accessible to coworkers who considered the command line to be "too much" to learn. I've loved that app for close to two decades.