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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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antononcube ◴[06 Nov 24 13:46 UTC] No.42062191[source]▶
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.)

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1. xpe ◴[06 Nov 24 14:34 UTC] No.42062871[source]▶
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...