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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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700 points yen223 | 4 comments | 06 Nov 24 05:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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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. hk1337 ◴[06 Nov 24 18:05 UTC] No.42066495[source]▶
> which hear

> hear not found

macOS 15.1

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2. dmix ◴[06 Nov 24 19:10 UTC] No.42067628[source]▶
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

3. avtar ◴[06 Nov 24 20:07 UTC] No.42068534[source]▶
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...

4. avernet ◴[06 Nov 24 20:24 UTC] No.42068766[source]▶
Someone needs to create a brew formula for `hear`.