hear
macOS speech recognition and dictation via the command line
hear is a command line interface for the built-in speech recognition capabilities in macOS. This makes it possible to transcribe spoken audio input or entire audio files.
Apple's macOS has long shipped with the say tool, a command line interface
for the operating system's venerable speech synthesis capabilities. As of
10.15 "Catalina", it also ships with highly capable speech recognition for a variety
of languages. This project is an attempt to provide a robust CLI for this functionality
since no such tool is provided by Apple. hear supports speech recognition of both
microphone input and audio files in a variety of formats.
Download
hear is free, open source software. The source code is freely available on GitHub under a BSD license. If you find this program useful, please make a donation.
- ⇩ Download hear 0.4 (Intel/ARM 64-bit, macOS 10.15 or later, ~50 KB)
The man page is available online.
Installation
After downloading and expanding the archive, change to the resulting directory and run the following command:
```bash install.sh
This will install the binary into /usr/local/bin and the man page into /usr/local/share/man/man1.