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 0.6 (~50 KB, ARM/Intel 64-bit, macOS 13 or later, binary Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple)
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.