sveinbjornt/hear
Command line interface for the built-in speech recognition and transcription capabilities in macOS.
This tool transcribes spoken audio into text on macOS, using the system's built-in speech recognition. You can feed it live microphone input or audio files (like WAV, MP3) and it outputs the transcribed text. This is ideal for researchers, journalists, or anyone who needs to quickly convert spoken words into written format on their Mac.
645 stars.
Use this if you need to convert spoken audio from your microphone or audio files into text directly on your macOS machine, without uploading data to external services.
Not ideal if you need to transcribe very long audio files or require advanced features like speaker diarization, as Apple's server-based recognition has character limits.
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645
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35
Language
Objective-C
License
BSD-3-Clause
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Last pushed
Feb 02, 2026
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