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Reputation: 1254

Speech Recognition on OSX

How can I use OSX's speech-to-text tools programmatically? OSX has offline "enhanced dictation" which essentially means that somewhere on my computer is all the data required to turn audio into speech. I would like to invoke these capabilities from an executable.

I have seen some AppleScript files essentially do this, but I can't get them to work on OSX.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 409

Answers (1)

rickster
rickster

Reputation: 126157

NSSpeechRecognizer is an API that provides access to the older "Speakable Items" functionality that's been around since before OS X (now called "Dictation Commands", and requiring Enhanced Dictation).

This is just a command interface, though — that is, you provide a list of commands, and it tells you when the user has spoken one of them. There's no public API for full speech-to-text dictation.

Upvotes: 2

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