#123 · Primary category： Speech & Audio
hear
Command line interface for the built-in speech recognition and transcription capabilities in macOS.
Project last updated：08/30/26
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BSD-3-Clause
Why we included this project
hear is a small command line tool that exposes the speech recognition Apple built into macOS, so you can transcribe a live microphone feed or process audio files in formats like WAV and MP3 without setting up a separate service. It uses the OS's own recognition engine rather than shipping a model, which keeps the download around 50 KB and the install to a single script. That makes it handy for quick meeting notes or pulling subtitles out of recordings, and it slots into shell pipelines without much fuss. If you work on a Mac and want a no-frills way to turn audio into text, this is worth a look.
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