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Is there any way to utilize voice to text for transcribing spoken word?

Is there any way to utilize voice to text for transcribing spoken word?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.2

Posted on Apr 16, 2023 6:52 AM

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Posted on Apr 16, 2023 7:31 AM

you mean like dictation? Dictate messages and documents on Mac - Apple Support

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Apr 16, 2023 8:49 AM in response to Meadowlarkag

And there is a Shortcut for that which requires Settings > Keyboard > Dictation is enabled and your audio source is either automatic or selected. Then, the workflow is as follows which when run will append your dictated text to a designated text file. You have the option to implicitly append dictated text, or overwrite the file if it exists.



When you run this Shortcut, it will open a window that captures your spoken word, before adding it to the output text file. The last action added will be the title of the Shortcut and you can click on that title field and change it. The Shortcut will autosave itself. I happend to have BBEdit installed for text, and otherwise, this probably will be Apple's TextEdit.



Although it is tempting to insert a detect language and translate from language to language to transcribe text into another language, I could not get that working in this Shortcut.




Is there any way to utilize voice to text for transcribing spoken word?

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