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sveinbjornt / hear

hear

Command line interface for the built-in speech recognition and transcription capabilities in macOS.

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What it is

Command line interface for the built-in speech recognition and transcription capabilities in macOS.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-03-08 18:32:56 UTC to 2024-11-06 20:07:37 UTC.

0122022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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xpe·Nov 6, 2024
Its open source GitHub repo at https://github.com/sveinbjornt/hear Man page at https://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/hear.1.html > (Uses built-in macOS capabilities for transcription from audio to text.) Question (to self, currently researching)... Which capabilities? Released when? I ask because Apple Intelligence has expanded the use of audio transcription features. Answer: `hear` uses SFSpeechRecognizer [1] which has been available since macOS 10.15. I'm not yet sure how it relates to Apple Intelligence transcription services. Note: "speech recognition is a network-based service" which perhaps suggests Apple Intelligence (the marketing term, not an Apple Developer term, I don't think) uses it as well [1][ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/sfspeechrec...
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