Navigate to Dictation preferences in the control panel You will want to make three modifications to direct recorded audio to dictation.
Download soundflowerĭictation, similar to SIRI, uses voice instead of typing text for OS X Mountain Lion. Soundflower is free, open-source, and runs on Mac Intel and PPC computers. It presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed. Soundflower is a OS X system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Audacity (output) -> Soundflower -> Dictation (input).So at a high level, audacity will output audio to enhanced dictation while using soundflower. If we combine Enhanced Dictation feature in MacOS X 10.9 (Mavericks), with Audacity and Soundflower it can easily be integrated. Where it gets tricky is most talk to text software programs require you to speak through a microphone and there is not an obvious way to route speech from a recorded file to the program that converts it. The challenge is most content recorded is done without being planned, organized, or rehearsed. For authors, this means providing a transcript, subtitles or close caption so that the hearing impaired get the same context of the audio. One way to make your podcast, screencast or online video more accessible is to convert it to text.
