MacSpeech Dictate requires some voice training to get it to full efficiency, but once that is completed, you can dictate into any open application, and MacSpeech will convert your voice to regular text. At this time, MacSpeech Dictate costs $199. Use MacSpeech Scribe to convert recorded spoken audio to text. Choose Apple, System Preferences, Speech. Select the Text to Speech pane. Use the pulldown menu at the top of the Text to Speech pane to select a voice. The slider allows you to select the speaking rate that works best for you. To preview the voice and speaking rate, click on the Play button. Enhanced Dictation is available in OS X Mavericks v10.9 or later. With Enhanced Dictation: You can dictate continuously. You can dictate without being connected to the Internet. Your words might convert to text more quickly. You can use dictation commands to tell your Mac what to do.

1. Voice To Text For Windows 10
2. Voice To Text For Android
3. Speech To Text For Mac Os
4. Voice To Text For Hearing Impaired
5. Voice To Text For Computer

I love the text to Speech feature of Mac OS X. Since I'm not a native English speaker I'm very happy about all the additional languages added since Lion came out. However, I do use English as well as my native language (German). Changing voices is a bit of a pain. It just requires too many steps to be comfortable.

Is there any way to make this easy? I was looking for shortcuts, maybe a drop down menu somwhere up in the right corner, anything would be fine.

Since my search was not successful, I hope to find some advice here on SuperUser. Thanks a lot!

cuRoman

4 Answers

I have used FastScripts to assign a shortcut to this script:

You could also create a service in Automator:

There is a bug in 10.7 and 10.8 where the shortcuts for Automator services don't always work until you hover over the services menu from the menu bar. WorkflowServiceRunner can also use over 100% CPU while speaking text.

Another option would be to use UI scripting to change between two voices:

Voice To Text For Windows 10

Changing the SelectedVoiceID key in com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist also works, but I don't know how to apply the changes immediately.

Thank you very much Lauryi.

I have extended your UI scripting approach to work properly with german and english voices.The problem is, when your system language is not english, all non system languages are hidden (if not currently selected). You have to select: show more voices.. first to get to the desired language. My code lack a bit of elegance, but works. Here it is (updated):

Direct changes to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist are not really needed if you get the bash-script Voices which really adds all the command-line functionality you need.

Voice To Text For Android

An Apple Script to change the standard voice to Alex using Voices would simply look like this:

I do prefer the terminal, and instead of testing the polyglot menu-bar intrusion, I made this (admittedly simple-stupid) shell script (which uses voices) for my language-switching needs. With it, All I do to change the default language is to pop into the terminal to type speak swedish or speak french. This fits excellently into my workflow. I hope you can find a solution that fits yours.

I save it to my scripts as 'speak.command', chmod it +x, and add the appropriate alias to my .bash_profile to evoke it by typing speak.

Speech To Text For Mac Os

Voice To Text For Hearing Impaired

I Wrote a Status Bar Tool for that:

Apperantly it still works in Sierra

Voice To Text For Computer