TextEdit is the default text editor/word processor that is included in Mac OS X.įollow the instructions on the developer websites to get all of the software installed and working on your system. Once you have the software installed, the next step is to configure your Mac to use Soundflower for dictation. Audacity is a free application for recording and editing sounds. Soundflower is an application that creates a virtual audio channel and directs audio input and output to physical or virtual devices. The Basics of Configuring Your Mac to Transcribe. Read below for instructions on converting an MP3 audio file to a text document. It take s a bit of extra effort, but I have a nice solution that uses only a Mac and open source software. If you’re like me, you really want the original text more than a synopsis. That both saves on storage and makes future searches for that particular item simpler. But what I usually do is keep a link to the original source and text synopsis of the snippet. Sure I could save the source media file, if I had unlimited disk space. And sometimes, my ramblings bring me as far as understanding English meaning of some specific kikuyu translation texts.įrequently I want to save an audio snippet or video clip for future reference.
June 2017: a key component for these instructions is no longer actively maintained, so these instructions are no longer valid for Modern Mac configurations.
