![]() It's very easy to operate with no buttons or switches, just two standard RCA connectors on the analog side and a USB type-B plug on the digital side giving 24-bit 96 kHz audio.Ī possible issue might be no gain control. However, at home I'm using an extra USB power supply (AQVOX). The unit is small and portable using USB power. The unit is not among the cheapest but fits in somewhere (hopefully in the upper end) below professional gear. The data transfer is asynchronous giving 24-bit/96 kHz 'jitter-free' sound. It uses Audio Class 1.0 drivers that is native on all modern operative systems. I guess Apple doesn't want to have audio loopback built-in to avoid people recording copyrighted audio but a built-in transcription service by setting system audio as dictation source would be useful and helps accessibility for deaf people.I have been happy using the HRT Linestreamer+ since 2013. The system audio has to be kept from muting during dictation e.g by enabling voice control: Pressing stop dictation will transcribe the audio. With the audio looping back by selecting BlackHole in the dropdown for dictation in keyboard settings and input/output in sound, with something like TextEdit open, press the start dictation button on the keyboard and have a Youtube video playing in the background. The page for BlackHole says to setup a multi-output device to be able to listen and loop the audio back. The Audio Hijack devs have an app for this too: There's an installer on the page and after install, it shows up as an input/output source in sound settings. There's a replacement for the old SoundFlower audio router here: ![]() With some work, I've been able to route the text into an application of my own, and let my application "listen" to the text words and take appropriate action. It can be used either to control things on the macOS screen, which is interesting, or to enter words into an application, such as dictating text into Apple Pages. It's called Voice Control and can be enabled in the System Settings under Accessibility. How do I use apple's transcription? I didn't know that existed. Which is something I can't say about Apple. ![]() Their website says they want our feedback, and so that suggests that they may take some of our feedback. And I opened a ticket with them to ask for more features in this regard. I've done it, but it's tough, and suffers from some issues, because it wasn't designed for that.Īudio Hijack doesn't quite suffer from the same problem as Apple here, but Audio Hijack's Transcribe Block still doesn't have the options it needs to send the data into another program in real time. Why should a phrase that I speak once be entered into the output twice, in different locations?Īpple's transcription, which is built into macOS, is far more accurate, (maybe 99%?) but the problem it has is that it's very difficult to transfer the text coming from Apple's service into an application. ![]() And not just wrong, but the same phrase can be generated twice into the same sentence, separated by other words. About 10% of the words, probably more than that, are wrong. Anything I criticise could be fixed soon. It's only in "beta" (the article doesn't mention this) so any criticism (from me) has to keep that in mind. ![]()
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