How to transcribe audio to text on a Mac - Free & 90% Accuracy

https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundf...

I’ll show you how to transcribe your audio to text on a Mac. And the way I used to transcribe my YouTube Audio to text is using Google Docs. There's a few issues with that lately I found that when I play a YouTube video and I actually try to use the speech or the voice to text feature of Google Docs it doesn't actually transcribe anything anymore. And the other thing is even when it did work there was all this interference within the room. If it was somebody on the phone or background noise like a TV could even be noise from outside like traffic. This would just make the text garbled and it'd be quite frustrating especially when you had a lot of audio to transcribe.

Now, I found a little hack. I've done it on a Mac and it's a driver call Soundflower. And rather than the audio coming out the speakers and then feeding back into your computer through the microphone, we are using this driver so that the audio from the source to the transcriber is exactly how it is. And it's works wonders for me. It's free and lets dive in and take a look at it.

I'm going to play the YouTube video on the left and on the right in Google docs I'm going to choose voice-to-text.

As we saw the Google voice typing just didn't seem to cut it. I didn't get any text at all. So now we're going into the preferences and choosing the Soundflower as the speakers as well as the microphones and we're going to give this another try.

We're not going to hear any sound this time and the reason is it's using the sound driver so nothing's going to come out of the speakers. But as you can see already there is a lot more information coming through. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to try and line up the audio to the video so that you can hear what it would be saying if the audio is coming up the speakers.

So as you can see the soundflower driver made a big difference to my results of converting audio to text.

We are now on a different computer this computer doesn't have Soundflower installed as I'm demonstrating through sound in the system preferences. I'm going to run through how to find an install this Soundflower driver as so that you can have this working on your system as well.

The person who is responsible for this driver is Matting Alls. We go to his github, you can scroll down and go to the latest release I'm using Catalina on this particular computer. Download the dmg file onto your Mac. Save that. I'm just going to chuck it into my desktop so I know where to find it. Now that's downloaded you can run it.

Something to be mindful here, because when you run this you will have permissions issues and you have to run it again so if you just double click on it you actually not going to be able to install it. So you have to right click and click on open, then it willl give you the option to open that program. Now when you go to install it is.. actually I have to type in my password here but I use a fingerprint. And it's saying it needs a security preference so I'm going to unlock the security and privacy that's just been popped up in front of me. I haven't clicked anything to get that. I'm going to click on it and I'm going to go back to the installation. I'm going to close it and I'm going to start it again the same way. Right click and click on open and this time it will go all the way through so that's the only little glitch. Well not glitche, it’s for security because it's not from the Apple Store or anything like that so that's a little work around there.

This takes a while to install. I've actually sped up the video to that. I had to wait for this install click on close and that's it. You're pretty much done and good to go.

I'm going to go into sound just to show you the difference. Now you can see the Soundflower 64-channel and 2 channel that's on the input. Go to the output, same thing 64-channel Soundflowers in there and you can also go to sound effects and we can also select Soundflower in there.

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