Sveinbjörn Þórhallsson

I would like to also recommend the app: hear (macOS speech recognition and dictation via the command line) See: https://sveinbjorn.org/hear (Uses built-in macOS capabilities for transcription from audio to text.)

This is neat to see on Linux, it reminds me of Platypus on OS X [1], which in turn drew spiritual inspiration (that is, I don't know if the author of Platypus knew about these) from CLImax [2] and even earlier, Macintosh Programmer's Workshop [3] [4]. I don't know where MPW got the idea from, that just happens to be where I first encountered it. Thanks to user classichasclass in this thread for reminding me that the feature was called Commando in MPW. I'm curious if it originated with MPW. [1] https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus [2] http://www.storiesofapple.net/climax.html [3] http://www.storiesofapple.net/tag/mpw [4] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Macintosh-Programmer's-W…

If you want to build a simple UI on top of a script for Mac, I recommend Platypus: https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus The app has been around for years, is open source, and works really well.

Its open source GitHub repo at https://github.com/sveinbjornt/hear Man page at https://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/hear.1.html > (Uses built-in macOS capabilities for transcription from audio to text.) Question (to self, currently researching)... Which capabilities? Released when? I ask because Apple Intelligence has expanded the use of audio transcription features. Answer: `hear` uses SFSpeechRecognizer [1] which has been available since macOS 10.15. I'm not yet sure how it relates to Apple Intelligence transcription services. Note: "speech recognition is a network-based service" which perhaps suggests Apple Intelligence (the marketing term, not an Apple Developer term, I don't think) uses it as well [1][ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/sfspeechrecognizer

I use a tool called Sloth[0] for showing all the open files and connections of running processes. It does pretty much the same thing. Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to take a memory dump of TextEdit before I quit it while it was doing this. I'm gonna take your advice and not freak out, and try to prove that the behavior is benign. I think I'll just set up a shell script on TextEdit to alert if it ever opens anything inside /users, and watch it for awhile. I'm still pretty unhappy that it seemed to home in on scanning my tax returns, out of a folder with thousands of other things. The read pattern looked human-guided, like what you'd do if you were browsing around someone else's filesystem. [0] https://sveinbjorn.org/sloth

a very nice, open source, app that provides similar functionality but also shows open files is Sloth (https://sveinbjorn.org/sloth).

Sloth might help - https://sveinbjorn.org/sloth (It's been ages since I used Process Explorer so I'm just going off memory.)

For native Mac apps, there is Platypus that does something similar: https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus

Really nice. Reminds me of Platypus[1]. I don't really use GitHub but, if possible, please change the GIFs to MP4. Besides being sharper and way smaller, one can control the playback to rewind/fast forward. [1] https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus

Super cool. Reminds me of "platypus" - a similar tool I use frequently: https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus

Looks very similar to: http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus/ (http://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/PlatypusDocumentation.html#235) BitBar focuses on just the Menu Bar use case though, and does a more polished job than Platypus.

Similar workflow for Macs: http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus + http://mstratman.github.io/cocoadialog/ or http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/pashua/

I think Platypus will work for this on modern Macs. http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus

Similar GUI functionality in OS X can be achieved with cocoaDialog: http://mstratman.github.com/cocoadialog/ Comes in very handy, along with Platypus for wrapping shell scripts: http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus

Hm, is there a similar command for this on the mac (that is installed by default)? I looked around and this is all I could find: http://www.sveinbjorn.org/watch_macosx I have a bunch of while loops written in bash, but would prefer something cleaner.

see also - http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus