#UNINSTALLING SOUNDFLOWER MAC OS X HOW TO#
How to Remove the Enhanced Dictation 1. How do I use Sound Siphon with macOS' built-in transcription? Transcribe Audio with Apple’s Dictation Tools They can be found in /System/Library/Speech/Recognizers/SpeechRecognitionCoreLanguages/ with filenames like en_US.SpeechRecognition, ja_JP.SpeechRecognition, etc. For the latter, we will use CleanMyMac X the best cleanup tool for Mac. One is a manual way, and the other is an automatic one. There are two ways to uninstall SoundFlower completely from Mac. Remove the sound flower software easily with this tutorial. Try again later."), makes it all the more advisable to backup a copy of the Enhanced Dictation files once they are downloaded. How to uninstall Sound Flower from a Mac OS X machine. This regrettable change, coupled with an error message sometimes encountered in Mojave (" Dictation languages aren't available to download at this time. Therefore, all Dictation data (along with a slew of other information) is sent to Apple for processing: Mojave To uninstall Soundflower, delete Soundflower.kext from /Library/Extensions (and /System/Library/Extensions if present), sudo kextcache -prune-staging, and restart.īlackHole (FOSS), Sound Siphon ($49), or Loopback ($99) can be substituted for Soundflower.Įnhanced Dictation has been removed from Catalina. Press Fn twice in TextEdit to start converting audio to text
System Preferences > Accessibility > Dictation > uncheck "Mute audio output while dictating" System Preferences > Keyboard > Dictation > set "Dictation:" to "On", check "Use Enhanced Dictation", and set microphone to "Soundflower (2ch)". System Preferences > Sound > set both input and output device to "Soundflower (2ch)" MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave (Enhanced Dictation is not available in Catalina - see note 3 below) Convert audio recordings to text via macOS Enhanced Dictation and SoundflowerĬonvert audio recordings to text via macOS Enhanced Dictation and Soundflower # Environment