Audacity 2.1.1., OS X 10.10.4
Indeed, I’ve already tried leveluplunch link. I’ve done every step accordingly (I hope ), incl. e.g. starting playing the audio in Audacity before pressing Fn twice in the text editor.
None, if you are following the instructions in both links correctly. What you are doing is not a supported use of OS X Dictation. Have you asked on the Apple forums about it?
Have you tried playing the audio in QuickTime then putting an external mic by the speakers? Or playing the file on an iPod/IPhone and setting Dictation to record from the internal mic?
Then obviously it should work, if the audio is playing loud enough that your microphone can hear it.
What type of mic are you using (make and model number)? Or are you using the Mac’s internal mic?
Have you got normal Dictation to work (speak some words into your mic and look at the words appearing in the text editor)? If not, that is probably what you want to fix first and Apple should support you with that.
It works fitfully for me in Chrome on Windows 7. It does not recognize all the words and there is a variable and sometimes long wait for recognized words to appear.
What file are you trying to turn to speech? Can you not buy the printed book or PDF?
audio to text with Audacity/Soundflower/Pages had worked before and stopped, and that did it. There are two terminal commands for Yosemite to disable muting, more at the bottom of the askdifferent post. ran those two and it worked again. I assume that some system update had reintroduced muting. thanks!
also, Pages does a much better job at transcribing than TextEdit.
You can just use audio to text converter Audext [Link removed by moderator] .
It is actually a paid online tool, but there are 30 free minutes, so if your audio isn’t so long, you can try it for free.