Convert m4a to text

Is there an easy way to convert an m4a-file into text?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.6

Posted on Mar 21, 2024 1:52 AM

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Posted on Mar 21, 2024 9:45 AM

If you are running macOS Monterey or later, there is an Apple Shortcut action that is named Transcribe Audio and I have successfully transcribed .m4a audio to plain text and saved to a text file. If the original audio was created from multiple paragraphs, the transcription ignores the last punctuation mark in each paragraph and merges the content into one large paragraph block of text. This will make it challenging to discern the intended formatting from the original spoken content.

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Mar 21, 2024 9:45 AM in response to Ulodia

If you are running macOS Monterey or later, there is an Apple Shortcut action that is named Transcribe Audio and I have successfully transcribed .m4a audio to plain text and saved to a text file. If the original audio was created from multiple paragraphs, the transcription ignores the last punctuation mark in each paragraph and merges the content into one large paragraph block of text. This will make it challenging to discern the intended formatting from the original spoken content.

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