Live2Text

Live2Text converts speech to text using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text and displays the live transcription on the MacBook Touch Bar using BetterTouchTool.

📺 Preview

✨ Features

• Real-time speech recognition from any audio source
• Touch Bar display of transcribed text
• Selectable audio input devices
• Selectable recognition language
• Clean and embedded display modes
• Clipboard copy support
• Usage and performance metrics
• Background operation on macOS

⚙️ Requirements

• macOS
• Google Cloud account
• gcloud CLI
• Better Touch Tool

🚀 Installation

Using Homebrew

brew tap roboloop/tap
brew install live2text

Static build

Download from the release page.

Go package

portaudio required

go install github.com/roboloop/live2text/cmd/live2text@latest

🔧 Setup

1. Enable the Web Server in BetterTouchTool and note the listening port

2. Install the BetterTouchTool integration:

   live2text install [--args]

3. Start the background service:

   live2text serve [--args]

🐛 Known Issues

Issue: Audio device list does not update after changes
Solution: Restart the application

📌 TODO

• Add configuration file support
• Refactor CI pipeline
• Fix go test -race failures
• Add repository badges