Google Translate Audio Input Question

[Robert4]

Hello,

Thanks for all the previous help.

Will try to explain clearly, but...

Have an imac, the desktop one with the mic
input for voice along the top edge.

I do sw listening, and if I put a small loudspeaker against
this mic input (that has the radio's audio), Google Translate
will quite well translate any foreign voice broadcasts to english text.
Neat.

But I can find no way to have Google Earth see the radio's audio output which is now ported, also, to the
imac (LAN) where other sw radio programs I have use it.

Tried all the System Audio settings that might/should allow doing it without using
this top mounted mic.

*Or, is this the only audio input Google Translate will accept (from the top mic input) ?

If there are settings I should use, any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,
Bob

 

[sahnert]

If I understand the question correctly, you want to route audio that is coming from your iMac - a software radio station - to Google Translate on the same iMac. Is that right?

If so you will need an additional piece of “loopback” software that will take the iMac audio output and allow you to route it to the iMac audio input

Blackhole is a free utility that can do this and Loopback by Rogue Amoeba is a pro utility that can do it as well.

So if you are using blackhole for instance you would set audio output on your Mac to Blackhole

This would send the sound of your radio software to Blackhole (in his case you will no longer hear radio from your speakers - can be fixed, see note)

Then you would set the audio input on your Mac to Blackhole so that applications, including your translator can hear the radio passing through.

Note: if you want to hear the radio at the same time, you would need to set up a multi-output or aggregate device in Audio/Midi set up, so that you can set the audio output to go to both Blackhole and Speakers, for instance. The app Loopback can do the same task more simply.