Ideally I would like to use 10.8's/Mountain Lion's dictation feature from Python, without a GUI. As far as I can tell dictation is currently only supported by using the UITextInput protocol, which implies a GUI (correct?).
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Is there any particular reason why you tagged this under python? Are you looking to with it in python? – ciferkey Aug 07 '12 at 18:54
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Yes, as I said in my question, ideally I would like to use the dictation feature from within Python. – John Wiseman Aug 07 '12 at 20:05
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Oh my bad I admit to skimming... – ciferkey Aug 07 '12 at 20:06
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You might also want to follow this related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11702804/how-to-use-dictationservices-framework – Anno2001 Aug 21 '12 at 10:26
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2I'm pretty sure `UITextInput` is how you use iOS's dictation feature from iOS, and has nothing to do with OS X, so you've been searching in the wrong place. – abarnert Sep 08 '14 at 04:57
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June 2015 -- Bump! Did you ever get anywhere with this? – P i Jun 19 '15 at 10:44
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Sorry to say I did not. – John Wiseman Jun 22 '15 at 18:43
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You can create a dummy text field and programmatically start dictating by emulating the keypress (tried out successfully here)
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@Anno2001 Can you give me a hint how to emulate the "fn" key press twice? – Lars Schneider Apr 01 '13 at 20:18
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I think you want the Speech Framework. SFSpeechRecognizer et al. I don't believe this requires a window session on macOS as this is part of AVFoundation, though I'm not 100% certain. Try it and see. :-)
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