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Burhanuddin Sunelwala
Burhanuddin Sunelwala

Reputation: 5343

Dictation button outside the keyboard

Is there a way to perform dictation on click of a button outside the iOS keyboard. For ex: I have a UITextField with microphone button right. On the click of this button, it should open the same dialog/view as when microphone button is clicked inside the keyboard.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2478

Answers (2)

GoGreen
GoGreen

Reputation: 2251

I have been doing a research on this for a while now and could not find a solution for this yet.

You cannot trigger the microphone button outside the keyboard as in the native iPhone search bar in the home screen. This is a private API which is not available for development.

The best possible alternative is to use the Speech framework provided by Apple available in iOS 10.0+ and build your own custom UI to convert speech to text.

Hope this information helps! :)

Upvotes: 11

Anuj J
Anuj J

Reputation: 186

UITextField conforms to UITextInput Protocol ( under the section Using Dictation are methods of interest). In this protocol is a method dictationRecordingDidEnd that you can override.

One way is to subclass UITextField and implement the above mentioned method and any others of interest from the UITextInput protocol.

example subclass .h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface TextField : UITextField

@end

.m

#import "TextField.h"

@implementation TextField

-(void)dictationRecordingDidEnd {
    NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
}// done is pressed by user after dictation

@end

Upvotes: -4

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