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Hello everybody,

I'm wondering if there is an option how I can trigger speech recognition via Python. The other way round (text to speech) seems to be pretty simple...

BR!

I'm not sure iOS allows that kind of thing. There is of course Siri, and you have the text dictation button on the keyboard, but other than that I don't think apps have access to the built-in speech recognition services.

@drscheme - Speech to text is built into every textbox when you use the popup keyboard. All you need to use it from Pythonista is build a ui with a textbox. Some apps seem to be able to avoid the popup keyboard and just place the microphone icon right in the textbox itself. That might be a nice feature to add to the ui module if it is possible. It might already be there for all I know :-)

Some apps seem to be able to avoid the popup keyboard and just place the microphone icon right in the textbox itself. That might be a nice feature to add to the ui module if it is possible. It might already be there for all I know :-)

That's not possible with standard iOS SDK methods. When you see something like that (e.g. in the Google app), these companies have their own infrastructure for doing speech recognition (often cloud-based).

Thanks for your replies so far.

An other option would be to record sound and send the file to a server and let this server do the s2t conversion. When I remember correctly, there are some Linux tools available.... But let me guess: we don't have access to the microphone as well, ... :)

You're right, this isn't possible right now (that might change though).