How to use Apple's speech recognition?

Question

Objective-C

I found an interesting option for using voice control for my application:
www.engadget.com/2011/11/23/in-which-i-use-siri-to...
As I understand it, the author hides the standard keyboard, activates its voice input and parses the entered text.
How can I enable voice input programmatically without touching the button? How to mask the keyboard?

Answer 1

In general, if someone wants to stir something up - see here:
https://github.com/jojonki/iOS-googleTTS/tree/mast...

Answer 2

You are trying to do everything somehow wrong. This application will not be allowed into the store anyway, why then limit yourself to public Api. Look in the private api for the opportunity to interact with Siri (I'm sure they exist)
Here, for example, activating Siri

- (BOOL)activateVirtualAssistant{   
   if ([%c(SBAssistantController) preferenceEnabled]) { 
      if ([%c(SBAssistantController) shouldEnterAssistant]) {
          SBAssistantController *assistant = (SBAssistantController *)[%c(SBAssistantController) sharedInstance];           
          if (assistant.assistantVisible)   
             [assistant dismissAssistant];          
          else {
             [(SpringBoard *)UIApp activateAssistantWithOptions:nil withCompletion:nil];
             return YES;
          }     
       }
   }    
   return NO;
}

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