Apple Dictation - Use in app

Question

Is there any way to utilize Apple's dictation voice to text abilities in native Apple application?

Answer 1

Your question is a little vague, it would be good to know what you have tried using or doing first, or eve what you are trying to achieve.

More commonly found is keyword recognition API. But a speech recognition API that can be used for this is Open Ears. Along with that is Ceed Vocal.

The first is free (Open Ears), but apparently Ceed Vocal give better results.

EDIT

If you want a speech recognition API for OSX, just use the NSSpeechRecognizer class.

The NSSpeechRecognizer class is the Cocoa interface to Speech Recognition on OS X. Speech Recognition is architected as a “command and control” voice recognition system. It uses a finite state grammar and listens for phrases in that grammar. When it recognizes a phrase, it notifies the client process. This architecture is different from that used to support dictation.

It is fully configurable to your needs.