As we all know, OS X has fairly good speech synthesis/recognition capabilities; however, the real good news is that these resources are actually there, open for any developer to use them. If you have the developer kit installed, there are a number of great manuals and examples of the kind of things you can do —> /Developer/ADC Reference Library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Speech/index.html
You can, for example, specify the words that your application will interpret as commands: (void)setCommands:(NSArray *)commands
Other basic routines to get you started are:
(void)startListening
(void)stopListening
(void)speechRecognizer:(NSSpeechRecognizer *)sender didRecognizeCommand:(id)command
As you see, it’s not that hard and most of them are self-explanatory.
The cool thing about being able to specify the commands you’ll be expecting, is that you can go a lot further than just accessibility -which tends to be the main practical application that OS X uses this for.
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