iOS 13 has voice dictation button in UISearchBar in all system applications, which duplicates mic button on system keyboard and shows dictation view:
But when I create new project in Xcode, add UISearchBar, and run application on device, it doesn't have mic button on UISearchBar.
Is there a way to make my application show that mic button on UISearchBar?
You can set the search bar book mark item to be visible and then change the image to be an image of the microphone. Then you can programmatically use the search bar delegate method "searchBarBookmarkButtonClicked" to set your action for clicking on the button. This will trigger UISpeech to listen and analyze the voice. Make sure you have the correct info.plist properties "Privacy - Microphone Usage Description" and "Privacy - Speech Recognition Usage Description" set to ask the user for permission.
There is a UISearchTextField instance in the UISearchBar. You can set the textField.rightView to a view of microphone. In the microphone button handler, you do the the speech-to-text recognition.
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In iOS 13, Apple's own apps include mic buttons in search bars (for example, see attached image) that allow the user to begin voice dictation directly rather than having to first bring up the keyboard and start from there.
Is it possible to add the mic button to search bars in our apps, too? I cannot find any relevant API in UISearchBar or UITextField for this.
I have to show an Image highlighting the Mic icon in iOS keyboard saying "Tap here to speak". But the Mic icon won't be displayed if dictation is disabled in Keyboard settings.
My aim is to check whether dictation is enabled at the time of launching the app. If not, I want to show a prompt to Enable Dictation from "Settings>KeyBoard>Enable Dictation"
Is there any way to check whether dictation is enabled when the app is launched.?
Short answer is that checking whether the dictation is enabled is not possible.
Currently there are only few things that developers can play with in terms of dictation. They are defined in UITextInput Protocol. Sadly, what you're looking is not there.
What i am trying to do is:
Add one button (Microphone image) in toolbar.
On click of that button, the iOS default voice dictation should get call.
Query: I assume that we can not call default voice dictation but want to confirm.
Is their any workaround or any approach to call voice dictation on click of button in toolbar?
(The query is that dictation button (Mic) get display in keyboard
(for textfield & textview)& on click of that button(Mic) dictation
functionality comes to play, can we add similar button (like Mic) to
toolbar (for textfield & textview) & on click of button dictation
functionality should comes to play.)
Thanks
Dictation is only possible in a text field, and can thus only be started from the keyboard (afaik). It is also not supported for all languages, so it depends on what keyboard is active.
Those buttons are usually seen in chat apps, where they record an audio clip without translating it to text.
Is there anyway to programmatically press a button on the default keyboard for iOS?
For example, after something happens in my app, the keyboard will be visible. I need the program to automatically press or invoke the default action that the space bar would normally do on the keyboard, or the same thing to invoke the Microphone feature of the keyboard.
Is any of this possible?
I have this UISearchBar sits on top of self.view. With the default keyboard shown when it became first responder, I wonder if there's any way to pick up a touch event of the microphone button. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You are viewing this microphone icon because your iPhone dictation is switched on under Settings>General>Keyboard>Dictation or Settings-->General-->Siri.
I think you can use text input mode to identify which input mode is currently going on.
UITextInputCurrentInputModeDidChangeNotification
Reference - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputmode?language=objc