Hi Sarah,
here's another article.
Jan 23rd 2012 at 6:30PM
Avatron is a company well known for their iOS and Mac utilities. We are
particularly fond of their Air Sharing apps and Air Display, among others.
They have a reputation for building solid, reliable products. I could sense
the dismay in CEO Dave Howell's message when he pinged me today to let me
know that Avatron would be pulling their Air Dictate app.
In order to comply with App Store rules, Air Dictate used a little trick to
hide the standard keyboard while offering one-button access to Siri
dictation functions. This is distinct from the non-App Store-safe approach I
wrote about on Thanksgiving.
Howell explained, "What we did was to hide the keyboard and text field
entirely. We did that by putting another view in front of the keyboard
window. When you press our big Start Dictation button, we map that to a tap
on the little microphone button. But how? There's no public method to change
the location of a tap event to some other location. The solution to that was
the clever part of Air Dictate. We actually changed the position of the
keyboard window so that its mic button is directly under whatever point you
tapped. Then we move it back again after the event has passed through. Same
thing for the Done button."
The app relied on interface assumptions that could possibly change without
warning in future Apple updates, or could vary with international keyboard
layouts. This caused a point of conflict with Apple review. "The cold hard
fact is that every update of iOS is likely to break all of our apps for one
reason or another," Howell said. "Sometimes new Apple bugs, sometimes
intentional changes to their frameworks. You don't have to break any rules
for your apps to be broken by an iOS update!"
Apple further proposed that Avatron discard their custom interface, which
was both eye-catching and streamlined, and ask users to locate and tap the
microphone button directly. "Apple's suggestion was that we should throw
away our custom interface (sacrificing its convenience for the blind and
disabled, who would have trouble tapping the tiny mic button), and just
throw up a standard keyboard. We don't want to do that so we're not planning
to release any more updates to Air Dictate."
RIP Air Dictate.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Alawami" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: SIRI on the Mac?
There is a program I think called air dictate but I'll the to find the
article as I lost it. It uses Siri to dictate to your mac.
Take care.
On May 13, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Red.Falcon wrote:
Hi there!
Well I'm only guessing but I think Apple might be trying to head that
way!
I think they want the star trek type of computer!
We will see what the future holds!
Warp 10
Colin
On 13 May 2012, at 18:39, Ian McNamara wrote:
Hi, as far as I know there is nothing like that for the mac.
Ian McNamara
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