Disable Dictation button on the keyboard of iPhone 4S / new iPad

Question

Ours is a health care app. We have a HIPAA-compliant speech recognizer in the app through which all the dictation can take place. The hospitals don\'t want physicians to acc

Answer 1

you can create your own keyboard and set the inputView for the text fields that will accept this dictation. then when they press any keys they will get your keyboard, therefore you dont have to override the keys on the standard keyboard, you will be able to customize the entire thing.

self.myButton.inputView = self.customKeyboardView;

here is an example of an extremely custom keyboard

http://blog.carbonfive.com/2012/03/12/customizing-the-ios-keyboard/

Ray also has a teriffic tutorial on custom keyboards.

http://www.raywenderlich.com/1063/ipad-for-iphone-developers-101-custom-input-view-tutorial

I hope that helps.