Can I use OS X 10.8's speech recognition/dictation without a GUI?

Question

Ideally I would like to use 10.8\'s/Mountain Lion\'s dictation feature from Python, without a GUI. As far as I can tell dictation is currently only supported by using the U

Answer 1

I think you want the Speech Framework. SFSpeechRecognizer et al. I don't believe this requires a window session on macOS as this is part of AVFoundation, though I'm not 100% certain. Try it and see. :-)

Answer 2

You can create a dummy text field and programmatically start dictating by emulating the keypress (tried out successfully here)