[Development] Dictation Issues with Qt-built software

[Morten Sorvig]

> On 1 Nov 2016, at 09:41, Robert Iakobashvili <coroberti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Qt-Management and Developers,
> 
> People cannot dictate to Qt-software at Mac as filed:
> 
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-56811

Hi, 

I see two possible ways to solve this:

1) Add cross-platform speech-to-text capabilities to Qt’s text input classes.
This would be implemented using native API such as NSSpeechRecognizer, or an
open source speech recognition library bundled with Qt. The behavior we get from
this option may not be exactly native.

2) Use NSTextField in Qt applications. This gives us the exact native behavior,
for speech recognition and everything else, including future NSTextEdit features.
However, NSTextEdit would integrate on the QWindow level, and not for example
as a Qt Quick scene graph item.

Neither of these are straightforward, which is one reason why the bug remains
open.

> 
> The very reason to bother you and write this email
> is because a similar previous dictation related issue at Windows filed in 2014
> is still pending without being resolved:
> 
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-43046

This is an iOS (not Windows) bug. Also worth looking at though :)

In general a good way to improve and maintain the accessibility implementation
in Qt would be to give it a second user. UI testing and automation comes to
mind as a good candidate.

Morten