Earlier today, I had a brainstorm. Maybe I was just overthinking the whole custom Siri thing for third party apps. I didn't want to install a proxy server or jailbreak my iPhone. I just wanted to use Siri dictation to issue commands to my apps, and I wanted to do that without having to display a keyboard that took up 50% of my iPhone screen.
So I chatted with Steven Troughton-Smith about overriding the keyboard by setting its inputView to a custom toolbar, and then using a button to start and stop Siri dictation. This last bit, the custom UI (sorry, but I wanted pretty) is the only "hacking" per se involved here. Instead of overwhelming the screen, I link directly to UIDictationController and tell
