Receiving Text From Another Application

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Published on 2010-05-17T12:47:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 4:00 UTC
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Hi,

I'm building some home automation software with Cocoa/Objective-C. The main application will have a minimal GUI and will most likely be represented by a status bar icon only.

I'm using proprietary speech-to-text software (MacSpeech Dictate) that takes my voice command and converts it to plain text. I then need to send this plain text to my app for parsing. Is there a way to send a string to a Cocoa application? Could AppleScript achieve this? How would I make the NSString string in my app "available" to receive the passed string?

For reasons that are beyond the scope of this question - it is not possible to dictate the command directly into my app.

Many thanks in advance,

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