How do I use Dictation with an iTunes file?

Question

I'm trying to produce typed text from an .mp4 file that I have in iTunes.  I read about Dictation but noted that:
Enhanced Dictation automatically stops listening when you switch to another window, or if you press the Fn key again, or when you click Done.
So when I open up a new Word document, press Fn twice and then go to the iTunes player window to start the audio file, Dictation will not record the text being spoken.
Does anyone know how to get this to work, with a workaround or something else?  I tried an interviewScribe app but that was completely worthless.

Answer 1

First, you're not declaring variables in XML. You're defining data in XML. What you're really asking is how to assign the value of an XML data element to a variable in Java.
Do do that you need to parse the file. Typically this is done by:
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.getInstance( );
DocumentBuilder parser = dbf.getDocumentBuilder( );
Document xmlDocument = parser.parse( new File( "C:\\MyXml.xml" ) );Now that you have an org.w3c.dom.Document object, you have to traverse the XML tree and get your value. The DOM implementation has methods for this, but I find it much easier to use the XPathAPI tools included with Apache Xalan, like this:
int baudRate = (int)XPathAPI.eval( xmlDocument, "Config/port/BAUDRATE" ).num( );For more information about Xalan, check out http://xml.apache.org/Xalan.
Of course, in order to use XPathAPI you must be familiar with XPath. XPath is a W3C supported standard, so it's worth learning. W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com) has some good introductory tutorials.
If you don't like XPath, then there's JDOM and other toolkits, but I'm not familiar with them.
Hope that helps,
- Jesse