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		crabl on Sept 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020) The closest I've managed to this has been through AppleScript (which likely violates your "no accessibility tools" criteria): https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/type-to-siri/13328/17

etaioinshrdlu on Sept 12, 2021 [–]

Yeah, I guess another requirement, it should be as "invisible" as possible. So you could programmatically interact with Siri in the background and perhaps not notice.

wazzaps on Sept 12, 2021 | [–]

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