My app allows users to transcribe and translate audio from other apps running on your Mac. I currently use ScreenCaptureKit to do this, and just ignore the video stream and only use the audio stream. This works, but it's awkward because it requires I ask users for screen recording permission, even though all I want is the audio, not the screen. Is there a better way to do this in modern macOS releases? Thanks!

In the keynote (or maybe SOTU) they demo'd a new text dictation system. I'm wondering if this is being added to the Speech framework as a new transcription mechanism available to 3rd party apps. I couldn't find any videos referring to updates to the Speech framework.

In the keynote (or maybe it was SOTU) they demo'd a new more expressive Siri voice. Is that voice going to be available to 3rd party apps to use for text-to-speech in our apps?

I make a Mac app where users can transcribe and translate audio from other apps. I want to bring this to iOS, and I'm wondering what APIs are available (if any) to do this. On MacOS I use ScreenCaptureKit currently, but that's not available on iOS.