How to manually begin/end speech recognition with X11?

Having found speech recognition software that works well (see this question ), I'm still left with needing integration, in my case, an easy way to activate it. The outcome I'm looking for is: - Press a shortcut to begin dictation. - Press a shortcut to end dictation. - The result is typed out, as if I was typing it in from a keyboard. --- This is something I could probably manage using shell scripts (manually control an audio recorder, then use xdotool to type out the result). However solutions might already be out there, so I'm asking this question.