So... as you all know "Bring MacSpeech Dictate to front" only makes the Dictate menu items appear in the menu bar, but doesnt actually bring the status and available commands window out from hiding.
I created a command to have this done for me using the apple scripting of the show and hide commands.
Create a new command, name it Show Dictate (or Show MacSpeech Dictate), change the context to Global, change the type to Apple Script, and enter the following into the text field:
tell application "MacSpeech Dictate"
set show Status Window to true
end tell
tell application "MacSpeech Dictate"
set show Available Commands to true
end tell
Then click compile. Now when you say the command, it will present both the available commands window AND the status window.
You can also use do the same thing to Hide it by using Hide Dictate as the command name and the following as the applescript:
tell application "MacSpeech Dictate"
set show Status Window to false
end tell
tell application "MacSpeech Dictate"
set show Available Commands to false
end tell
That should work quite well!