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Voice command set for Talon, community-supported.

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Voice command set for Talon, community-supported.

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What Hacker News says

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SCdF·Dec 19, 2023

Talon is what I would describe as accessibility for programmers (my definition, not the developer's!). You effectively write software that replaces keyboard and mouse usage, generically, flexibly and programmatically. So when you write commands you bind them in different way: app specific[1], feature specific[2][3], OS-specific, hecking __programming language specific__[4] etc, and then talon mixes and matches all of that stuff together. So let's say I have VSCode focused on a javascript file . Talon knows this, and so I have "panel switch" which is a vscode specific command, and "op strict equal" to insert ` === `, but I also have generic text editing commands (because it's an editor), and multi cursor commands (because vscode has been tagged as multi cursor supporting), and tab commands (because vscode is a tab-based editor), and so on

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and so on. If I then switched to the browser I would keep the generic text editing commands, and the tab commands, as it supports both of those things, but I would no longer have multi cursor support (or JS commands), because my browser doesn't support that. This also means you can by and large use the same talon config (and so the same voice commands) on windows, mac and x11. So for me switching to windows is actually less of a pain because most of the ways I interact with my computer don't actually change, as talon abstracts that away quite a bit. [1] https://github.com/talonhub/community/blob/main/apps/vscode/... / https://github.com/talonhub/community/blob/main/apps/vscode/... [2] https://github.com/talonhub/community/blob/main/core/windows... [3] where vscode gets its features "bound" https://github.com/talonhub/community/blob/main/apps/vscode/... [4] https://github.com/talonhub/community/blob/main/lang/javascr...

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SCdF·Mar 10, 2023

Yep. So I've been working for about fifteen years, had it from the start, but it just keep on getting worse. So now have migrated to a no keyboard solution, and am working on a no mouse solution. My setup, software: - talon (https://talonvoice.com/), basing my configuration on the standard repo (https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon/), with some minor modifications. This is how I navigate my whole computer, and runs the voice recognition and eye tracking. This is how I'm typing this right now. There are also a bunch of other little system changes that you need to make (eg, on macOS, disable double space to type a period), which is documented by the community with varying levels of success. - cursorless (https://www.cursorless.org/), and then vscode. Before this I used Sublime Text for years and years, but cursorless is too good for cod

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ing. I know there are some projects on going to port it to different editors, but I haven't massively looked into it. - vimium extension for web browsing (works in both chrome and firefox). This makes things like clicking links easier with your voice, without having too use an eye tracker all the time. And then hardware: - DPA 4488 microphone -> DAD6001 microdot-XLR converter -> Shure X2U USB XLR interface. ~£800. It's a very expensive microphone, but it's what the developer of talon uses (same brand anyway), and since I'm using this for work I want to remove every obstacle to having my voice recognised correctly and quickly - Tobii Eye Tracker 5. ~£250. This is basically the only game in town. It works well enough but needs a lot of light. It also needs to be physically mounted to a monitor. In theory this means I don't need to use a mouse, but because I have a 34" ultrawide it doesn't work well on the edges, so I have a specific window size and location configured (say "layout mouse") which I could move apps into if I need to. - At some point soon I want to replace the X2U with something higher quality and more permanent on my desk. Soon!

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cube2222·Sep 4, 2022

The whole ecosystem around Talon[0] is fantastic. You'll probably want to start with [1] if it's your first time, it's a community-maintained talon config which is a good starting point for customization. The speech recognition engine built for it is great and the whole thing is free of charge, though I do recommend donating on Patreon [2]. Cursorless is a nice rethinking-from-the-ground kind of project. However, you can just as well keep using your current tools. I've used Talon on and off with Jetbrains IDEs when I had some wrist pain and the overall experience was great, with my coding speed being fast enough without much practice. When voice typing, autocomplete is also very useful, so the introduction of Copilot was an additional huge improvemet. But overall, the design of Talon, its config files, and the way this leads to very easy

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customizability, is really great. A bit like making your whole OS easily automatable and programmable (even if your OS isn't emacs /s). [0]: https://talonvoice.com/ [1]: https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon [2]: https://www.patreon.com/lunixbochs

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lunixbochs·Jul 2, 2021

> I can find literally nothing online, or even internally, about using Visual Studio with Dragon NaturallySpeaking My Talon project is capable of voice controlling Visual Studio, both at the interface level and at the code insertion/editing level. It can use Dragon as a speech engine, or my own engine. It has an existing Visual Studio integration, and Talon makes it easy to write your own context specific app commands or integrations. - https://talonvoice.com Here's some Visual Studio support for it: - https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon/tree/master/apps/vi... As well as vscode: - https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon/tree/master/apps/vs... Here are a couple of public GitHub issues about dictation support in vscode: - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/40976 - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/117980#issuecomme...

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lunixbochs·May 27, 2021

I edited the parent since you started writing this post, maybe re-read the parent as I preempted some of the questions upthread. For browser stuff, I'm actually really disappointed with how the "actions implemented in talon files" feature turned out in practice (which is the code-like action(...): syntax you saw), and I'm planning to deprecate it, which should clear that up a bit. Browser commands come from places like generic_browser.talon and tabs.talon. Looks like reload is "reload it" Besides the tips I gave and the chaosparrot practice, knausj_talon does also have a getting started section in the readme https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon#getting-started-wit... You can get significantly more insight into what's happening by both saying "command history", and opening the repl and running `events.tail()` in it. There's also a much

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more accurate speech engine in beta right now, which will be released soon, but I suspect most of the confusion wasn't accuracy related.

In Voice Assistant for VSCode

GordonS·May 27, 2021

I just had a quick try of Talon on Windows, using wav2letter (I don't have Dragon) and the recommended scripts[0]. It... doesn't work well for me at all. I was able to get a couple of simple commands to work in Chrome, sometimes, such as "reload" and "show history". In Visual Studio code, it just spouted a bunch of errors in the console [1], and in JetBrains Rider all it would do it type gobbledygook, like a cat had walked on the keyboard or something. Pretty dissapointing :( The logs also fill up with "WARNING actions: skipped because they have no matching declaration: (user.select_next_token)". It was a bit confusing to use too (apart from not really working, I mean!), as it wasn't clear if I had to use some kind of command to enable voice commands, or if it was litening all the time. Eventually I figured out that it seems to be the lat

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ter, but still, it's not clear what commands it has heard and understood - I found myself speaking and nothing was happening, and I had no idea what it had understood. Similarly, I'd say something like "close tab", and it would type some nonsense like "aa&" into the current file - again, no idea what command it was actually trying to use. [0] https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon [1] "No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\MyUser\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\vscode-port'"

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