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I have intermittent RSI and I've been using Talon for 1.5 years for programming (web) with intellij and spacemacs. I reckon I'm as productive as using my hands if I use only voice. When my hands don't hurt and i mix talon with my hands I feel i can do more than I could do with my hands alone. Thanks, lunixbochs. Talon is great.

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Can you give some examples of how you intermix the two? I'm curious in trying this out.

When using vim keys for example, to jump to the beginning of the line I press ^ then press 'dw' keys delete first word in a line. So I do the caret with my voice and the other press with my hand which is faster than doing it by hand alone.

Interesting, is that something you’d consider using the noise input for once I finish that? (As noise will be lower latency, you’ll have about 40 noises to map, and it’s “out of band” with speech)

Sure! Id love that. I only use one noise at the moment for mouse clicking (since I only know one sound). Could you point me to a video that shows an example of each of the 40 available sounds?

They aren’t available for use yet. https://noise.talonvoice.com is the submission collection site for the training data. Each noise there has a description and audio example. When they’re available you’ll be able to bind them just like voice commands.

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