Talon – scriptable voice/gaze input

talonvoice.com

87 points·auscompgeek··11 comments

The videos are pretty incredible, much smoother than I would've thought.

Here's he playing Slay the Spire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6_fdMtmv6c

This is a lovely overview of a software developer using Talon day to day - https://www.deconstructconf.com/2019/emily-shea-voice-driven...

That was impressive.

Here’s her Talon config:

https://github.com/2shea/talon_configs

Disappointed by the somewhat sparse documentation and it's not open-source.

Certainly looks interesting, and seems he has 384 patreon supporters so there's definitely something there.

It’s a niche tool for people with disabilities... but that’s not to say you can’t use it being fully able.

There was an HN post from a hacker about being a software engineer while having a degenerative muscle condition that makes it hard to type.

I’m tempted to support just to get the full version.

Here’s the HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846887

I used this software for a few months, and it was very nice to work with

i installed it but it says "no eye tracker found", which... defeats the _entire_ purpose of this application for me. is there a complex setup process?

Well you do need eye tracking hardware for it to work. I think the recommended hardware is the Tobii 4 or 5

oh.. i assumed it was using the webcam.

Very cool. Wish it were open source though.

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