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> I would love to tell Windows to go take a flying leap but I can't because I need to use Dragon. What does Dragon do you for that Talon can't?

by maeil 3y ago

rickydroll 3y ago
Talon has advanced quite a bit since I last I looked but it looks like it still falls short. However, I will give it a trial run again. It looks quite useful if you need command and control. for general diction, not so much. To be fair, Dragon and other SR systems fail at speech driven editing. 99.9% of my dragon use is plane text dictation and when if the app is select-and -say enabled,edit and make corrections by voice. Speech commands as they are implemented are rarely useful mostly because there are too many of them to remember. Fortunately, my hands have recovered enough it is faster to type and mouse that it is to silently try to remember commands, construct what I want to say and then say it without stumbling or pausing then, undoing what was recognized, and trying again until I get it right. one thing I'd like to do is difficult; have the same command give the same results in different contexts. For example: say "make me root" and have the command recognize what machine on what network I'm connected to, sent the command "sudo su -<enter>" and then send the right password from my password manager without me having to type anything. example: tail [forever] <service log> work the same no matter what distribution, of logging method (syslog vrs journald) and priv level. if I need a sudo before accessing log data put one in and give it the password if needed without any action om my part. another should be possible is dictating into an app (like thunderbird) with text boxes and when focus is outside of the box, turn off recognition output. if you leave recognition output active outside of a text box then speech is typing hotkey commands from the letters in the words recognized. disaster example: hotkey-stroking your way through your email, phone rings, you forgot to turn your mic off. at the end of the all, you recognize your out-of-context recognition has destroyed your mailbox is and you have no idea how to recover it. The biggest thing is dragon is an out-of-the box solution. 15 mins (or less) install and I am dictating at high accuracy and a large vocabulary.

> I would love to tell Windows to go take a flying leap but I can't because I need to use Dragon. What does Dragon do you for that Talon can't?

by maeil 3y ago

> I would love to tell Windows to go take a flying leap but I can't because I need to use Dragon. What does Dragon do you for that Talon can't?

rickydroll 3y ago

Talon has advanced quite a bit since I last I looked but it looks like it still falls short. However, I will give it a trial run again. It looks quite useful if you need command and control. for general diction, not so much. To be fair, Dragon and other SR systems fail at speech driven editing. 99.9% of my dragon use is plane text dictation and when if the app is select-and -say enabled,edit and make corrections by voice. Speech commands as they are implemented are rarely useful mostly because there are too many of them to remember. Fortunately, my hands have recovered enough it is faster to type and mouse that it is to silently try to remember commands, construct what I want to say and then say it without stumbling or pausing then, undoing what was recognized, and trying again until I get it right. one thing I'd like to do is difficult; have the same command give the same results in different contexts. For example: say "make me root" and have the command recognize what machine on what network I'm connected to, sent the command "sudo su -<enter>" and then send the right password from my password manager without me having to type anything. example: tail [forever] <service log> work the same no matter what distribution, of logging method (syslog vrs journald) and priv level. if I need a sudo before accessing log data put one in and give it the password if needed without any action om my part. another should be possible is dictating into an app (like thunderbird) with text boxes and when focus is outside of the box, turn off recognition output. if you leave recognition output active outside of a text box then speech is typing hotkey commands from the letters in the words recognized. disaster example: hotkey-stroking your way through your email, phone rings, you forgot to turn your mic off. at the end of the all, you recognize your out-of-context recognition has destroyed your mailbox is and you have no idea how to recover it. The biggest thing is dragon is an out-of-the box solution. 15 mins (or less) install and I am dictating at high accuracy and a large vocabulary.