Hands-Free Coding (with Talon)
see also
- Programming with chronic pain - rest is not going to heal shit, most probably. Stretching and working out the area will.
- Hands-Free Coding / HN
- Talon community
- Voice Control - talk to your computer (Dragon/Wav2Letter)
- Noise Control - click with a back-beat
- Eye Tracking - mouse where you look - r/EyeTracking
- Abusing Talon to use my eye tracker in a project - Support for Tobii Eye Tracker 5 in Linux
- Tobii) / Tobii 5 Eye Tracker - v5 not officialy supported on linux but still work with talon
- Pupil - open source / commercial hardware
- EyeCommander - open source ?
- Python Scripts - customize everything
# Demo
- using a Tobii eye tracker for mouse movement and Talon’s hiss+pop noise recognizers to click.
- overview of a software developer using Talon day to day (Emily Shea)
# Install
- Configuration (knausj85/knausj_talon)
- Speech Recognition Engine / Wav2Letter
- Testing out the basics Comes with all dependencies, just launch
./run.shand talk. - Emily Shea / her Talon config
# Slack
# Application Integration
# Browse Websites Without a Mouse
- Firefox Mouseless / Chrome Click by Voice
- h - Show “blobs” with characters
- Enter and Shift+Enter - Click blob or open in new tab
- Ctrl+Enter - Save the URL of the selected link to the clipboard
- k and l - Scroll up and down
- _ and + - Scroll up and down fast
- j and ; - Switch to the tab to the left/right of the current one
- J and : - Move the tab left/right
- Ctrl+j and Ctrl+; - Go back/forward in history
- Vimium
# Command history
Implemented in python
# Programing Feature
# Formatters
Try using formatters by saying e.g. “snake hello world,” which will insert hello_world
Mutliple formatters can be used togther, e.g. “dubstring snake hello world,” which will insert “hello_world”
Once you have the basics of text input down, try copying some code from one window to another.
After that, explore using ordinal repetition for easily repeating a command without pausing (e.g., saying “go up fifth” will go up five lines), window switching (“focus chrome”), and moving around in your text editor of choice.
# Ref
Written on November 7, 2020, Last update on March 16, 2025
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