Talon Voice (tips & tricks)
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Michael Beijer
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United Kingdom
Local time: 17:39
Membro (2009)
Dutch to English
+ ...
Jul 21

Hi everyone,

Since I post frequently about Talon*, I thought I would create a special post dedicated to my journey learning to use it in my work as a translator.

My latest discovery is that "mixed mode" actually isn't what I thought it was all this time. I always assumed mixed mode had something to do with command mode & dictation mode, but never gave it much thought.

Turns out, (in the paid version of Talon) there are actually three modes:
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Hi everyone,

Since I post frequently about Talon*, I thought I would create a special post dedicated to my journey learning to use it in my work as a translator.

My latest discovery is that "mixed mode" actually isn't what I thought it was all this time. I always assumed mixed mode had something to do with command mode & dictation mode, but never gave it much thought.

Turns out, (in the paid version of Talon) there are actually three modes:

1. command mode: interprets everything you say as commands
2. dictation mode: interprets everything you say as running text
3. mixed mode: tries to interpret everything as a command first, then if it isn't recognized it inserts it as text like dictation mode

See: https://app.slack.com/client/T7FPSMV8F/later

To activate "mixed mode", all I needed to do was add some text (see below) to this file:

C:\Users\mbeijer\AppData\Roaming\talon\user\community\core\modes\modes.talon

Original version:

not mode: sleep
-
^dictation mode$:
mode.disable("sleep")
mode.disable("command")
mode.enable("dictation")
user.code_clear_language_mode()
user.gdb_disable()

^command mode$:
mode.disable("sleep")
mode.disable("dictation")
mode.enable("command")


Edited version:
not mode: sleep
-
^dictation mode$:
mode.disable("sleep")
mode.disable("command")
mode.enable("dictation")
user.code_clear_language_mode()
user.gdb_disable()

^command mode$:
mode.disable("sleep")
mode.disable("dictation")
mode.enable("command")

^mixed mode$:
mode.disable("sleep")
mode.enable("dictation")
mode.enable("command")


mixed-mode-Talon

As if my magic, I now have something very similar to Dragon, where I can just dictate longer pieces of text without having to say "Say" first, and if I say a command it gets implemented.

* https://www.proz.com/forum/speech_recognition/361417-is_openai’s_whisper_better_than_dragon.html + https://www.proz.com/forum/speech_recognition/368144-how_to_drastically_speed_up_dictation_with_talon_into_memoq_and_the_new_notepad_on_win11.html

[Edited at 2024-07-21 21:25 GMT]
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