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I've been doing more with voice commands on computer, and wanted to find an alternative to Microsoft voice assist. Talon goes way deeper than that though, you can use it as as ample dictation, but some more advanced users can basically do almost everything with just their voice and do stuff including launching apps , built on python, and it has it ton of amazing functionality. And especially great blessing for people that are older have problems with their hands, and combines nicely with a few other open source apache licence software

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Neat, but like others have mentioned, it's proprietary.

If you want an open source alternative, I believe the best option currently is Open Voice OS - which arose from the ashes of Mycroft.

https://www.openvoiceos.org/
https://github.com/openVoiceOS/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That looks pretty amazing, and it works with OLLAMA which is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Spyware until proven otherwise. Where is the source code?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Links to github are right there on the site

[–] JadedBlueEyes 10 points 5 days ago

Talon is closed source, What's available on GitHub is the community command set - effectively just configuration