Sight-Free-Talon

Non-visually control your entire computer with voice commands. Uses the cross-platform Talon Voice dictation engine.

Intended to be universal for all abilities, but especially helpful for those with blindness, vision impairment, or eyestrain.

Provides functionality to:

• echo back dictated text as you speak
• use all standard Talon commands non-visually
• create your own non-visual voice commands using a cross-platform TTS library
• hook into system accessibility APIs (i.e. speak info on context switch of the mode, app, window, etc.)

This repository integrates with:

• screen readers
• text-to-speech
• braille

Usage

• Watch my demo video for a quick overview

  

• Official docs can be found on my website and are in active development

• All voice commands are found in the .talon files in each subdirectory and are scoped to each corresponding application or context

Installing

• Clone this repo into your Talon user directory.
• Clone the Talon community repository for general Talon commands
  • This is the sole OS-agnostic dependency of this project.

Note for sighted users: Please clone the entire repository. Any functionality that isn't relevant to you (i.e. screen reader support) will not impact your general Talon usage and each all settings are easy to change or override in a settings file.

OS Specific Setup

• Windows

  • Using NVDA:
  • Install the NVDA addon file from the repo releases page
  • If you do not want to install the addon, disable Speech interrupt for typed characters in NVDA settings to make sure typing text from Talon is not interrupted with every typed character.

• Mac

  • No extra dependencies

• Linux

  • Install spd-say to play standard tts.
  • Install piper to use the omnx model for more natural speech
  • run pipx install piper to install it (thus pipx is a dependency)

Contributing / Support

If you benefit from this repo, please star it on GitHub. It helps put more attention on an otherwise niche accessibility challenge.

I appreciate all contributions in any form. For more info read CONTRIBUTING.md. Feel free to reach out personally through the links in my bio if you have any personal inquiries regarding this repo.

Acknowledgements and Resources

See ATTRIBUTIONS.md