ideasman42
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1 year ago For cases where start time is very slow, there is now the capability to pause & resume the process (which shuts down and starts audio recording).
As for playing a sound, I think it makes more sense for the user configuration to handle this. We can support functions nerd_dictation_setup() & nerd_dictation_teardown() which run on start/exit. You can then add whatever you like in those functions.
Hello, Thank you! Been a long time since I first played with IBM ViaVoice for linux...wow, things have improved. Simple keyboard macro to start/stop nerd-dictation and I'm no longer typing...now I'm talking away...
Using an old computer, loading the voice model and actually starting to listen takes a while. On the small 50MB model, it's nearly instantaneous. On the 120MB+ models, there's about 7 or 8 seconds before what I say gets typed. (Can only imagine what one of the GB models takes...)
My keyboard macro speaks a phrase "transcribing" (via espeak) right before it starts nerd-dictation and plays another phrase "fingers in ears" right after nerd-dictation is killed.
I'd like nerd dictation to have a configuration option to play a sound bite once it's actually ready to dictate. Say something like --readyPhrase staring.mp3.
That way I could hit my keyboard macro, and hear "Starting"... (This would eliminate my current macro saying something like "transcribing" prior to starting nerd-dictate...but would still require my macro to say something like "fingers in ears" when stopping. I really neead the --readyPhrase, not so much the --stopPhrase though you could throw that in for consistency.)
ps- I'll look into suspend/resume as faster start/stop options but really like to run progs when I need them and not leave them running in the background.
Thanks!