Voice input for Powertoys Run

Ivanturas commented 2 years ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

A voice to text engine could be implemented in order to parse voice commands into Run.

It could be configurable in different ways:

Default listen behavior setting:

Listen off by default (basically no change to what it is now)
Listen on by default

Mic button:

Push to talk
Click to toggle listening (just like above setting, but in the actual dialog

Scenario when this would be used?

Let's say this: we want top efficiency. And as super fast typists, we enjoy doing it ~~a quarter mile~~ a thousand keystrokes/sec at a time... but sometimes we're deep into some other typing stuff. So we just strike a single key (or a key combo if you haven't set up key replacements/bindings/macros... you monster!) and just say what we want.

Not a virtual assistant, no extra smarts and AI and stuff that would take forever to implement... just the same functionality it has, with an added STT thingy.

*clack*
- "Spotify"
*gets ready to roll with some halo soundtrack*

Supporting information

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franky920920 commented 2 years ago

Duplicate of #4931

franky920920 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for your suggestion! This issue is a duplicate. I'm linking this issue to #4931 to centralize the discussion thread, please go to that thread for discussion.

Thanks for your help to make PowerToys a better piece of software!

Ivanturas commented 2 years ago

Heh... searched before posting, yet I still missed it! Thanks.

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