Option to stop listening after a while

[synox]

I wish hear could stop automatically, instead of staying active. Maybe when there is no more input for 3 seconds, or when reaching a user-defined text length?

In my simple game, the user has to say back the word.

    say --voice="Samantha"  -- "$word [[slnc 400]]" 
    response=$(hear --mode)

    shopt -s nocasematch
    if [[  "${response}" == "${word}" ]]; then
        echo ✅ $word
    else
        echo 🛑 wrong. ➡  $word
        echo " - press enter for next word -"; read
    fi

However pressing CTRL-C to stop the listening it stops the script instead.

Also for scripting, the ESCAPE-DELETE control characters get into the way. A plain text output when the program is complete would be preffered. The --mode output looks like this


Good

Good morning

Workarounds:

• stop after 4 seconds: response=$(timeout 4 hear --mode)
  • clean string: response=$(echo "$response" | sed 's/.*\[2K//g' | tr -d '\r\n')

[sveinbjornt]

It's a cool idea, I'll look into adding it.

[sveinbjornt]

I have added an exit word option, i.e. if you run "hear -x 'quit'", the transcription session will end as soon as you say the word 'quit'. That might help with your use case.

[sveinbjornt]

Btw, as for control characters, they are only emitted in single-line mode, which is intended for presentation in a terminal client. Omit the "--mode" flag if you don't want them.

[synox]

Thanks!