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Looking for a voice command/macro program (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by squid_slime@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Basically as title states.

In need of software that takes simple spoken words/sentence and runs a macro

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[–] Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

while I was writing this comment I came across this: LinVAM which sounds like exactly what you are looking for. But, if that doesn't work out for you here's what I was originally writing:

Voice Attack may fit your needs.

BUT

it's not Linux native.
It's not free.

However, my research does suggest that it works in Linux via proton/wine, and so it may serve your needs since what you've described is basically exactly that software's whole purpose. It's popular for adding voice control to games by mapping voice commands to game controls.

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i am sure LinVAM works great but i am on wayland so will have to give it a miss, also voice attack is a goto but i am unable to find how to use it in linux, theres a reddit post but deleted

[–] Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's available on Steam, so you could get it there and run it through Proton. I don't know how well it works there like that, but if it doesn't work you could refund it.

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't work sadly as voice attack has two ms dependency's that proton can't satisfy

[–] Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Do you know what those dependencies are? They may be installable using protontricks, or manually via wine into the prefix if that doesn't work. I have had some luck doing that for other software in the past that required dependencies that weren't satisfied.

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I found KDE Simon, and Numen ... I've only ever used a commercial product, Dragon Naturally Speaking, many years ago. It was used so I could speak instead of typing texts but it did have functions to assign commands as well - don't think it worked on Linux though.

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

For speech to text I also found Speech Note (not to confuse with Speechnotes, some similar thing from a different team I believe)

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Rhasspy might be a part of the solution you're looking for, at least.

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Nerddictation is pretty great