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by phkahler 1608 days ago
I would like to see Linux lead here. Have a standard voice interface where a voice-to-text process feeds a stream of text to the DE, which can then forward it to the active application (as text). I want this to be a separate "voice" stream so it is not confused with the keyboard. This would allow the eventual creation of a voice assistant at the system level, but also allow individual applications to adopt voice commands starting now. IMHO this should be like version 1 of the concept and it should last a while until we figure out what all is possible and which use-cases need a design change.

Simple dictation could be done at the DE level, where the VtoT stream would be diverted to the keyboard input of the active app. It could also be done at the app level, but this is one feature I think belongs a level up so it can be used by non-voice enabled apps.

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Who do you expect to actually work on this? Billion dollar companies can't get voice controls right. FOSS DEs struggle with keyboard/mouse input, let alone voice.