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by johnx5c 1584 days ago
Thanks for the recommendation.

I'm looking at Talon at the moment but I'm disappointed that it has no clear way to opt out of user metrics and the first thing it does on launch is download blobs from the internet without explanation. It's not clear if it even can work offline at all. For a program that listens to everything you say that is a bit disconcerting (especially in the context of sensitive work projects). I'd like to just pay for something and never have it connect online, bar manual updates.
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sterlind 1584 days ago
Talon doesn't need to be online at all. It also does not send audio or transcripts anywhere.. the telemetry can be disabled in settings, and it always prompts me to update on start but never automatically updates.

The blob it downloaded is probably the speech recognition model. I'd ask on the slack if you're concerned, aegis has worked really well with me.

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johnx5c 1584 days ago
> the telemetry can be disabled in settings

I searched and could not find it anywhere (v0.2.3).

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