Numen is voice control for computing without a keyboard or mouse, and works system-wide on your Linux machine.
There's a short demonstration on: https://numenvoice.com
go is required. (It's sometimes packaged as golang)
The speech recognition library and an English model (about 40MB) can be installed with:
sudo ./install-vosk.sh && sudo ./install-model.sh
The dotool command which simulates the input, can be installed with:
sudo ./install-dotool.sh
Finally, numen itself can be installed with:
sudo ./install-numen.sh
dotool requires permission to /dev/uinput to create the virtual input
devices, and a udev rule grants this to users in group input.
You could try:
echo type hello | dotool
and if need be, you can run:
sudo groupadd -f input
sudo usermod -a -G input $USER
and re-login and trigger the udev rule or just reboot.
Once you've got a microphone, you can run it with:
numen
There shouldn't be any output but you should be able to type "hey" by saying "hoof eve yank" and transcribe a sentence after saying "scribe". You can terminate it by pressing Ctrl+c which is "troll cap".
If nothing happened, check it's using the right audio device with:
timeout 5 numen --verbose --audiolog=me.wav
aplay me.wav
and specify a --mic from --list-mics if not.
Now you can have a go in your text editor, the default phrases are in the
/etc/numen/phrases directory.
I use numen for all my computing and stick to keyboard-based programs like Neovim and qutebrowser, my text editor and browser. I also use a minimal desktop environment I wrote called Tiles that doesn't require a pointer device.
You can send questions, thoughts or patches by composing an email to ~geb/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht.
You're also welcome to join our Matrix chat at #numen:matrix.org.
GPLv3 only, see LICENSE.
Copyright (c) 2022-2023 John Gebbie