Talon is a wonderful piece of technology, and it's already had a huge positive impact in my life, but I think there's so much potential and opportunity ahead. In fact, I'd say that this whole cottage industry is pretty new. It took years to become proficient with a keyboard, so I'm still very early into my journey with dictation. So far, I've shared only the tip of the iceberg of what I've learned, and what I've learned is only the tip of an even-bigger iceberg-Talon is a really powerful tool, and I'm still figuring it out. If I wanted to write the number 1000, I would say one zero third, to repeat the 0 character 3 times.

Surely, 'go left nine' would be more intuitive, right? But nine is already taken it outputs the literal number 9. If I wanted to go left by 9 spaces, I would say go left ninth. In Talon, they're used to repeat commands. In English, an ordinal number is one used to describe order, like 'fifth' or 'ninth' or 'three hundredth'. This would be really tedious if not for one awesome addition: ordinals. If I want to move the cursor left, I say go left. If you're unhappy with any of the mappings, by the way, everything is editable in Talon.Īrrow keys are prefixed with the word 'go'. control command space will open the Emoji drawer on MacOS, since that's the OS-level mapping.Ĭertain keys are mapped to shorter/cuter terms.

command cap, for example, will hold command while pressing the C key, to copy to the clipboard. Talon has intuitive mappings for most special characters.

Mac speech to text word commands