Mac options?

[d...@schori.org]

Hi,

I currently use Aenea on an Ubuntu laptop and am pretty comfortable with that setup (I use a Windows 10 VM).

I'm going to need to start programming on a company-provided Mac laptop soon. I'm wondering what the options are for Mac, now that Dragon is no longer offered by Nuance for Mac. Can I run Aenea, as I do on Linux, with a Windows VM and just set up the server similarly to receive "key presses"? I recently realized that Aenea might be possible on a Mac since MacOS is a *nix variant. (I have very little Mac experience, so feel free to point out anything that might seem obvious to you.) And if not Aenea, what other Mac options are available these days?

Thanks,

Seth

[daa...@gmail.com]

I've never used Aenea, so I have no info there. However, for what it's worth, I've developed a free and open source Dragonfly backend that runs cross platform, and Dragonfly has added Mac actions as well.

https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar

[mike.rob...@gmail.com]

Talon (https://talonvoice.com/) has a speech engine for mac and can also run against dragon in a windows VM.

[Matt Z]

> Can I run Aenea, as I do on Linux, with a Windows VM and just set up the server similarly to receive "key presses"?

You should be able to, yes. So long as something, Windows vm or otherwise, is sending the correct RPCs. 

>  I recently realized that Aenea might be possible on a Mac since MacOS is a *nix variant. 

Little/none of the x11 server will be useful for OSX. There is a separate server implementation for OSX here:
https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/aenea/tree/master/server/osx

The OSX server may need some love as it hasn't been updated in 2ish years. That said, there's no reason it wouldn't work! 

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 3:12:39 PM UTC-5 d...@schori.org wrote: