Requested behaviour
Please add a true push-to-talk global shortcut:
- Press and hold the configured shortcut to start listening.
- Speak while the shortcut remains held.
- Release the shortcut to stop listening and process the transcription.
For voice typing, an action such as “Push to talk, text to active window” would be especially useful. Speech Note should remain in the background or system tray throughout.
Current behaviour
Speech Note supports global shortcuts with toggle behaviour: one press starts listening and another press stops it. This is useful, but it is not push-to-talk.
Push-to-talk provides a clear microphone-activation boundary and reduces the risk of accidentally leaving the microphone listening. It also makes short dictation quicker and more natural.
The existing toggle behaviour should remain available separately.
Relationship to #112
This was previously mentioned in #112, which requested both toggle-to-listen and hold-to-listen.
That issue was closed after toggle behaviour was implemented in version 4.5.0. As far as I can determine, the hold/release behaviour was not implemented. This issue is therefore a narrowly scoped follow-up for true push-to-talk.
Suggested interaction
- Shortcut pressed: invoke the selected start-listening action.
- Shortcut released: invoke
stop-listening.
- Ideally support at least
start-listening-active-window; support for the normal and clipboard listening actions would also be useful.
- Continue supporting X11 and, where available, XDG Desktop Portal GlobalShortcuts activation/deactivation events on Wayland.
The current global-hotkey implementation already distinguishes activation and deactivation for at least one existing action, so similar handling may be reusable here.
Environment
- Speech Note 4.8.4
- openSUSE Tumbleweed package
- XFCE on X11
Requested behaviour
Please add a true push-to-talk global shortcut:
For voice typing, an action such as “Push to talk, text to active window” would be especially useful. Speech Note should remain in the background or system tray throughout.
Current behaviour
Speech Note supports global shortcuts with toggle behaviour: one press starts listening and another press stops it. This is useful, but it is not push-to-talk.
Push-to-talk provides a clear microphone-activation boundary and reduces the risk of accidentally leaving the microphone listening. It also makes short dictation quicker and more natural.
The existing toggle behaviour should remain available separately.
Relationship to #112
This was previously mentioned in #112, which requested both toggle-to-listen and hold-to-listen.
That issue was closed after toggle behaviour was implemented in version 4.5.0. As far as I can determine, the hold/release behaviour was not implemented. This issue is therefore a narrowly scoped follow-up for true push-to-talk.
Suggested interaction
stop-listening.start-listening-active-window; support for the normal and clipboard listening actions would also be useful.The current global-hotkey implementation already distinguishes activation and deactivation for at least one existing action, so similar handling may be reusable here.
Environment