dragonfly scripts

dragonfly scripts for controlling your Windows operating system by voice

Environment

I do all of this work on Windows 10 using DNS 14.0, Natlink 4.1 papa, dragonfly 0.6.5 and Python 2.7.6.

Applications frequently used with voice:

• Visual studio
  • using a vim extension
• Neovim
• Chrome
  • Copying stack-overflow answers: stackover co-en
  • Vim-bindings: vimium
• Adobe acrobat reader (for PDFs)

If this is your first time installing dragonfly and Natlink, I recommend https://sourceforge.net/projects/natlink/files/pythonfornatlink/python2.7.zip/download to install the needed dependencies (not all of them can be fetched via CLI).

Previously I used Linux and a Windows VM, however, the delay of the VM and Aenea was inconvening.

Status

I can write simple programs but it takes a long time. I very much appreciate feedback whether its a bug report, question, suggestion or anything else!

Usage:

The jist of the useful code is in the grammars repository. You can copy whatever commands you like to your own project.

_import_grammars.py handles imports for me, rather than letting Natlink do it. The only difference is that my grammar files/rules per default will not install themselves as executable dragonfly grammars to DNS or Windows' speech engine. Thus, they have to be added explictly using import_grammars.py or a solution of your own.

If you do not like my approach, you can still use my grammars. Copy a file from this project's grammars folder into your Natlink-folder, and append the code below to the respective file. There will probably be some imports that fail, I recommend either fixing the imports or simply commenting them out.

from dragonfly import Grammar

grammar = Grammar('NAME FOR GRAMMAR')
grammar.add_rule(rules)
grammar.load()

def unload():
    global grammar
    if grammar:
        grammar.unload()
    grammar = None

However, If you do like (or don't mind) my approach, I recommend cloning this directory to your PC, and pointing your Natlink "UserDirectory" to this repo (start menu -> Configure Natlink via GUI -> UserDirectory"). The rest should work by itself, provided you pip install requirements.txt.

My import_grammars is not perfect (e.g. it doesn't allow for context switching), but it was written to take me further away from Natlinks' API which I find difficult to use (but still, I am grateful that it is written for DNS users).