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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by philipswood on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:58AM (#38215944)
No. Talon has a phonetic alphabet, one chosen to be short and easy to disambiguate.

Some detail about it here:

https://whalequench.club/blog/2019/09/03/learning-to-speak-c...

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by was_a_dev on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:11AM (#38216740)
> Newcomers to voice coding often ask why not use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet

> With one exception, all the NATO words have more than one syllable (e.g., November has three) and are not efficient for commands like the alphabet that you will use frequently

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by ehsankia on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:41PM (#38221886)
Hmm curious why the two syllable "jury"

Why not jam, jaw, jail, junk, join, jerk, jest, jazz, jade, etc.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by Subdivide8452 on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:32PM (#38224833)
Was wondering the exact same thing. But my brain stopped after ‘jet’.
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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by e12e on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:40PM (#38226035)
Jinx?
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