Make installation instructions suggest installing a speech engine (#2061

) Multiple users have had errors with this. This adds verbosity so we don't need to merge necessarily if you want a very terse installation process but I think it might be helpful. Talon installation UX remains rather weak so I think its good to specify --------- Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci-lite[bot] <117423508+pre-commit-ci-lite[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Andreas Arvidsson <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Phil Cohen <[email protected]>
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 # Installation
 
 1. Install [Talon](https://talonvoice.com/)
+   - Make sure a speech engine is installed (click the Talon tray icon, then select one from the `Speech Recognition` menu)
 2. Install the [community Talon commands](https://github.com/talonhub/community).
    _(Or see [here](https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless/wiki/Talon-home-requirements) if you prefer not to use community.)_
 3. Install [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/)