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"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)

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Pokey Rule presents Cursorless, a spoken language designed for editing code by voice, built on tree-sitter parsing with smart structural and simple token-level primitives. The talk is from Strange Loop 2023.

HN recommends it as the best overview of Cursorless, likened to vim with your voice, and relevant to accessibility and voice coding discussions.

6 comments from Hacker News

@chamomeal2026-05 · in “AI Pointer from DeepMind”

Kinda related, but this reminded me of the guy who made a voice controlled text editing language. It's kinda like vim with your voice. Super cool talk here: ▶ this video

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@citruscomputing2023-11 · in “Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso”

If you want a general overview of cursorless, along with seeing what it looks like in practice, the talk from Strange Loop this year was great: ▶ this video

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@sargstuff2023-12 · in “Ask HN: Text-to-speech recommendations for code editors?”

treesitter[1] is one behind the scenes approach to 'blocking' text to reduced/hi-light what is under review. VSCode is one program that makes use of treesitter. Related alternate discussions of editors using treesitter aerial.neovim[2] / outline.vim[3]. One can setup voice equivalents of macro's to do the verbal equivalent of regular expression(s) to search/sound out tagged list of sections of interest to further voice in detail. Cursorless[4][5][6] AI assistant with jetbrains[7] speach related editing sources: "Ask HN: What are the best / most accessible languages for blind programmers?" covers some ideas.[0] ---- [0] : link [1] : link [2] : link [3] : link [4] : Cursorless talk : ▶ this video [5] Cursorless : link [6] : cursorless examples : link / link [7] : link

@pokeyrule2023-10 · in “Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code [video]”

Ok awesome thanks I kept waiting for someone to call me on this one and I was starting to worry that no one would :). I don't believe it's Turing complete yet, so I think you may be right to call me on it. Kind of depends how you define "programming language", I guess. For what it's worth, I talk a bit about Cursorless from the perspective of programming language paradigms starting at 31:30 ( ▶ this video )

@sargstuff2023-10 · in “Ask HN: What are the best / most accessible languages for blind programmers?”

=== unicorn[0] fits in the 'easy to keep everything in memory' mental model language department without loosing expressiveness/power. language documentation page[3]. --- very high level / 6th generation level language. Makes extensive use of generators for doing goal directed programming. === Cursorless is spoken editor[1]. Throat mike useful in cubical office.[2] --- type one thing. speak another. X2 productivity. === [0] : link --- [1] : ▶ this video --- [2] : link --- [3] : link --- ===