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"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea

Strange Loop Conference5 HN recommenders · recommended in 6 months, 2020–2023
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Emily Shea explains how repetitive strain injury pushed her to program by voice using speech recognition (Talon), and gives a live coding demo. She argues voice-driven development can be pain-free, efficient and enjoyable.

It is the go-to recommendation whenever someone asks about voice coding or RSI-friendly programming setups.

9 comments from Hacker News

@cube22222023-02 · in “Numen: Voice Control for Handsfree Computing”

It's worth mentioning Talon[0] here, which is a system for offline voice control as well, with great python-based scripting (and also supports eye tracking, though I haven't used it myself). Using your computer or programming with it works like a charm, with some interesting and impressive projects based on it coming out as well, like Cursorless[1]. There's a great strangeloop talk[2] demonstrating talon and the actual state of voice coding, which is how I discovered it (hint: it's much better than you'd expect, and straightforward to learn at that). [0]: link [1]: link [2]: ▶ this video Disclaimer: not affiliated, just a happy occasional user

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@glenjamin2022-11 · in “Hey, GitHub – Waiting list signup”

There was an excellent talk at Strange Loop a few years ago by Emily Shea about how she'd learnt to code vim using her voice to combat RSI. ▶ this video The demos are in Ruby, but I could imagine that languages with strong type-aware auto-completion could be easier to do.

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@tbabej2020-06 · in “Ask HN: Is there any work being done in speech-to-code with deep learning?”

While (likely) not using directly deep learning, I found the following talk [1] by Emily Shea on her code dictation setup (based on Talon Voice) both insightful and impressive. EDIT: Actual demo with coding starts at 18.00: ▶ this video [1] ▶ this video

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@kbenson2022-01 · in “Ask HN: Why is there no high quality method for voice control of a PC?”

For anyone interested in this topic, you might be interested in this tech talk[1] from Emily Shea. In it she demos a tech stack similar to what's mentioned here, to fairly good effect. It does appear that required a lot of tweaking on her part and is optimized for the writing of code, and I'm not sure how well it functions for more general contexts. 1: ▶ this video

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@58x142021-10 · in “Spatial Keyboard Navigation”

I think you'll find this presentation by Emily Shea on voice driven development to be intriguing. ▶ this video aside, novel HIDs are IMO a huge market gap that I'd really like to invest time in if anyone wants to chat.

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