"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea
"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea on HackerTube: recommended by 5 Hacker News commenters across 6 separate months, 2020–2023.
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.
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cube2222Feb 2023Strongly recommends
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
in “Numen: Voice Control for Handsfree Computing” · View on HN
glenjaminNov 2022Strongly recommends
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.
in “Hey, GitHub – Waiting list signup” · View on HN
tbabejJun 2020Strongly recommends
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
in “Ask HN: Is there any work being done in speech-to-code with deep learning?” · View on HN
kbensonJan 2022Recommends
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
in “Ask HN: Why is there no high quality method for voice control of a PC?” · View on HN
58x14Oct 2021Recommends
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.
in “Spatial Keyboard Navigation” · View on HN
cube2222May 2021Recommends
Check out voice programming with Talon[0], I've recently been playing around with it (to be less reliant on my hands), and it actually takes little work to get started and fairly productive. The state of voice programming is much better than most people would imagine. Here's a nice talk on strangeloop by a person who switched to it permanently: ▶ this video [0]: [link]
in “Squeezebox Keyboard” · View on HN
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m463Nov 2023Cites it
> Soon we will be talking to our LLM's a lot People have been saying this for decades. I think of "dragon naturally speaking" and similar. It still doesn't seem mainstream. (maybe it is but not visible to me?) that said, I still remember this video: ▶ this video
in “I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?” · View on HN
b2gillsJun 2021Cites it
You can if you put in the work to set it up. There are two (nearly identical) talks by Emily Shea - Perl Out Loud [link] - Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway? ▶ this video
in “Try APL” · View on HN
lunixbochsFeb 2021Cites it
My project, Talon, is free and cross platform. It might have some options that can help you: [link] Some blog posts: - [link] - [link] - [link] Some talks: - [link] - ▶ this video - [link]
in “Typing, RSI, and what I do differently” · View on HN