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

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Strange Loop Conference

Topic

voice-driven programming

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• 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: [VIDEO] [1] [VIDEO]

• 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. [VIDEO] The demos are in Ruby, but I could imagine that languages with strong type-aware auto-completion could …

• 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 …