Navigating the Challenges of Voice Coding

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Pokey Rule about using his voice to code, and the current state of voice coding software.

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Show Notes

• 00:33 Welcome
• 01:35 Guest introduction
• Con 2021 - Cursorless: keyboards and mice are sooo last year!! by Pokey Rule
• Emily Shea
• 05:12 How does coding with your voice work?
• Talon Voice
• Cursorless Talon
• 09:45 How do you handle triggering wrong words?
• 11:41 Sponsor: The Stack Overflow Podcast
• 12:26 Example of voice coding
• Parrot
• 14:21 What are the noises you make for?
• 24:29 Working on multiple lines at the same time
• 27:37 How do you decide where the hats go?
• 31:18 Sponsor: directus
• 32:59 What is the community of users like for this?
• Tree Sitter
• “Incremental, zero-config Code Nav using stack graphs” by Douglas Creager
• 35:20 Does eye tracking work?
• 36:48 What kind of mic do you use?
• DPA Microphone
• The Voice Book
• 39:25 Supper Club questions
• Dark Abyss VS Code theme
• Kinesis Freestyle 2
• Charybdis Nano keyboard
• Nexstand
• Arxiv Sanity
• Subvocal Recognition
• Imagen Research
• Midjourney
• 54:11 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Git Imerge

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• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials
• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials
• Pokey: YouTube channel, Sponsor Pokey on GitHub

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