Using Python to Code by Voice

What this video covers

Tavis Rudd describes how RSI forced him to program by voice, and shows the Python and Emacs Lisp system he built with voice recognition. A live demo creates and deploys a small system without touching the keyboard.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

Recurs in threads about RSI, accessibility and voice coding as the go-to demo of a custom spoken command language.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“was my favorite presentation at PyCon this past year.”

“I highly recommend watching this video, where the speaker uses voice commands to write both in emacs-lisp and in python.”

“Travis Rudd's incredible demo of voice coding [1]”