{"id":8503,"date":"2014-03-02T17:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T22:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8503"},"modified":"2014-03-02T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T22:17:16","slug":"using-python-to-code-by-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/02\/using-python-to-code-by-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Python to Code by Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI\">Tavis Rudd<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/412957294436290560\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI\"><p>Two years ago I developed a case of Emacs Pinkie (RSI) so severe my hands went numb and I could no longer type or work. Desperate, I tried voice recognition. At first programming with it was painfully slow but, as I couldn&rsquo;t type, I persevered. After several months of vocab tweaking and duct-tape coding in Python and Emacs Lisp, I had a system that enabled me to code faster and more efficiently by voice than I ever had by hand.<\/p>\n<p>In a fast-paced live demo, I will create a small system using Python, plus a few other languages for good measure, and deploy it without touching the keyboard. The demo gods will make a scheduled appearance. I hope to convince you that voice recognition is no longer a crutch for the disabled or limited to plain prose. It&rsquo;s now a highly effective tool that could benefit all programmers.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tavis Rudd (via Daniel Jalkut): Two years ago I developed a case of Emacs Pinkie (RSI) so severe my hands went numb and I could no longer type or work. Desperate, I tried voice recognition. At first programming with it was painfully slow but, as I couldn&rsquo;t type, I persevered. After several months of vocab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[124,71,232,787],"class_list":["post-8503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-emacs","tag-programming","tag-python","tag-speech-recognition"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}