VimSpeak Demo
Ashley Feniello1 HN recommenders · 2016–2026
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Ashley Feniello demonstrates VimSpeak, a voice-controlled interface for Vim inspired by Tavis Rudd's voice programming talk. The demo includes working through a VimGolf challenge by speech.
HN mentions it as an example of voice-driven editing, and one commenter says it clarified how Vim commands compose.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Here's voice input for emacs: [1], [2] And for vim (inspired by [2]): [3] I'm sure gesture tracking would probably not be too hard, using any of a number of VR input devices now on the market. Eye tracking would be harder, as I'm not aware of any consumer-level eye-tracking technologies out there. You could certainly have head-tracking pretty easily, though. Now integrating this in a way that would actually be fluid, natural, and useful is another story, though. Also, I'm personally not sure how many big body movements I want to be doing while using my computer (unless I'm trying to exercise, play a game, draw, conduct music, or lose weight). Ideally, I'd want to be as motionless as possible while being as comfortable as possible and while having maximum flexibility and efficiency of input. Keyboards are pretty good for that. [1] - [LINK] [2] - [LINK] [3] - [VIDEO]
An IDE does greatly reduce typing. What we need next is some advanced voice input added to our editors. This "John Henry" mentality that developers have about typing never seems to go away. We should be building smarter tools. We're getting closer with voice. VimSpeak: [VIDEO] Using Dragon: [LINK] Using Kaldi: [LINK] This toolkit seems to be the most widely used: [LINK] Better predictive typing would also be useful. Computer languages often greatly narrow what you probably want to type next, because of scope, for example.
While I had times discovering myself to accidentally putting 'i' accidentally into MS Word docs and having vom key binding ls in VS Code (and formally eclipse) as well for that reason, I still feel clumsy. I think this is because I mostly rely on muscle memory rather than understanding deeply what I am doing to also allow me to go beyond what I normally do ) which already makes me faster than in any other editor). I found VimSpeak [1] interesting because I somehow understood how to really compose vim commands in a way [1] [VIDEO]