Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves: [VIDEO] Inspired me to try to create a live coding musical instrument based on it: [LINK] / [LINK]

Yes! Here is a really great talk on the state of doing so, with a fantastic realtime demo near the end. Mirabai live-codes using her Plover setup and narrates her thought process as she types out each command. [VIDEO]

There is an open source stenography project called "Plover". The idea of stenotype is instead of typing individual letters one combines keys to form sillables (or commands), what makes typing blazingly fast (240 WPM in the video below) and is overall a less cramped movement, because after each sillable you can relax instead of keeping muscles tensed for each letter. [LINK] Talk: [VIDEO] Demo: [LINK]

Stenography might also be an option: [LINK] Here's a video by the stenographer half of the duo that started the project: [VIDEO]

Court reporters are required to type at 240WPM with zero mistakes, or they lose their court reporting license. You can teach yourself to use a stenography machine. You can build your own steno machine with some open-source software and a fancy gaming keyboard. See this video by Mirabai Knight and the Plover project: [VIDEO] I wanted to try this but I couldn't stick with it.

Here's a good PyCon presentation from someone who switched to voice input for programming. [VIDEO] I hadn't thought about it until this thread, but one of the biggest barriers for me using it was that we have a really quiet open office, but now that we are WFH...

I personally like ibm tts slightly more than Google although it is more expensive. I think Google, but definitely other startups also allow you to train the model to be closer to your voice. Since you might have many recordings of yourself before this, could be cool. Comment if you can't find it and I can look It's none of my business how long term it is, but if it is long term look into stenography, especially open source opensteno and plover. Old talk but [VIDEO] It's what court reporters use to transcribe at the speed of text but for you it could mean giving text into a tts software at the speed of normal talking. I've only tried it briefly but if you take the time to learn it, you can comfortably get to normal speech speeds with no hang fatigue. It's one of the reasons opensteno is so nice bc it also has cheap steno keyboards which are normally thousands and locked behind industry. Comment if you want more links! I can add when I'm by my computer

Over the past decade there have been some interesting discussions about Plover on HN [LINK] The video in the first result was good: [VIDEO]