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"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)

Strange Loop Conference · 59.2K views · 2023-10-13 · 39:26

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Overview

Pokey Rule presents Cursorless, a spoken language designed for editing code by voice, built on tree-sitter parsing with smart structural and simple token-level primitives. The talk is from Strange Loop 2023.

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HN recommends it as the best overview of Cursorless, likened to vim with your voice, and relevant to accessibility and voice coding discussions.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2023–2026

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Testing, debugging & developer toolsProgramming language designComputer vision, speech & NLP
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cursorlessvoice codingtree-sitteraccessibilitylanguage design

What people said

chamomeal · 2026-05 · Recommendation

Kinda related, but this reminded me of the guy who made a voice controlled text editing language. It's kinda like vim with your voice. Super cool talk here: [VIDEO]

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citruscomputing · 2023-11 · Recommendation

If you want a general overview of cursorless, along with seeing what it looks like in practice, the talk from Strange Loop this year was great: [VIDEO]

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sargstuff · 2023-12 · Reference

treesitter[1] is one behind the scenes approach to 'blocking' text to reduced/hi-light what is under review. VSCode is one program that makes use of treesitter. Related alternate discussions of editors using treesitter aerial.neovim[2] / outline.vim[3]. One can setup voice equivalents of macro's to do the verbal equivalent of regular expression(s) to search/sound out tagged list of sections of interest to further voice in detail. Cursorless[4][5][6] AI assistant with jetbrains[7] speach related editing sources: "Ask HN: What are the best / most accessible languages for blind programmers?" covers some ideas.[0] ---- [0] : [LINK] [1] : [LINK] [2] : [LINK] [3] : [LINK] [4] : Cursorless talk : [VIDEO] [5] Cursorless : [LINK] [6] : cursorless examples : [LINK] / [LINK] [7] : [LINK]

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