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+[[!meta title="Improving access to AI-assisted literate programming with voice control"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2023 Blaine Mooers"]]
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+# Improving access to AI-assisted literate programming with voice control
+Blaine Mooers (he/him/his) - Pronunciation: pronounced like "moors", blaine-mooers(at)ouhsc.edu, https://basicsciences.ouhsc.edu/bmb/Faculty/bio_details/mooers-blaine-hm-phd, https://twitter.com/BlaineMooers, https://github.com/MooersLab, https://codeberg.org/MooersLab, mastodon(at)bhmooers
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+The audience will learn how to use voice control to create literate
+programming documents in Emacs. After reviewing the benefits of
+literate programming, I will review the prior work done with the voice
+control in Emacs. I will present the reasons why you'd want to use
+voice control; they go beyond the obvious benefit of avoiding or
+working around repetitive stress injuries and include the benefits of
+using voice control while standing to break up long periods of
+sitting, which are detrimental to one's health. There are many options
+for voice control in and out of the Emacs. I will review a list of
+several and then drill in on two: one that is easy but of limited
+extensibility (Voice In Plus (<https://dictanote.co/voicein/plus/>) and
+one that is harder to learn but more extensible (Talon Voice
+(<https://talon.wiki/>)). The latter has a welcoming community of users
+and developers in the Talon Slack channel.
+
+The Voice In Plus is a plugin for the Google Chrome browser that
+allows you to dictate in the text areas on web pages. The dictated
+text can be sent as soon as it appears in the browser to Emacs via
+GhostText and the Atomic-Chrome package. You can insert custom code
+snippets by voice control in the text area using Voice In Plus's
+support for custom snippets. Or, you can insert yasnippet snippets by
+voice control in the corresponding buffer in Emacs. I will demonstrate
+how to set up this workflow and how to use it to create an org mode
+file. This workflow is very effective for the creation of lots of
+prose, but not code.
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+The second approach uses the open-source software called Talon
+(<http://talon.wiki>), which is good for both prose and code. This
+package enables precise voice control in a wide variety of
+applications including Emacs. This package is also highly configurable
+using Python script and an accompanying TalonScript file, which has a
+simple YAML file format. The general users of Talon who know nothing
+about Python can easily configure their setup using TalonScript files.
+Advanced users can use Python to add modules to the Talon package to
+extend its functionality. I will demonstrate how to write an org mode
+file with executable code blocks with Talon running in Emacs. I will
+edit and run the code blocks by voice control with and without the
+help of generative AI in the form of Copilot.
+
+I also demonstrate an interactive quiz in Python and Elisp that I
+developed to the support the mastery of the voice control commands. By
+running the quiz with voice control, you can accelerate mastery of the
+commands. I learned the Talon alphabet in one day by taking the quiz
+at spaced intervals. The quiz only took 60 seconds to complete when I
+was proficient.
+
+I will conclude with a discussion of lessons learned and opportunities
+for using voice control in Emacs for AI-assisted literate programming.
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