[primaprashant]

Speech-to-text has become integral part of my dev flow especially for dictating detailed prompts to LLMs and coding agents.

I have collected the best open-source voice typing tools categorized by platform in this awesome-style GitHub repo. Hope you all find this useful!

https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

[ArlenBales]

Can you explain how exactly dictation is used for development? I type about 120 WPM so typing is always going to be way faster for me than talking. Aside for accessibility, is dictation development for slower typers or is it more so you can relax on a couch while vibe coding? If this comes off as condescension it's not intended, I am genuinely out of the loop here.

[KerrickStaley]

I think most people can speak faster than 120 WPM. For example this site says I speak at 343 WPM https://www.typingmaster.com/speech-speed-test/, and I self-measure 222 WPM on dense technical text.

[thakoppno]

Micro machines guy could be vibe coding at an absurd rate.

[mememememememo]

My LLM types at 2k WPM. So I ise that to talk to my LLMs

[primaprashant]

For me personally, it's not really about typing speed. While I can type pretty fast and most likely I speak faster than typing, but typing and dictating are just different way of doing things for me. While the end result of both is same, but for me it's just like different way of doing things and it's not a competition between the two.

I regularly just sit down and often just describe whatever I'm trying to do in detail and I speak out loud my entire thought process and what kind of trade-offs I'm thinking, all the concerns and any other edge cases and patterns I have in my mind. I just prefer to speak out loud all of those. I regularly speak out loud for 5 to 10 minutes while sometimes taking some breaks in between as well to think through things.

I am not doing it just for vibe coding, I'm using it for everything. So obviously for driving coding agents, but also for in general, describing my thoughts for brainstorming or having some kind of like a critique session with LLMs for my ideas and thoughts. So for everything, I'm just using dictation.

One other benefit I think for me personally is that since I'm interacting with coding agents and in general LLMs a lot again and again every day, I end up giving much more context and details if I'm speaking out loud compared to typing. Sometimes I might feel a little bit lazy to type one or two extra sentences. But while speaking, I don't really have that kind of friction.

[Zizizizz]

Most English speakers speak faster than 120 wpm so that's probably why people, especially those who can't type at speeds like you can, prefer it.

[sgt]

Typing is considerably less energy intensive than speaking. At least it is for me. I save the speaking for meetings, etc.