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I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking for dictating emails and documents to minimize keyboard and mouse use, but have not yet found a useful way of using dictation for RStudio other than creating macros for certain common actions e.g. "comment that" or "set working directory". I am looking for a way to do at least some of the coding itself by voice, acknowledging that some keystrokes may still be needed but any minimization would be helpful.

Searching other forums I have come across VoiceCode, which may be a solution but is only available for Mac so far and I am on Windows for various reasons. I have also seen Vocola which appears to be a scripting language for writing macros but not sure this would help.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Bryan

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  • Somewhat related: https://github.com/yihui/shiny-apps/tree/master/voice – Jonathan Carroll Jan 10 '17 at 23:48
  • Lots and lots of discussions and examples of using Dragon to code by voice over at http://www.knowbrainer.com/forums/forum/index.cfm Somewhere you can find the links to some YouTube videos showing people doing this extremely well. – PGilm Jan 12 '17 at 19:50

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I am not aware of any voice coding solution specifically designed for R Studio.

The thread How can one use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to code more efficiently? contains several pointers.

In short, there are many initiatives but everything is fragmented.

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