Voice Computing with Python in Jupyter Notebooks

Jupyter is a popular platform for writing interactive computational narratives that contain computer code and its output interleaved with prose that describes the code and the output. It is possible to use one’s voice to interact with Jupyter notebooks. This capability improves access to those with impaired use of their hands. Voice computing also increases the productivity of workers who are tired of typing and increases the productivity of those workers who speak faster than they can type. Voice computing can be divided into three activities: speech-to-text, speech-to-command, and speech-to-code. We will provide examples of the first two activities with the Voice-In Plus plugin for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. To support the editing of Markdown and code cells in Jupyter notebooks, we provide several libraries of voice commands at MooersLab on GitHub.