Contents

1. About This Page
2. Forums, Community, Publicity
3. Sources and Modules
4. Documentation
5. Repositories
6. Other Documents
7. DNS Add-ons, Open-source and Commercial
8. Videos
9. Installation Instructions (Dragonfly and Caster)
10. Caster Wiki
11. Legacy Links
12. Troubleshooting
13. Miscellaneous

About

This page is intended to serve as an index of information related to Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dragonfly, voice programming, extending Dragon, and my own project, Caster. Below, you will find a collection of links related to those subjects. Please make a pull request for corrections or adding additional resources.

If you're just getting started with voice programming, I suggest reading this article and this FAQ to get the lay of the land.

Forums, Community, Publicity

​ Community Groups

• Caster Gitter Channel - Text chat room.

• Discord Channel - Castor/Dragonfly text or voice chat room.

• Stackoverflow for Dragonfly

• Google Groups For Dragonfly - Forum

• KnowBrainer - Third-Party Command Utilities - Forum

• Google groups for Comp.lang.beta - Forum

Blogs

• HandsFreecoding - Techniques and software to code and control computers by voice

• Explosionduck - Open Source Speech Tools

• Extrahop - Programming by Voice: Staying Productive without Harming Yourself

• VoiceControl - Dragonfly

Miscellaneous

• Arstechnica - Coding without a keystroke: The hands-free creation of a full video game

• State of Voice Coding — 2017

• Vocola - Programming by Voice FAQ

• VoiceCode Academic Paper PDF

Sources and Modules

• Github - Dragonfly - (Recommended) - A Community fork of t4ngo's Dragonfly repository.
• Github - t4ngo/dragonfly - Stale

Dragonfly and Natlink Documentation

Dragonfly

• Dragonfly - readthedocs - (Recommended Documentation)

• t4ngo's Dragonfly - readthedocs - Stale

Natlink

• Qh.antenna.nl - Natlink, Unimacro and Vocola - (Recommended) Documentation and install instructions

As Needed

• Register Natlink pyd Manually

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update

• Qh.antenna.nl - Implementation_and_Acceptance_of Natlink.pdf

Other Dragonfly Repositories

Updated - 10/10/2018 Link - Last commit on (Month - Day - Year)

• Github - dictation-toolbox - Aenea - A system to allow speech recognition via Dragonfly on one computer to send events to another.
• Github - russell/damselfly - Damselfly - Damselfly: Use dragon naturally speaking to control linux apps.
• Github - jgarvin/mandimus - (Sep 7, 2018)
• Github - j127/coding-by-voice (Jun 19, 2015)
• Github - codebold/hiccup - (Jan 10, 2015)
• Github - ccowan/code-by-voice - (Nov 18, 2013)
• Github - simianhacker/code-by-voice - (Nov 18, 2013)
• Github - chajadan/DragonflyRules - (Jul 14, 2015)
• Github - davitenio/dragonfly-macros - (Apr 15, 2014)
• Github - Taraxicum/dragonfly-rules - (Dec 7, 2015)
• Github - wolfmanstout/dragonfly-commands - (Sep 30, 2018)
• Github - poppe1219/dragonfly-scripts - (Oct 5, 2015)
• Github - barrysims/dragonfly - (Mar 26, 2014)
• Github - ccrusius/dragonfly-modules - ( Jul 1, 2014)
• Github - tjanpool/myDragonflyScripts - (Mar 6, 2015)
• Github - danielgm/JarvisGrammars - (Dec 8, 2016)
• Github - jiqimaogou/NatLink-MacroSystem - (Sep 10, 2013)
• Github - whIzz2000/natlink-py-scripts - (Jun 27, 2013)
• Github - whIzz2000/natlink-py-scripts - (Dec 8, 2016)
• Github - danzel/NatlinkVisualStudioMacros - (Sep 10, 2013)
• Github - tgrosinger/aenea-grammars - (Oct 3, 2015)

Other Related Documents

Updated -10/10/2018

• KnowBrainer Dragon and Computer Tweaks
• KnowBrainer Dragon 15 Review PDF
• Njr.sabi.net - Creating a dictation buffer
• ShortTalk Emacs Quickref.pdf
• Alexander15w's Command Language Comparison Spreadsheet

Open Source and Commercial Dragon Addons

Updated - 10/13/2018

​ Open Source

• Vocola

• Voicecode

• DragonControl

• Click by Voice - Extension for Chrome

Commercial

• Voicecode.io

• VoiceComputer for Dragon

• PCByVoice SpeechStart+

• KnowBrainer Command Utility

• RedStartSystems

• SayWhatPro

• Speech Productivity

Video

Updated - 10/13/2018

• Tavis Rudd - Pycon Talk - Using Python to Code by Voice - (Mar 20, 2013)
• Tavis Rudd - 5 programming languages in 5 mins, by Voice (Polyglot Conf) - (Apr 15, 2013)
• Some links related to Tavis Rudd voice coding talk at #pycon
• Explanation of continuous command recognition by Twizzybiz - (Apr 9, 2009)
• A voice programmer - Speech Recognition used for Programming and Software development Demonstration. - (Dec 31, 2011)
• Voice Coding Demonstration - (Jan 15, 2017)
• Demo of Voice Coding + Art - (Apr 16, 2018)
• Controlling computer and programming by voice (Voice Coding) - (May 13, 2018)
• Multiple chained speech recognition commands in dragonfly -- low latency for fluid use - (Mar 11, 2015)
• Short demo showing how to install the "Click by Voice" extension for Chrome - (Jul 21, 2017)

Installation Instructions

Updated - 10/13/2018

• Instructions for Dragonfly and Castor (Recommended)
• Install Vid (Caster) - Slightly outdated
• Install Vid (Dragonfly) - Slightly outdated
• Installing Natlink Vocola and Dragonfly - t4ngo Dragonfly

Legacy

• NatLink For Python 2.5
• A collection of utilities and macros for voice recognition using Dragon NaturallySpeaking® by ScanSoft®

Troubleshooting

• The "Cannot load compatibility module support" Error
• Error 6034
• Troubleshooting FAQ - Dragonfly and Castor - (Scroll to the bottom of the post)

Other

• Manual_adv_remote_debugger

• Python HTTP CLI

• Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury

• Voice Elements - A couple of Web Components that can do amazing stuff using the Web Speech API

• Use Function() vs process_recognition() and value()

• Speech_Recognition - Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline

• Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

• The Eleventh HOPE (2016): Coding by Voice with Open Source Speech Recognition

Archived Links

• Google Code - Dragonfly - Depreciated Dragonfly repository

• Google Code - dragonfly-modules - Depreciated Dragonfly repository

• Pythonhosted - Dragonfly -Module Index - Archived Documentation

• Pythonhosted -Dragonfly - Archived Documentation

• Tutorial on setting Dragonfly - Video outdated

• Nuance Community Help - Forum Deleted - Archived