In the ever-evolving landscape of developer tooling, we've seen voice-to-code extensions and AI pair programmers. But most of these tools translate speech into imperative languages: Python, JavaScript, or shell commands. What if we could speak directly into the oldest, most elegant lineage of symbolic computation?
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Try speaking your next recursive function. You might never want to type parentheses again. Have thoughts or want to contribute? The project is looking for Lisp wizards and speech-processing hackers. Find us on GitHub. wav2li
Enter – an open-source utility (and conceptual framework) that converts spoken language from a WAV file into executable Lisp-like code ( .li files). It’s not just transcription; it’s symbolic distillation . The Core Idea Most voice-to-code systems produce verbose, line-by-line instructions. wav2li takes a different approach. It listens for structure, recursion, conditionals, and functional intent , outputting s-expressions that can be evaluated by any Lisp dialect (Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, or a minimal embedded interpreter). In the ever-evolving landscape of developer tooling, we've
Instead of saying: "Assign the variable x to 5. Then create a function called square that takes a number n and returns n times n. Then print the square of x." You simply speak naturally, and wav2li generates: By [Your Name/Staff] Try speaking your next recursive