Not programming APIs for speech recognition, ... It is hard for us to imagine a room full of developers all talking to make their computers enter C or Python code.

Dragon from Nuance, a speech-recognition software developer in Burlington, Massachusetts, is an advanced engine and is widely used for programming by voice, with Windows and Mac versions available.

OpenAI has released an open-source transcription program called Whisper. While it’s mainly aimed at researchers and developers, it turns out to be really useful for journalists, too.