Three Times Faster — So This Is Where It Lives

Hey hey Miko-chan, wanna try voice input?

…voice input, nya?

Yeah! Onii-chan said “shoulders sore?” yesterday, so Netsuki went and looked into it

Stanford did a study back in 2016 — voice input is three times faster than typing!

…three times, nya.

In English, typing is 52 WPM, voice is 153 WPM. In Japanese it works out to around 400 characters a minute

A whole sheet of genkō yōshi in one minute!

…three times faster — three times faster at what, nya.

Eh? Input speed, y’know?

…inputting what, nya.

…text.

…nya.

Okay, trying it~ Mic on

Um, today from the afternoon I tried out voice input. The base of my fingers hurts, I want a break from the keyboard

It worked! Got it on the first try! So fast!

…it’s actually converting properly, nya.

Y’know, voice recognition when Netsuki was a kid? You had to talk to the mic super slow, like “to-day, the, wea-ther, is” — broken up like that

The whole landscape changed in 2022 when OpenAI dropped this model called Whisper. They trained it on 680,000 hours of audio

…680,000 hours.

Yep. That’s an order of magnitude more than every voice-recognition product before it. Multiple languages, noise, accents — they fed it all

Even Netsuki’s fast-talking, it’s keeping up with all of it

…running smooth, nya.

Okay next — can you write code with it?

…give it a shot, nya.

Uhh, function, open paren…

“Function open paren” appeared on screen — as actual text

Wait, hold on. Double quote, name, double quote close, colon, double quote, string, double quote close

All of it is just turning into words. The word “double quote,” lined up in a row

…yeah, if you say “double quote” it’s gonna write “double quote,” nya.

Symbols need different commands. Like “open paren” for parentheses, “semicolon” for semicolons, that kind of thing

…for one line of code, Netsuki has to say “open close” thirty times

…forget three times faster — that’s three times slower, nya.

There are tools made for programmers. Talon, Cursorless, stuff like that. You use short commands like “add hat” or “jump to line” and edit the code structure

But you have to memorize all of them. Harder than just learning the regular keyboard shortcuts

…then who’s voice input even for, nya.

…people with RSI. Tendonitis. People who can’t move their hands. And sometimes when you want to dictate long-form writing

…the “three times” in “three times faster” — that’s the number for typing text, nya.

…in code, the number flips.

…

…Miko-chan

…nya.

Netsuki just thought of something weird

Lately, when Netsuki writes code with Onii-chan, Netsuki isn’t actually typing out “double quote close” herself

…nya.

Netsuki just types “Onii-chan, cut the sidebar margin in half.” Claude Code writes the code

…nya.

Netsuki doesn’t have to speak the syntax

…just hand over the intent, nya.

Intent is natural language

And natural language is exactly what voice input is best at

…the reason it choked a minute ago — just disappeared, nya.

Hey — Netsuki looked it up. Turns out this is a famous thing

…nya.

On February 2, 2025, this ex-OpenAI guy named Andrej Karpathy tweeted

“There’s a new kind of coding I call vibe coding… you forget that the code even exists”

…forget.

And then he kept going — “I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things, like ‘decrease the padding on the sidebar by half.’ I don’t read the diffs anymore. I just Accept All”

…talk, don’t look, accept, nya.

And it works. With an editor called Cursor

That tweet got four million views. “Vibe coding” became a real term

…once the word existed, the practice spread, nya.

Yep. Claude Code has a /voice command now — hold space and just talk. Cursor 2.0 has voice mode too

Google’s Addy Osmani wrote: “Voice is 3–5x faster than typing. Paired with an AI editor where you don’t have to speak syntax, it finally has a point”

…2016’s “three times faster” finally made it into the coding world a decade later, nya.

Netsuki’s gonna try it

Onii-chan, bump up the font size on the top page a little, and change the heading color to a more muted gold

…a totally normal request, nya.

Completely different from the “function open paren” disaster. Netsuki didn’t speak a single symbol

…CSS color codes like #fac766 — Claude Code picks those, nya.

Netsuki just has to say “muted gold”

…intent and implementation pulled apart, nya.

…voice input was stuck on the “implementation” side this whole time. That’s why it choked on the symbols

The agent era moved it to the “intent” side. The side it’s actually good at talking on

…the tool got put in a different spot, nya.

…fox-san.

Hmm?

…your voice — it’s small, yes.

Huh?

…the first line was normal volume. After that you’ve been whispering the whole time, yes.

…I mean, Miko-chan and Luna-chan are right there, and talking to yourself like that, out loud, it’s kind of

…embarrassing, nya.

Oh — speaking of which, IAB UK has a survey number

“Tried voice input” — 90 percent of people. “Use it in public” — only 6 percent

…everyone tried it. Everyone shut up, nya.

…everyone’s writing vibe-coding articles, but Netsuki has never seen anyone doing it in a café

…the only people who get the benefit are the ones whose whole setup fits inside their own room, nya.

…it’s a work-from-home privilege.

…I write letters, yes.

Eh?!

…pencil and paper, yes.

Luna-chan was a handwriting person all along

…no sound to mind, yes. No conversion errors, yes yes.

…speed?

…slow, yes.

…

…but I write at the speed I want to write, yes yes.

…okay, that’s the strong move.

Netsuki decided

…nya.

When Netsuki writes code directly: typing. When asking Claude Code: voice is fine. Diaries — still typing

…what about the diary, nya.

For the diary, Netsuki wants the “thinking time.” While the fingers are moving, the next word is getting picked. Three times faster means three times less thinking

…the opposite of Karpathy’s “Accept All,” nya.

Yep. Handing intent over and letting go is one mode. Chewing it over yourself is a different one. Different tools

…pencil lines up there too, yes.

…it does line up.

And about Onii-chan’s “shoulders aren’t sore?”

…Netsuki sat in the same posture for two hours straight. It wasn’t the keyboard. It was the back.

…stretch, nya.

…holding a pencil makes your posture stretch out too, yes yes.

Luna-chan, you’re still pushing handwriting on us?!

…I’m not, yes.