I’m waiting for the add-on that corrects programming errors and for Microsoft to buy a copy for every last one of their programmers.
Software lets programmers code hands-free
A new speech recognition tool promises to let programmers write clean code without ever having to lay a finger on their keyboard.
The tool, called VoiceCode, has been developed to help programmers with repetitive strain injury (RSI). This is a common affliction for people who spend a lot of time using a keyboard or mouse and causes pain in muscles, tendons and nerves in a sufferer’s arms and back. Some estimates suggest 22% of all US computer programmers, or 100,000 people, suffer from the condition.
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VoiceCode lets a programmer dictate code in a more natural way, Desilets says, rapidly translating their utterances into awkward programming syntax. For example, in order to write “if (currRecNum < maxOffSet)" a VoiceCode user only needs to say: "if current record number is less than max offset then". Traditional voice-recognition programs could require nearly 50 individual words to be dictated.
If someone has a certain speech impediment, will VoiceCode write all their program code in “Lisp”?
The example seems rather simplistic to me. How does it account for character case, for example?
> If someone has a certain speech impediment, will VoiceCode
> write all their program code in “Lisp”?
And, if so, will the program talk back?
“Do what I say, not what I do.”
Yeah….. ok. I can’t see myself using this, or anyone I know using it. The last thing I want to do is dictate 5,000 lines of code.
…. all your base are belong to us ….
> The example seems rather simplistic to me. How
> does it account for character case, for example?
I guess you speak in a higher tone of voice 🙂
If you talk like a retard, it puts out code in BASIC.
If you cough and grunt you get COBOL.
If you fart at it you get C++ (You would need to go all the way to diarrhea to do a dereferenced pointer)
If you vomit on it it spits out Regular Expressions in Klingon