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p2p news / p2pnet: You’re a programmer, but you’ve had an accident which has left you paralyzed, perhaps. And it means you can’t work anymore.
An unpleasant scenario, but for some people, it’s very real.
Or perhaps you’ve developed the carpal tunnel syndrome. Or maybe you’re just plain lazy.
Or …….
If any of the above fits, a new open source Canadian speech recognition application is being developed to let you write good code —– without ever touching your keyboard.
The VoiceCode project was launched in March, 2000, to develop efficient programming-by-voice tools, to allow programmers to write, edit, navigate and debug code through a voice interface, says Canada’s National Research Council.
"VoiceCode is finally in a state where people can use it to do real work in Python and C/C++," says the NRC’s Alain Désilets. "The system is still fairly hard to install, but the development team believes users will find the effort worthwhile."
It’s GNU General Public Licensed and you can download the VoiceCode package here, where you’ll also find admin and other details.
There’s also a demo movie here that was presented at the CHI 2006 (Computer Human Interaction conference) in Montreal, this month.
(Thanks, J-P)
April 28th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Could be useful
Although it would take quite a bit of practise to get as fast as using the keyboard. Does this only work with IDE’s? Because i mainly use gcc + autotools + gdb.
April 30th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Why not just get something that plugs into your head. You spend every waking moment in front of a screen anyway.
Go for a walk in the park. You know….the 3 D place with green stuff on the floor and brown and green things sticking out of the ground and has this one big non-florescent light which goes on and off all by itself.
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Not as easy or cheap to find porn out there, unfortunately…