Re: Auditory Code Completion - any good ideas?

  • From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:04:38 -0500

Cool, thanks for the ideas folks.

Can you think of anything specific to code completion that would be
helpful. For example, right now, we have our code completion 1) let
you navigate aurally what methods are available, 2) when you "land" on
a particular method, it tells you the name of the method, gives a
description of what it does, then gives you a short code example of
how to use it. Should we change that in any way? Should we add
anything additional?

I was also thinking of adding in a feature where, if you ever turn on
code completion, it will "guess" what you can type next and give you
choices aurally. The idea would be that this could make it easier for
blind kids to not have to remember either the names of methods nor the
language itself, at least as much. Is that a good idea? Bad idea?
Worth my time? Not worth my time?


Stefik

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, this might be a bit ambitious, Andreas, but... There are times
> when we as blind people need to make pictorial representations &
> charts. I'd like to see a system like turtle graphics implemented in
> sodbeans (did u ever play w/that?) &, in addition, I'd like to get
> audio feedback of what I'm drawing--thus, if I draw a diagonal line
> from the lower left to the upper right of the screen, the sound would
> start out low in my left ear, then increase in pitch & pan toward the
> right till it reached its destination. Logo also has a "label"
> command, whereby u could write text at a given point. It might not
> make visual representations accessible to us, but it would allow us to
> communicate w/our sighted colleagues in that way.
>
> Sorry if this wasn't exactly what you're lookin for.
>
> On 5/23/11, DaShiell, Jude T.  CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26
> <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> What would be even scarier would be if you had set the auditory
>> completions to speak in your own voice and the computer refused to do so
>> and put out another voice.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Katherine
>> Moss
>> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 0:24
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: RE: Auditory Code Completion - any good ideas?
>>
>> I'd be a bit scared though if my computer started talking to me in my
>> own voice, not to mention, driven up a Christmas tree, and down the
>> sidewalk.  LOL!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DaShiell,
>> Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26
>> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 3:46 PM
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: RE: Auditory Code Completion - any good ideas?
>>
>> The problem with windows screen narrator is it doesn't sound like Steve
>> Balmer.  The problem with Apple is no Steve Jobs voice available for
>> VoiceOver.  Linux does have a little bit of the speech of Linus Torvalds
>> though.  Why not put your voice engrams into the system as at least one
>> alternative and perhaps a female voice if one of the others who helped
>> you on the project is female?  Those could be put under voices of the
>> implementers.  Not too often does software come up that way.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas
>> Stefik
>> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 15:13
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Auditory Code Completion - any good ideas?
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I'm most of the way through a new auditory code completion system, which
>> I'm putting into Sodbeans 2.0. Any feature requests for how it should
>> sound?
>>
>> Stefik
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