Re: Help us make programming by voice possible in Linux
- From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:34:55 -0400
Good morning,
You can also contact "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>
He is a sighted developer who has interest in speech input, particularly for
development, as he does not have use of the keyboard. He is involved in the
Ubuntu accessibility initiative and has a great deal of understanding about
some of the roadblocks and hurdles, along with potential solutions, in this
area.
HTH,
Everett Zufelt
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On 2010-07-11, at 7:23 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
> Has anyone communicated with Dennis Brown on this issue?
>
> Dennis is the guy who, about a million years ago, started the JAWS scripting
> mailing list and, later, he kicked off the blind programming list for more
> hardcore hacking. He worked at FS for a couple of years and is a super smart
> guy and is a real sweetheart. Dennis is working from home in Atlanta these
> days but, as he is the guy who worked very closely with Hartgen on J-Say and,
> before that, he was patient number one on JAWBone. He has been programming by
> voice for an eternity and has done so with tremendous success.
>
> I seem to have misplaced his current contact information (I still have his
> old FS email address in my contacts folder which is useless) but I would
> guess that someone on this or a number of other blind hacker mailing lists
> can find him pretty easily.
>
> HH,
> cdh
>
>
>
> On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
>
>> At the Georgia Tech Rehabilitation Research and engineering Center (RERC) on
>> Workplace accommodations there has been some serious work done on blind
>> computer users and the massively disproportionate levels of RSI in the
>> community of PWVI. When I get back to Florida, I'll call some friends up
>> there and chase down papers and such that they have written.
>>
>> Also, someone other than me should go to scholar.google.com and search for
>> any number of keyword combinations to find reports of injury correlated with
>> vision impairment.
>>
>> On 07/07/2010 02:13 PM, Bill Cox wrote:
>>> I'm trying to contact programmers who can't type, and who program by
>>> voice. There aren't many of them. If you know any, please forward
>>> their contact info to me. I also want to contact ex-programmers who
>>> lost the ability to be employed as programmers due to typing injuries.
>>> I believe there is a major opportunity right now for these people to
>>> contribute to FOSS projects that they could use to be productive
>>> programming by voice. This could have a huge positive impact for a
>>> lot of good people.
>>>
>>> There are two FOSS projects in early stage of development that look
>>> very promising for the typing impaired, and both have very recent
>>> releases of alpha/beta code. VEDICS seems to be looking at at-spi
>>> information so that users can speak menu items, buttons, and links.
>>> This is an outstanding feature that could allow us to control
>>> applications and surf the web by voice, without using a mouse or
>>> keyboard. The other project called Simon. Is there any chance you
>>> Simon and VEDICS guys could coordinate efforts?
>>>
>>> Simon provides a great interface for user defined commands, which are
>>> grouped into "scenarios", which are sets of commands for specific
>>> applications and/or tasks. This feature in Simon makes it very
>>> suitable for programming by voice. With user defined commands, a
>>> programmer can be nearly as productive as a fast typer. With 1,600
>>> custom Naturally Speaking commands, I was able to keep my job as a
>>> productive C programmer, and do everything I wanted to do in bash,
>>> Firefox, e-mail... everything my job required. The only time I had to
>>> type was to enter my Windows password. However, I was unable to share
>>> my commands with others, as they were not grouped into scenarios, or
>>> organised in any meaningful way. "Senarios" in my opinion is the
>>> right way to group those hundreds of commands that users may or may
>>> not want on their systems. We could have emacs-C senerios, or python
>>> scenarios, and a bash scenario.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Nischal Rao<rao.nischal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> VEDICS is now available for download at:
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vedics/
>>>> Do visit the project website at: http://vedics.sourceforge.net/
>>>> Please give us feedback about your experience using VEDICS. This would help
>>>> us in improving it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>> VEDICS Team
>>>>
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