Re: Help us make programming by voice possible in Linux
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:11:02 -0400
Hi,
While I expressed how FSF/GNU would like to see a multi-purpose dictation
program built, I may have neglected to say that I have RSI pretty bad in my
hands, wrists, forearms and shoulders. Lately, due to a complete lack of
anything resembling accessible dictation software on Macintosh and having no
Vista or W7 OS installed on the bevy of computers around the house, I pretty
much ignore the pain until it is too bad to continue and then take a fistful of
aspirin or Aliv and go off to making my requisite phone calls and reading audio
books or watching television.
So, please include me in your research as I am a hacker and have tried
programming via voice on Windows and much less success on OSX.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
On Jul 7, 2010, at 2:13 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
> organized 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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