Greetings -- I'm an ex-coder with RSI, and I'm wondering if there are professional coders out there successfully developing software exclusively by voice. ...
Devon Girard
dgirard@...
Feb 6, 2003 5:32 am
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Hello, the answer to your question must be yes-but might not be straightforward. I am a software engineer who performs their job exclusively using speech...
I'm a professional software engineer who has been using dictation software to program for the last 10 years. I use DragonDictate to edit in Microsoft Visual...
I generate code quite successfully with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6.0 and Visual C++ 6.0 using a custom product I developed. I am providing copies for free for...
I was coding by voice until about a year ago, but do most stuff by hand at present ... I might switch back if I ever get &$*#(@ DNS 6 working properly again. ...
I've programmed entirely by voice for years. Sometimes I am a full-time programmer, although more often I spend most of my time doing other things. I think...
... professional coders ... I used to program exclusively by voice using custom macros for DragonDictate for Windows and VoiceGrip 2 (Alain's old tool). This ...
I've been programming full-time by voice for about ten years. I never use the keyboard except when rebooting, and I don't use the mouse much. I try not to use...
... movement ... movement. ... I agree completely that you need to get the very best equipment you can-- including keyboard and pointing device. I've never...
... Dana, what sorts of changes have you made? What has been the most useful for you? I too use vim and lots of unix stuff via CRT on a windows box. Do you...
As a recent convert to voice computing, let me say that the first few months are frustrating -- very frustrating. I have CTS in both hands, although not bad...
... box. Do ... When I was developing on Unix I did everything through xterms, but now that I'm working in java I do my development on the PC itself. I use ...
Big thanks to everyone who responded to my inquiry. That so many people are successfully coding hands-free is inspiring and exciting. Definitely something I...
Devon Girard
dgirard@...
Feb 9, 2003 12:28 am
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Well, in light of all the positive reviews we are hearing... I just thought I'd offer an opposing viewpoint. I have a degenerative neurological condition and...
Hi, Inspired by a question from Ben Staniford, I created a little NatLink program which lets programmers utter variable names using common programming...
Thank you very much that's extremely useful. It's inspired me to find out about Python. I think I might write the utterance to a file and automatically cache...
You read my mind, Ben ... I'm working on a bit of code to make it automatically cache the dictated term if the current application is Emacs. Jonathan...
... very cool Jonathan. This code teaches me about something I was hoping was possible (commands mixed with dictation). it might be an interesting mod to ...
Eric S. Johansson
esj@...
Feb 12, 2003 5:35 pm
2638
This is now done and on the website: http://www.voicerecognition.org/developers/jepstein/natlinkstuff/_ProgrammingNotation.py Ben and others: please continue...
... it might take some processing. It was most definitely stream of consciousness with the usual skips, hops, and jumps that stream of consciousness thinking...
Eric S. Johansson
esj@...
Feb 12, 2003 6:03 pm
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One thing that struck me from people's recent summaries (and thanks for writing them) is that we have many good voice solutions to replace the keyboard but no...
low tech strikes again! I'm a big fan of "low tech" solutions (like rulers taped to the screen edges). Based on my knowledge of Windows programming, I'd say...
In VoiceCode, we use NavigateByPseudoCode and NavigateByPunctuation to do away with the mouse. This essentially means that you can say things like: next comma...
Jonathan inspired the other day to have a play about with NatLink. I'm sure you guys have ways of putting the address into your browser software. But I...
Ben, In addition to the suggestions which I just sent you (privately), how 'bout: "Google Search" <dgndictation> ? (i.e., ask it to perform a search based upon...
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