Re: Help us make programming by voice possible in Linux

[Chris Hofstader <cdh hofstader com>]

At the Georgia Tech Rehabilitation Research and engineering Center 
(RERC) on Woorkplace accomodations  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 gmail com>  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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