IEEE Spectrum had an interesting post plaster various companionships trying to sell voice programming interfaces. Not programming APIs for speech recognition, but the substitution of the traditional text editor to produce programs.

The business, Serenade and Talon, have very different modes. Serenade has fairly normal-sounding language, whereas Talon has you use very specific terms and can even use look tracking to figure out what you are looking at when you issue a require. There’s also mention of two open-source products( Aenae and Caster) that require you to use a third-party addres engine.

For an example of Talon’s input, imagine you crave this indication of system in your curriculum 😛 TAGEND name=extract_word(m)

You’d say this out loud:” Phrase name op equals snake obtain command paren mad .” Not exactly how Star Trek envisioned singer programming.

For accessibility, this might be workable. It is hard for us to imagine a chamber full of developers all talking to make their computers enter C or Python code. Until we can say,” Computer, build a graphic using the data in file hackaday-2 7 ,” we think this is not going to go mainstream.

The actual speech recognition part is pretty much a stock now. Doing a acceptable move of guesses about what beings will say and what they mean by it is something else. It seems like this works best when you have a very specific and limited vocabulary, like operating a 3D printer.

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