Voice Recognition and Programming?
dsaxena asks: "I'm suffering from repetitive-stress injuries to my wrists/foreamrs from typing too much. Luckilly it hasn't progressed into carpal tunnel syndrome yet, but it will if I'm not careful about it. I've been looking at alternative input methods and was wondering how many people have tried using speech recognition for programming?
I've seen demos of speech recongition software (Dragon and ViaVoice),
but it's awlays been in the context of writing letters or reports.
Would it work as an efficient input method when trying to code in C?"
"It's all in the grammar."
Voice recognition still has a ways to mature before it is robust enough for coding since a lot of programming involves the use of symbols, not words. Sure, you can assign "names" to these symbols and start speaking away, but it would be cleaner if voice recognition engines are made aware of the syntax of specific languages and would do this for you (many modern editors have this feature). Is voice recognition moving in this direction, or do coders have a while to wait before they can start using their keyboards as paperweights?
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