Software Lets Programmers Code Hands-free

Yetihehe writes "New Scientist is reporting about a new speech recognition tool that promises to let programmers write clean code without ever having to lay a finger on their keyboard. 'The tool, called VoiceCode, has been developed to help programmers with repetitive strain injury (RSI). This is a common affliction for people who spend a lot of time using a keyboard or mouse and causes pain in muscles, tendons and nerves in a sufferer's arms and back. Some estimates suggest 22% of all US computer programmers, or 100,000 people, suffer from the condition.'"

Comments

Voice imperfections

[ajasax]

Will it be able to account for squeaks, mumbling, stutters, and Indian accents?

Re:How $` $] brilliant

[patio11]

Maybe this will finally teach perl programmers to write comprehensible code, instead of treating nearly everything like the Obfuscated C contest? "This is perfectly comprehensible if you grok regex. I mean, this one over here might look like 3MB of ASCII art compressed into a single line of text, but to a Perl programmer its perfectly comprehensible. It just converts English to Spanish. Simple, really. Can't process tildes, of course. No, I don't know how to fix that. Dive into the middle of it? You must be kidding."