Software Lets Programmers Code Hands-Free
From: New Scientist - 04/26/2006
By: Duncan Graham-Rowe

New speech recognition software called VoiceCode could greatly ease the
plight of the some 22 percent of all U.S. software programmers who suffer
from repetitive strain injury. The tool automatically recognizes spoken
syntax, converting it into correct code and eliminating the need to spell out
every syntactic peculiarity as typical with most speech recognition software.
The project is a joint collaboration between National Research Council of
Canada researcher Alain Desilets, Harvard University's David Fox, and the
University of California at Berkeley's Stuart Norton. Desilets says the
software enables programmers to dictate code more naturally, and can quickly
interpret spoken programming syntax. VoiceCode currently works only with
Python, but Desilets says it can be adapted for use with other languages.
Desilets presented the program at ACM's CHI2006 conference held in Montreal
last week. 

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http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9066-software-lets-programmers-code-handsfree.html

Links:
VoiceCode
http://voicecode.iit.nrc.ca/

Alain Dsilets
alain.desilet@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Software lets programmers code hands-free
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9066

VoiceCode Programming by Voice Toolbox Open Source Project
http://voicecode.iit.nrc.ca/VoiceCode/uploads/openSource.html
