Android voice recognition already works like that to some extent. If you say the word "plus" in a sentence the letters "plus" appear in the text. If you say "plus" between saying two numbers the symbol "+" appears. But I haven't found a word to generate the "enter" key.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, these are such great ideas. I only thought of the ASCII to symbol > display conversion, didn't think of the other possibilities. Especially > about speaking your programs. My hands start to have problems from the too > much keyboard typing, speaking my programs would be so desirable at this > stage... > With Visual Studio integration I am working on, at least the part with > entering ASCII but displaying symbols would take a reasonable amount of > effort (reasonable from the perspective of something you do on your own > time, besides the day job). And it could be an option you turn on and off. > > The part that I would not be able to tackle though is designing the actual > symbols and then implementing the font. That's why I mentioned APL symbols > because fonts for those are already found around, so I could have had a > proof of concept at least. Just to have the ball rolling, in case there was > interest. > > I am not that much artistically gifted so if others work on designing the > symbols and then the respective fonts, I would use that. But just display, > if you copy/paste, what you'd get would still be ASCII. And also your saved > file would still be a normal J ASCII file. That I think is the > quickest/easiest path to have something that works given that current J > engine expects ASCII. In the editor I use you have a display view and a > data buffer. So it's easy to show one thing but let your real program code > be something else. > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > P.S, > > > > If each symbol is given a unique name, we could simply SPEAK our programs > > into our editor. > > > > Skip > > > > -- > > Skip Cave > > Cave Consulting LLC > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
