On 2/19/2015 10:33 AM, Bryan Duarte wrote:
Thank you jwi, and Jacob,
I took a look at that posting and it seems pretty unique. I am not much
interested in the speech driven development, but I am very interested in
developing an accessible IDE.
Well you should be because it looks like an aural interface (uses speech
instead of keyboards) uses the same kinds of data to present to either a
text to speech or speech recognition driven environment.
A professor and I have been throwing around the idea of developing a completely
text based IDE. There are a lot of reasons this could be beneficial to a blind
developer and maybe even some sighted developers who are comfortable in the
terminal. The idea would be really just to provide a way of easily navigating
blocks of code using some kind of tabular formatting, and being able to
collapse blocks of code and hearing from a high level information about the
code within. All tools and features would obviously be spoken or output in some
kind of audio manor.
I've been working with another professor working on some of these issues
as well. His focus has been mostly blind young adults in India. come up
with some pretty cool concepts that looks very usable. The challenge now
is to make them work and, quite frankly monetize the effort to pay for
the development.
Again, this shows the similarities in functionality used by both speech
recognition and text-to-speech. All I care about is text and what I can
say. We're now working with constructs such as with-open, argument by
number, plaintext symbol names (with bidirectional transform to and from
code form), guided construct generation for things like classes,
methods, comprehensions etc.
All of these things would be useful to handed programmers as well as a
way of accelerating co-creation and editing. Unfortunately, like with
disabled people stove piping text-to-speech versus speech recognition,
handed developers stovepipe keyboard interfaces and don't really think
about what they are trying to do, only how they are doing it.
Yes yes, it's a broadbrush that you can probably slap me with. :-)
Oh and before I forget does anyone know how to contact Eric who was developing
that accessible speech driven IDE? Thanks
Well, you could try looking in a mirror and speaking my name three times
at midnight But you would get better results if you used my non-mailing
list email address. e...@eggo.org.
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