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How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

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Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

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Post by hacker_9 »

I always wondered how someone could use text-to-speech effectively, especially with a programming language full of symbols with long names such as 'semi-colon', 'underscore', 'left parenthesis' etc. The answer it seems is to speed up the voice tenfold! Honestly incredible he's fine-tuned his other senses well enough to be able to code at a reasonable speed again.

Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

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Post by melling »

I imagine many would benefit if we had a smart developer assistant where it could have a higher level understanding of programming.

"Jarvis import library foo" - could be said from anywhere in file

"Jarvis jump to file bar.c"

"Jarvis declare var current temperature equals zero" - var currentTemperature = 0

"Jarvis write for enumeration on var word over var name list"

"Jarvis build and run" or simply "Jarvis run"

By the way, I know many people don't like to talk to a computer, can't imagine how it could be faster than typing, etc. However, I believe that once an assistant is done right, more than a few people would be converts.

Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

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Post by rootlocus »

hacker_9 wrote: post #2

I always wondered how someone could use text-to-speech effectively, especially with a programming language full of symbols with long names such as 'semi-colon', 'underscore', 'left parenthesis' etc. The answer it seems is to speed up the voice tenfold! Honestly incredible he's fine-tuned his other senses well enough to be able to code at a reasonable speed again.

It's not only sped up, it's using a lot of abbreviations.

Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

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Post by piyush_soni »

melling wrote: post #4

I imagine many would benefit if we had a smart developer assistant where it could have a higher level understanding of programming. "Jarvis import library foo" - could be said from anywhere in file "Jarvis jump to file bar.c" "Jarvis declare var current temperature equals zero" - var currentTemperature = 0 "Jarvis write for enumeration on var word over var name list" "Jarvis build and run" or simply "Jarvis run" By t…

I'm sure someone on HN is seeing this right now and has already started working on it :). Especially with the advent of Google Assistant SDK and the likes, it's clearly very much possible now.

Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

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Post by DiThi »

melling wrote: post #6
Zekio wrote: post #3

Damn, he works faster than me... the only thing I could have done faster was removing the " Edit: wrote semi colon instead of " double quote

And many modern languages don't have semi-colons. Wonder if they can be removed from C#?

I think he means the extra quotes that was causing syntax error.

Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

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Post by masklinn »

hacker_9 wrote: post #2

I always wondered how someone could use text-to-speech effectively, especially with a programming language full of symbols with long names such as 'semi-colon', 'underscore', 'left parenthesis' etc. The answer it seems is to speed up the voice tenfold! Honestly incredible he's fine-tuned his other senses well enough to be able to code at a reasonable speed again.

> The answer it seems is to speed up the voice tenfold!

That seems very common for systematic text-to-speech users, I saw a video a few months back of a lawyer (?) demonstrating ios's accessibility (rotor, voiceover, blind curtain, …) and the TTS speech was so fast it sounded like white noise to me.

Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

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Post by DiThi »

melling wrote: post #4

I imagine many would benefit if we had a smart developer assistant where it could have a higher level understanding of programming. "Jarvis import library foo" - could be said from anywhere in file "Jarvis jump to file bar.c" "Jarvis declare var current temperature equals zero" - var currentTemperature = 0 "Jarvis write for enumeration on var word over var name list" "Jarvis build and run" or simply "Jarvis run" By t…

IMHO I don't think it would fly. The most difficult things of programming are too abstract for that.

You may be interested in the guy that did all his coding with voice for a while because he couldn't use his hands, and still uses it to this day about half of the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI

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