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Voice Coder – Alexa skill to code by voice

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Re: Voice Coder – Alexa skill to code by voice

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Really cool! Perhaps you could also take a look at what we are building at https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder) to make a 100% on-device and private-by-design Voice AI which runs even on a RaspberryPi 3 it would be awesome to do this on a raspi, without requiring internet connection!

I met you at maker fair! I was impressed by the demo and how well it could recognize my voice even when I was far away or facing hard surfaces.

Re: Voice Coder – Alexa skill to code by voice

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See https://talonvoice.com for an extensible open source alternative to voice code. The creator/main developer is a friend of mine and is one of the smartest people I know. The project can be used to control IDA for reverse engineering, play video games, program, and more.

Thanks for the plug! Couple notes: Talon is free, but there are closed source bits, and this Alexa project is "voice coder", which is different than the paid and abandoned voicecode project.

The difference between this and Talon, is Talon can be used for real programming and uses very low latency offline recognition, while voice coder looks like a guided tutorial and the user experience is probably a fairly high latency single command call/response based on my previous Alexa experience. I'm not sure Alexa can recognize a streaming series of commands without large recognition pauses between each command.

Re: Voice Coder – Alexa skill to code by voice

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If you are interested in state-of-the-art voice coding, I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyYIIFKsdU

Silvius isn't really state of the art. It's just newish. On their website it even says the project that inspired them has better performance. It references Aenea (which is a convoluted system of using Dragon on Linux in a VM) and calls out to Tavis Rudd's 5-year-old presentation and Dragonfly, none of which are state of the art.

Silvius is unique in being the only project I know of to use Kaldi, which is very cool because it's open-source and doesn't require a GPU, but the recognition accuracy of Silvius isn't great and the voice model is fixed and has no feedback from the grammar.

Re: Voice Coder – Alexa skill to code by voice

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I ask it for my code it and Alexa says, oddly and quickly, "0irk.". That code is not accepted.

I tested your code and it works for me. Make sure you type 0IRK and nothing else like spaces or periods. or click this link https://voicecoder.net/game.html?id=0IRK

What browser and device are you using?

Re: Voice Coder – Alexa skill to code by voice

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I ask it for my code it and Alexa says, oddly and quickly, "0irk.". That code is not accepted.

I tested your code and it works for me. Make sure you type 0IRK and nothing else like spaces or periods. or click this link https://voicecoder.net/game.html?id=0IRK What browser and device are you using?

I guess the problem was that it said "dot", so I included a period. It should probably not say that. It works now, thanks!

Re: Voice Coder – Alexa skill to code by voice

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See https://talonvoice.com for an extensible open source alternative to voice code. The creator/main developer is a friend of mine and is one of the smartest people I know. The project can be used to control IDA for reverse engineering, play video games, program, and more.

Thanks for the plug! Couple notes: Talon is free, but there are closed source bits, and this Alexa project is "voice coder", which is different than the paid and abandoned voicecode project. The difference between this and Talon, is Talon can be used for real programming and uses very low latency offline recognition, while voice coder looks like a guided tutorial and the user experience is probably a fairly high late…

Correct. Voice Coder is a guided tutorial for beginners, not a replacement for developing production code. It does allow for multi step answers, but is a high latency back and forth dialog with a smaller set of commands. The goal is to be extremely human friendly, not productive, to better understand the basics of coding.

Re: Voice Coder – Alexa skill to code by voice

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post #32

See https://talonvoice.com for an extensible open source alternative to voice code. The creator/main developer is a friend of mine and is one of the smartest people I know. The project can be used to control IDA for reverse engineering, play video games, program, and more.

Thanks for the plug! Couple notes: Talon is free, but there are closed source bits, and this Alexa project is "voice coder", which is different than the paid and abandoned voicecode project. The difference between this and Talon, is Talon can be used for real programming and uses very low latency offline recognition, while voice coder looks like a guided tutorial and the user experience is probably a fairly high late…

Talon seems impressive.

https://youtu.be/ddFI63dgpaI

How is its accuracy for daily use? How about random navigation within a file, for example.

Does it have an active community?

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