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Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by AstralStorm » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

This article could use a better title.

Voice coding makes me think of audio compression for voice.

This is programming using voice recognition instead.

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by jakemal » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

ijidak wrote: post #4

FYI, I thought my programming career was over due to RSI. Now, I only type while wearing long-sleeves. And of course, I still have to take regular breaks. I no longer suffer RSI symptoms. I'm guessing because it increases blood flow to the area and perhaps the warmth helps keep ligaments and muscles flexible and loose. Simple solution, but took a while to figure out. Hopefully this helps someone reading this.

I wonder if the sleeves help your wrists slide more rather than your skin "sticking" in place against the desk/laptop and causing you to bend your wrists more to reach keys.

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by dotasm » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

Wow DragonFly, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I wonder if the speech to text space will change now that ML has gained popularity.

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by geewee » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

l_t wrote: post #34

nemo1618 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, but for me the cure was John Sarno. Unfortunately RSI seems to be one of those disorders that everyone cures differently (if at all!) and you just have to stumble around until you find a method that works for you.

Are you referring to the "Sarno method for psychosomatic symptomps" (e.g. https://www.morrisonhealth.com/sarno-method-psychosomatic-sy... )? This is the first I've heard of such a therapy, it sounds fascinating.

Yeah he probably is. Sarno wrote a whole range of books, primarily about back pain (https://www.saxo.com/dk/healing-back-pain_john-e-sarno_paper...), but also dealing with RSI. If you read up on it, a great deal of people have said it has helped them with their RSI.

Anecdotally it's done nothing for my RSI, but it has helped me deal with a 7+ year "chronic" upper back pain, though it did take a bit of time to swallow the concept at first.

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by jakemal » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

AstralStorm wrote: post #41

This article could use a better title. Voice coding makes me think of audio compression for voice. This is programming using voice recognition instead.

Isn't that voice encoding?

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by lunixbochs » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:26 PM UTC

dwiel wrote: post #21

I've been voice coding for about 5 years now. For those of you not on windows, I use talon voice on mac (linux version is in beta). It works quite well and I'm at least as productive writing code by voice than I ever was by hand. I was someone who would spend the time to get my emacs and then later vim configs highly optimized, but there is something liberating about not constraining yourself to key bindings. I used…

At this point all of the projects mentioned in this thread (caster/talon/serenade) have some option for supporting the three main (win/lin/mac) platforms.

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by cjbassi » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

qixxiq wrote: post #23

It's still surprising to see Dragon Speech Recognition as the recommended (and only) choice here. Is anyone working on decent speech recognition for Mac/Linux or know good resources for that? The ideal output is a stream of what could have been said, as well as some alternatives, each with a confidence. Every alternative I've tried has not been as effective as the version of Dragon I used from 2011. I think the focus…

I'm working on a voice coding program for Linux so I've been forced to try all the different options and ultimately I decided to go with Google Cloud speech to text since the other ones were either too difficult to set up or just didn't work that well. I'm actually really impressed with it though even with my crappy gamer headset, and I'm even using it to type out this response right now.

Link to my project for those interested: https://github.com/osprey-voice/osprey. It's still kind of a work in progress but it's been working for me.

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by lunixbochs » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:28 PM UTC

dotasm wrote: post #43

Wow DragonFly, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I wonder if the speech to text space will change now that ML has gained popularity.

There’s recently Common Voice from Mozilla, which is a huge free English dataset (1500 hours and growing), and wer_are_we [1] has shown really impressive accuracy increases in published research the past few years. Exciting times.

[1] https://github.com/syhw/wer_are_we

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by lbj » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

Just a quick shout out to Microsoft (no affiliation) - Their Sculpt keyboard has taken all the discomfort out of 15hour coding sessions. If you're a professional developer, get one.

Re: On Voice Coding

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Post by devenson » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:32 PM UTC

ijidak wrote: post #4

FYI, I thought my programming career was over due to RSI. Now, I only type while wearing long-sleeves. And of course, I still have to take regular breaks. I no longer suffer RSI symptoms. I'm guessing because it increases blood flow to the area and perhaps the warmth helps keep ligaments and muscles flexible and loose. Simple solution, but took a while to figure out. Hopefully this helps someone reading this.

I use a 250 watt heat lamp suspended about 3 feet above by keyboard. It warms my hands, the kbd, and the desk surface. Doing so for years, way more comfy.