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Author Topic: Speech Recognition for Programmers - Tell it what to do  (Read 5278 times)

housetier

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Speech Recognition for Programmers - Tell it what to do
« on: April 28, 2006, 03:21 AM »
Quick! Where is it?

You can download it right hurr.

Uhm... and what is it?

Voice Code is an Open Source initiative (...) to develop tools for programming by voice.

So in essence you speak and it writes code!

OK, What's the catch?

I only very recently saw it on slashdot, followed the link to the original article and from there to the voicecode site. I have *not tested* the software, I haven't even downloaded it yet.

Also there are some limitations to the supported programming languages. But this is open source software, I am sure it will catch up very quickly.

kthx, next!

I will try this nice piece of software and see how well it does for me. I find the idea very intriguing.

What are your thoughts? Have you had experience with voice recognition software in general? I 'd like to hear about it...

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Re: VoiceCode - still a way to go
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2006, 03:51 AM »
Well I did try to install it, but on the installation manual I saw it needed a software called "Naturally Speaking"; just by the name I could tell it wouldn't be available for linux... The .zip archive of VoiceCode that I downloaded contained a bunch of .exe and one .msi file: hardly, what I call open source.

So it seems I'll be out of the game for a while...

Some things are too nice to be true.

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Re: Speech Recognition for Programmers - Tell it what to do
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2006, 08:17 PM »
still no updates here  :(

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Re: Speech Recognition for Programmers - Tell it what to do
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2006, 03:56 AM »
The .zip archive of VoiceCode that I downloaded contained a bunch of .exe and one .msi file: hardly, what I call open source.

Since when has open source meant cross platform?

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Re: Speech Recognition for Programmers - Tell it what to do
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2006, 08:28 AM »
I am really tempted to ignore such provocative statements, because they usually miss the point. I will make an exception, hoping to clear things up:

no source = not a chance to cross compile
no source = I don't like it
no source = I dont't trust it

Please don't try to nail me with terminology, I will easily wiggle my way out of that.

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Re: Speech Recognition for Programmers - Tell it what to do
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2006, 08:50 AM »
Fair enough - I misunderstood your original comment. I didn't realise the source code wasn't included - I thought you were complaining that it wasn't installable on Linux.

Don't really know enough about it but I would have thought it would be non-trivial to write apps that can be compiled on Linux and Windows that are specifically designed to drive the sound system.

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Re: Speech Recognition for Programmers - Tell it what to do
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2006, 10:12 AM »
It looks like you can access the source through CVS on SourceForge :)