Whitespace delimiters suck

[Eric S. Johansson]

Paul Magwene <paul.magwene at yale.edu> wrote:

> Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.billerica.ma.us> wrote in message news:86np80
> [snip[
>> anyone trying to program using speech recognition.  Why would they
>> do this you might ask?  Probably because they were injured from
>> programming using keyboards.

> Yes, but isn't it possible to set the speech recognition software so when
> you say "indent" it tabs right, and when you say "dedent" it tabs left?

yes it is possible but then you lose the words "indent" and "dedent" 
for most uses.  One needs to be a little more careful when picking phrases
for command use.

But as it turns out, indent vs. outdent commands are among the more minor 
problems when programming by voice.  More major problems include navigation,
high precision spacing, lots of funny characters such as . & __ and of course
spelling.  Speech recognition is extremely good at spelling ordinary 
English words.  It gets seriously cranky when you try to force it to use
English pronunciations with non-English spellings.

a project working on developing speech driven programming technologies
can be found at: http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/II_public/VoiceCode/

--- eric

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Eric S. Johansson    esj at inguide.com	esj at harvee.billerica.ma.us
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