On Nov 14, 5:27 pm, "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Nov 14, 4:08 pm, "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Almar Klein wrote:
> >>> Hi Eric,
> >>> First of all, I like your initiative.
> >> there's nothing like self interest to drive one's initiative. :-) 14
> >> years with
> >> speech recognition and counting. I'm so looking to my 15th anniversary of
> >> being
> >> injured next year....
>
> >> another initiative is exporting the speech recognition environment to the
> >> Linux
> >> context. In a nutshell, he dictated to application on Windows, it tunnels
> >> over
> >> the network to a Linux machine, and will allow you to cut and paste to and
> >> from
> >> that Linux application. I could definitely use some high quality volunteer
> >> talent for this effort. it would make a huge quality of life difference
> >> to
> >> disabled developers. This work would also be usable by the folks in the
> >> wine
> >> project who are supporting NaturallySpeaking.
>
> >>> I'm not sure if I undestand you correctly, but can't you just
> >>> increase indentation after each line that ends with a colon?
> >>> That's how I do it in my editor. The user would then only need
> >>> to specify when to decrease indentation.
> >> here's an example of the problem:
> >> class foo( object):
> >> def cat(self)
> >> self.x=1
> >> def dog
> >> self.x=2
>
> >> this is legal Python but it's not what you need 99% of the time. There is
> >> no
> >> cue to the editor to tell it to outdent to give me what I really want
> >> which is:
>
> >> class foo( object):
> >> def cat(self)
> >> self.x=1
> >> def dog
> >> self.x=2
>
> >> so there should be a mechanism for saying "indent the level of the previous
> >> definition". For what it's worth, this would translate in speech
> >> recognition of
> >> arm in vocola pseudocode to
>
> >> new method = <def indent>def ^(self):{enter}"""{enter}"""{enter}<srch
> >> backwards
> >> and delete ^>
>
> >> which would allow me to create a method definition and put me back at a
> >> place
> >> where I can speak the method name. There's other stuff in these be done
> >> like
> >> allowing you to modify various features by names such as adding/deleting
> >> arguments, modifying array indices etc. If you are not careful, I'll talk
> >> about
> >> command disambiguation through scope reduction and the related visual
> >> elements
> >> in the working environment.
>
> >> I really need a job doing this UI stuff. :-)
>
> > The backspace key in emacs does exactly what you want. Have you tried
> > it?
>
> yes and it doesn't work right. Type this in:
>
> class pet (object):
> """
> """
> def cat(self):
> """
> """
> if food in bowl:
> self.empty = True
>
> def dog(self):
> """
> """
> if food in bowl:
> self.empty = True
> else:
> self.bark_nonstop()
>
> at the end of the method cat, a newline puts you at the left-hand margin and
> a
> subsequent tab lines you up with self.empty. Pressing backspace at that
> point,
> terminates the if. It's reasonable behavior and should be useful when
> assigned
> to the "close block" utterance. But remember, my goal is to have a variety of
> options for selecting the correct level of indentation with my eyes closed.
> Speaking a lot to get a little effect is dangerous to the health of one's
> vocal
> cords and, a text-to-speech output doesn't let you know what lines up with
> what.
I don't understand. If you don't want to terminate the "if", why do
you hit backspace? What is it that you would like to have happen?
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