Rony Steelandt wrote: > http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9066 > > To nice to be true ?
its early technology. It's difficult to install and it definitely need some extra horsepower because the two people developing it are also disabled (like me). The only thing I've done to support the project is host two workshops on speech driven programming and let Alain stay in our guest bedroom. As I said on another mailing list, this kind of technology is incredibly important. Depending on whose numbers you use, there are somewhere between 50,000 and 80,000 developers injured every year, most of them permanently. Those these people just leave the field because there are little or no tools to support them. Helping out on this project and making it easier to use and install may mean the difference between living a disability and earning a paycheck for a sizable number of people. I must say however that Python is one of the friendlier languages when programming by unassisted speech recognition. That is as long as you keep your symbols ordinary English words and don't try to control capitalization. The easiest symbols are_like_this the hardest are CapitalizeWithoutSpaces (six misrecognition errors generating that last bit. one is still left uncorrected) So if you want to make a serious difference in people's lives from your keyboard, you can help out in two ways. The first is helping Alain and david in the voice coder project. Second is working with probably myself and a couple of other folks in gnome at-spi land building a bridge between speech recognition on Windows and complete control of the environment on Linux. As I said above and I'm not exaggerating, this kind of assistance makes a serious, quantifiable difference in the life of people with upper extremity disabilities. I hope people can help. --- eric -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
