That's a great point! There are quite a few specialized products for voice recognition and in fact domain specific voice recognition should surely be easier th

That's a great point! There are quite a few specialized products for voice recognition and in fact domain specific voice recognition should surely be easier than trying to recognize general natural language. This is especially true, in the case of programming languages, because they tend to be so structured. There are a few major differences between most uses of voice recognition and programming though: The biggest issue is that most coding is not producing code; it's navigating and editing existing code in a non-linear way. I think that makes it extremely difficult because it needs to be integrated with static (or dynamic!) analysis of a codebase. And once we take that step, we should be able to turn programming from shuffling text around to a more conversational (not unlike REPL-based) development. There are also issues with the ability to pronounce things in some programming languages and being able to abstractly refer to these (often not linear) things. Because voice recognition is slower in terms of commands per second (as far as I've seen), we'd need more powerful and expressive ways of communicating intent to reach parity with keyboard-based programming. What I was hoping for with "interactive metaprogramming" was to be able to do project-wide queries and edits. It seemed that trying to find a voice-based equivalent to the way we program with text and keyboards was never going to be a great fit and that, really, we should have more powerful tools for interacting with code anyways. Lojban provides a lot of fertile ground for these ideas, I think. For example, Lojban has a really powerful way of talking about space, time, relative positions, anaphora, and meta-linguistic correction/negation. I can imagine that being incredibly useful for programming by voice. And I think the conversational style is key because the biggest issue with voice-based interfaces is presentation of relevant information. Lojban is based on relationships so it would be very natural to query the language itself with datalog-like evaluation, which provides an elegant solution to the hidden commands problem. edit: In regards to the price, I'd be willing to pay quite a lot. Losing the ability to program was one of the darkest times in my life. Soul-crushing, really. I was completely lost, unable to work and unable to enjoy myself. I remember when I thought $300-350 for a keyboard was expensive when looking at the Kinesis Advantage 2, but today, I'd be happy to pay 10 or 100 times the price knowing what it did for me. It's the difference between being able to work and enjoy myself (not being in constant pain from trying to work anyways) and laying around feeling hopeless and worthless.