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Whoa -- Speech to bash commands? That's a pretty novel idea to me with my limited awareness of NLP. I could see this same idea in a lot of technical application

Whoa -- Speech to bash commands? That's a pretty novel idea to me with my limited awareness of NLP. I could see this same idea in a lot of technical applications -- Provisioning cloud infrastructure, creating a database query.. Very cool!

nickswalker 6y ago
Cool indeed! While language-to-code (where code is a regular, general-purpose language) has only recently started to be workable, text-to-SQL has been a long running application/research area for semantic parsing. Some interesting papers and datasets: NL2Bash: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08979 https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08979 Spider: https://yale-lily.github.io/spider https://yale-lily.github.io/spider
jorgemf 6y ago
It is not a novel idea and I don't think it is practical. If the natural language was practical for bash we would already have already "list directory" instead of "ls" and so on. "ls" is just 3 keystrokes while the natural language option is 15, 5 times more.
- chabad360 6y ago
  It could be useful for learning tho (but at that point it could also become a crutch).
- kredd 6y ago
  I was imagining more of a "list of files that contain word "hello" in them at least 5 times". Would be useful to easily write longer and pipe-chained commands, especially for people that don't use bash-like scripting on a daily basis.
- dreamer7 6y ago
  But the character length would matter less when you can move to the speech domain. ls is 2 syllables list dir is also 2 syllables with more meaning. Ultimately, with natural language, the effectiveness seems to be when it is coupled with speech-to-text
- sterlind 6y ago
  It could be good for programmers who can't type and have to use voice. I couldn't use my hands much for a couple months, and the state of the art for voice access.. leaves something to be desired. If I lose function for longer in the future I'd need something like that.
fudged71 6y ago
Can they train it to write regex commands too? That would be useful

nickswalker 6y ago

Cool indeed! While language-to-code (where code is a regular, general-purpose language) has only recently started to be workable, text-to-SQL has been a long running application/research area for semantic parsing. Some interesting papers and datasets: NL2Bash: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08979 https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08979 Spider: https://yale-lily.github.io/spider https://yale-lily.github.io/spider

jorgemf 6y ago

It is not a novel idea and I don't think it is practical. If the natural language was practical for bash we would already have already "list directory" instead of "ls" and so on. "ls" is just 3 keystrokes while the natural language option is 15, 5 times more.

chabad360 6y ago
It could be useful for learning tho (but at that point it could also become a crutch).
kredd 6y ago
I was imagining more of a "list of files that contain word "hello" in them at least 5 times". Would be useful to easily write longer and pipe-chained commands, especially for people that don't use bash-like scripting on a daily basis.
dreamer7 6y ago
But the character length would matter less when you can move to the speech domain. ls is 2 syllables list dir is also 2 syllables with more meaning. Ultimately, with natural language, the effectiveness seems to be when it is coupled with speech-to-text
sterlind 6y ago
It could be good for programmers who can't type and have to use voice. I couldn't use my hands much for a couple months, and the state of the art for voice access.. leaves something to be desired. If I lose function for longer in the future I'd need something like that.

fudged71 6y ago

Can they train it to write regex commands too? That would be useful