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I am highly suspicious of new tech coming in the guise of 'accessibility'. As someone goin blind, a lot of things toted as good for me are cumbersome and bad.
by jesterswilde 4y ago
I am highly suspicious of new tech coming in the guise of 'accessibility'. As someone goin blind, a lot of things toted as good for me are cumbersome and bad.
Maybe this will be different, and that'd be neat. Though I just think more expressions of code is neat. I also know the accessibility you're talkin about isn't for blindness.
That being said I can talk about code decently well, but if you've never heard code come out of text-to-speech, well, it's painful.
I bring up the text-to-speech because if speech is input, it would make sense for speech to also be the output. Selfishly, getting a lot of developers to spend time coding through voice might end up with some novel and well thought out solutions.
- theCrowing 4y agoYou look at the product from your point of view and you are not the target group, it's that easy.
- boredumb 4y agoI do think there will be big advancements in the text-to-speech realm. I've noticed some ML projects imitating voices surprisingly well and while it's not quite there yet - it's already a bit less grating than it was even a few years ago.
- harvey9 4y agoFor sight problems you are correct. But voice input is valuable by itself. I had chronic tendonitis in my wrists a few years ago. I looked into voice coding and it was difficult to set up. Fortunately for me I've been able to adapt with a vertical mouse and split keyboard.