of course, but nothing is forcing you to say "open-brace" for this character. there was a video of someone here not that long ago that customized a speech recog

of course, but nothing is forcing you to say "open-brace" for this character. there was a video of someone here not that long ago that customized a speech recognition software to use some easily pronounced sounds for this. while it would still take longer to say, for example koi or roi for ( or ), it reduces it significantly, thus making it into a viable option for programming input