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I also have hand problems. I use speech recognition to type everything, including code, and a game controller to move around the mouse. The controller I'm curre

by m48 12y ago

I also have hand problems. I use speech recognition to type everything, including code, and a game controller to move around the mouse. The controller I'm currently using, a PS4 controller, has a trackpad in the middle, so I was able to mash that against my face and give her technique a shot. It works better than you'd think. The PS4 trackpad isn't exactly brilliant, but I can move around the mouse and click on what I want to with some accuracy. Of course, the trackpad on the controller is very small and not very accurate, so it's not really practical for artwork or anything. But, with a better, larger trackpad, I can imagine this technique actually working. I might give it a shot at some point. I am a bit worried about the inevitable neck and nose pain, though. I wish she had gone into a little more detail about how she avoids that. Maybe she just has a neck of steel? For the curious, these are some other resources I've found about people working around RSI. Most of these are about using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to code by voice, since that's what I'm most interested in, but I think it's still interesting. There really needs to be a list somewhere for open-source workarounds to disabilities. To the best of my knowledge, there really isn't one. Natlink + Dragon NaturallySpeaking: (NatLink, which lets you make custom speech commands for Dragon in Python, is currently being developed at http://qh.antenna.nl/unimacro/index.html http://qh.antenna.nl/unimacro/index.html, but that site's pretty incomprehensible. The original author's site is at http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/welcomeapage.htm http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/welcomeapage.htm. It's pretty out of date, but explains the fundamentals of the system better, I think.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI (don't bother looking around, the source code of this was never released) https://github.com/simianhacker/code-by-voice https://github.com/simianhacker/code-by-voice https://github.com/tgrosinger/aenea-grammars https://github.com/tgrosinger/aenea-grammars Libraries for using Dragon NaturallySpeaking on Linux with VMs: https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/aenea https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/aenea https://github.com/russell/damselfly https://github.com/russell/damselfly It seems a post about this kind of thing pops up about every other month or so. I'm thinking of showing off my system here when I polish it up a bit. It's not nearly as complicated as some of these other ones, but I'm beginning to get pretty close to normal typing speed coding by voice.

iamcreasy 12y ago
> don't bother looking around, the source code of this was never released But the video like has a comment(1 week old) from Tavis Rudd linking github repository of his code : https://github.com/dictation-toolbox https://github.com/dictation-toolbox. And about your setup, please do post it! :)
- m48 12y ago
  I'm not completely sure it's his code. In his comments, he says it is for "those who are interested in trying something like this," and the readmes of most of the repos thank Tavis Rudd for inspiration, which would be a little strange if he wrote them. It might be based on his system, though, since he said he had privately sent some people his code. I haven't looked into it too much, though. You can find my setup on GitHub fairly easily right now (my screenname's the same), but at the moment a good portion of the code is embarrassingly terrible. Making voice commands to code while using those voice commands to code is predictably awkward. Besides, I want to write some documentation on how to get it working and stuff.

by m48 12y ago

iamcreasy 12y ago

> don't bother looking around, the source code of this was never released But the video like has a comment(1 week old) from Tavis Rudd linking github repository of his code : https://github.com/dictation-toolbox https://github.com/dictation-toolbox. And about your setup, please do post it! :)

m48 12y ago
I'm not completely sure it's his code. In his comments, he says it is for "those who are interested in trying something like this," and the readmes of most of the repos thank Tavis Rudd for inspiration, which would be a little strange if he wrote them. It might be based on his system, though, since he said he had privately sent some people his code. I haven't looked into it too much, though. You can find my setup on GitHub fairly easily right now (my screenname's the same), but at the moment a good portion of the code is embarrassingly terrible. Making voice commands to code while using those voice commands to code is predictably awkward. Besides, I want to write some documentation on how to get it working and stuff.