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DrReinhold
Thanks for this, was searching for something similar the other day, an overview is really missing in this field.
geewee
I wrote this after having suffered from some pretty severe RSI a few years back and dabbling with coding by voice. In general I think the landscape is a little hard to comprehend, so I'm hoping this might help someone who's interested in trying it out.
SquareBalls
Nicely done, I had no idea that so many where working on this stuff!
melling
I have a list of programming by voice resources on Github:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...

There’s a section on RSI too:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/README...

geewee
That is a very comprehensive RSI article list - what's your story?
melling
The short answer is that I wanted to crowd source other people’s stories in one place to give others a head start.

I’ve had my own issues and I’ve been reading stories like yours for decades. The creator of Tcl, for example, goes back to the 1990’s:

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php

Programmers without issues will rant about how they can’t imagine ever not using a keyboard, so progress on voice coding is slow.

Try reposting your story at different times. You almost got enough upvotes. This story once went to #1:

http://www.looknohands.me

geewee
Yeah that makes sense. And then once you do suffer from RSI, you can't do much work to create voice-coding ;)

I think I'll try that. Perhaps it was a little early for the US to post it.

melling
Also, I’d recommend an iPad with cheap styluses to reduce computer typing. e.g email, surfing, HN responses, etc

https://www.amazon.com/Stylus-LIBERRWAY-Universal-Capacitive...

Unless the Mind Body Approach works, I don’t see many people cured of RSI (i.e it can easily return).

Simply remove the physical keyboard whenever possible.

My feeling is that voice as a user interface might arrive soon:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/voice-as-a-user-inte...

Once people accept it, phones, tablets, and computers will get a better voice interface.