VocalIDE
Lucas Rosenblatt · 2017
We believe that developing tools using a publicly available speech recognition API can provide a basis for keyboard free programming. We set out to develop a specialized voice-based IDE for this purpose. Early research revealed the strengths and limitations of current vocal text editors and environments. We report on a Wizard of Oz (WOz) experiment we conducted asking participants to edit code using vocal instructions given to a "human computer." Following the study, we developed a prototype, VocalIDE, which implements specialized editing mechanisms to better facilitate vocal programming.