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Hi,
I am suffering from RSI from too much coding. Does anyone know of a facility for speech to code in livecode ?

CAsba

You want to speak into the Script Editor and have it write down what you are saying?

No.

I have no idea if any of the many speech-to-text programs will act on a blinking cursor in the SE. I would be interested in having you try it. There must be a few free trials for these. Give it a whirl. Remember that there are formatting issues with this, for example, can you say:

put x space ampersand ampersand space quote X Y Z quote space into field 1

for And even then, I think, you would have to lose spaces. The above is likely to give "X Y Z" instead of "XYZ"

Craig

I just spent 5 minutes looking fairly stupid.
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CAsba wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 04, 2023 9:15 am

Hi,
I am suffering from RSI from too much coding. Does anyone know of a facility for speech to code in livecode ?

When I had a hand injury years ago I tried coding vocally. It was very cumbersome. Code is so different from speech that no VTT handles it gracefully.

What eventually did help me was switching my typing to one-handed DVORAK. After a few weeks practice typing speed was more than 2/3 normal.

This may not help if the pain is severe in both hands. But if you can trade off it may be worth considering.

I’m forced to use VTT in my daily work (apparently it’s not cost effective to ask the secretaries that we do employ anyway to transcribe dictations like we used to, but the huge amount of time I spend correcting the VTT output is invisible to the powers that be…)

I would definitely not recommend voice-to-text for anything, let alone coding, and that’s using enterprise software that’s supposedly specifically tailored to my profession…

22 years ago I got serious RSI while programming lots of CALL software (Toolbook for Windows 2000, for what its worth),
and had those horrible electro-conductivity tests where they stick needles in you, and so . . .

After escaping from the doctors (who wanted to slice my wrists open) . . .

. . . for a year I tilted my keyboard AWAY from me and used 2 of these:
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For the last 20 years I have used these:
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Left-handed ergonomic mouse.

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Right-handed vertical mouse.

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Left-handed gaming keyboard.

I replaced my mouse with a trackball for similar reasons many years ago, and have no more problems ever since!

Thanks for the tips. Why didn't I think of that ?