I am highly suspicious of new tech coming in the guise of 'accessibility'. As someone goin blind, a lot of things toted as good for me are cumbersome and bad.

Maybe this will be different, and that'd be neat. Though I just think more expressions of code is neat. I also know the accessibility you're talkin about isn't for blindness.

That being said I can talk about code decently well, but if you've never heard code come out of text-to-speech, well, it's painful.

I bring up the text-to-speech because if speech is input, it would make sense for speech to also be the output. Selfishly, getting a lot of developers to spend time coding through voice might end up with some novel and well thought out solutions.

For sight problems you are correct. But voice input is valuable by itself. I had chronic tendonitis in my wrists a few years ago. I looked into voice coding and it was difficult to set up. Fortunately for me I've been able to adapt with a vertical mouse and split keyboard.

You look at the product from your point of view and you are not the target group, it's that easy.

I do think there will be big advancements in the text-to-speech realm. I've noticed some ML projects imitating voices surprisingly well and while it's not quite there yet - it's already a bit less grating than it was even a few years ago.

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” - Thomas Watson

I bet if we use our imaginations, we’ll think of a lot of places were using voice to code could come in handy.

Personally, I’ve been waiting for it for a few decades.

The creator of TCL has RSI and has been using voice since the late 1990’s

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

Thought we were really close 10 years ago when Tavis Rudd developed a system:

https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI

GitHub seems to be more high-level. It figures out the syntax and what you actually want to write.

This would help if you barely knew the language.

Time to learn Rust or Scala with a little help from machine learning.

> GitHub seems to be more high-level. It figures out the syntax and what you actually want to write.

To me, looks like it's feeding your voice input to Copilot that then generates the code output just as before. So, the same strength and weaknesses of Copilot apply (and you can probably mimic it locally with a voice input method you control, just dictate comments for copilot)

> “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” - Thomas Watson

This statement probably didn't happen. The closest thing to it was 10 years after the quote is usually supposed to have happened and was about a single model of a single machine: https://geekhistory.com/content/urban-legend-i-think-there-w...

As a new dad, I would love to have the voice-to-text accuracy and speed I get on my Pixel phone on my desktop OS. Done right, I could easily see myself using it more often than when I have my youngling in one arm as I've been WFH for the better part of the last 6 years of work.