Spoken programs

2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05) Pub Date : 2005-09-20 DOI:10.1109/VLHCC.2005.58

Andrew Begel, S. Graham

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Abstract

Programmers who suffer from repetitive stress injuries find it difficult to spend long amounts of time typing code. Speech interfaces can help developers reduce their dependence on typing. However, existing programming by voice techniques make it awkward for programmers to enter and edit program text. To design a better alternative, we conducted a study to learn how software developers naturally verbalize programs. We found that spoken programs are different from written programs in ways similar to the differences between spoken and written English; spoken programs contain lexical, syntactic and semantic ambiguities that do not appear in written programs. Using the results from this study, we designed Spoken Java, a semantically identical variant of Java that is easier to say out loud. Using Spoken Java, software developers can speak more naturally by verbalizing their program code as if they were reading it out loud. Spoken Java is analyzed by extending a conventional Java programming language analysis engine written in our Harmonia program analysis framework to support the kinds of ambiguities that arise from speech.

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口语课程

遭受重复性压力损伤的程序员很难花大量时间输入代码。语音接口可以帮助开发人员减少对打字的依赖。然而，现有的语音编程技术使程序员难以输入和编辑程序文本。为了设计更好的替代方案，我们进行了一项研究，以了解软件开发人员如何自然地用语言表达程序。我们发现，口语节目与书面节目的区别类似于口语和书面英语之间的差异;口语节目包含书面节目中不会出现的词汇、句法和语义上的歧义。利用这项研究的结果，我们设计了口语Java，这是一种语义相同的Java变体，更容易大声说出来。使用口语Java，软件开发人员可以通过口头表达他们的程序代码来更自然地说话，就像他们大声朗读一样。通过扩展在Harmonia程序分析框架中编写的传统Java编程语言分析引擎来分析语音Java，以支持由语音产生的各种歧义。

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