Eliminate pain and RSI The origin of VoiceCode

This project was born out of my own injury from keyboard overuse (a.k.a. programming). My RSI was so bad my hands constantly ached from my fingertips all the way up to my elbows. I could barely even hold a fork to eat with – I feared I would have to stop programming. I tried every keyboard and peripheral device imaginable (data hand, ergonomic keyboards, squishy iPad keyboards, Leap Motion, cherry brown switches, even mapping the QWERTY layout onto a MIDI piano keyboard, and everything else) with no luck - it kept getting worse. Then I tried Dragon Dictate. It was AWESOME . . . except . . . it was nearly impossible to write code using dictation or discrete commands. I started tweaking it to do what I wanted, creating tens of thousands of custom commands and vocab terms, but it was too much work to add every command and possibility that I needed.

Then came my “Aha moment” – and the VoiceCode speakable meta control-language was born. This project is the culmination of my last 3 years spent developing this language. It ACTUALLY WORKS for writing code in ANY programming language (plus it’s good for WAY more than just programming). I’m happy to report that my RSI is now gone and I control my computer and write code at blazing speeds for as long as I want . . . with no pain.