VOICED PROGRAMMING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20120209610A1
• Filed: 04/24/2012
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lunis Orcutt
• Original Assignee: Lunis Orcutt
• Inventors: ORCUTT, Lunis
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,864 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/251
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

Provided herein are systems and methods for using context-sensitive speech recognition logic in a computer to create a software program, including context-aware voice entry of instructions that make up a software program, automatic context-sensitive instruction formatting, and automatic context-sensitive insertion-point positioning.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A computer-implemented method of creating, utilizing speech recognition logic, a software program, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a computer, an instruction to create the software program;

depicting, by the computer, a source code entry user interface including an instruction-entry context;

obtaining, by the computer utilizing the speech recognition logic, a spoken instruction;

determining, by the computer, a plurality of interpretations associated with said spoken instruction;

determining, by the computer, that an entry marker is focused to a first position in said instruction-entry context for entry of said spoken instruction;

selecting, by the computer based at least in part on said entry-marker focus in said instruction-entry context, one of said plurality of interpretations of said spoken instruction that corresponds to a programming instruction in said instruction-entry context; and

automatically inserting, by the computer, said programming instruction at said first position in said instruction-entry context.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

obtaining, by the computer utilizing the speech recognition logic, a command name for invoking the software program; and

associating, by the computer, said generated software program with said command name, such that said command name, when recognized by said speech recognition logic, invokes said generated software program.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform the method of claim 15.

18. A computing apparatus comprising a processor and a memory containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform the method of claim 15.

19. A computer-implemented method of creating, utilizing speech recognition logic, a software program, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a computer, an instruction to create the software program;

depicting, by the computer, a source code entry user interface including an instruction-entry workspace;

automatically focusing, by the computer, an entry marker to a first position in said instruction-entry workspace for entry of a subsequently-spoken instruction;

obtaining, by the computer utilizing the speech recognition logic, said subsequently-spoken instruction, said subsequently-spoken instruction forming a syntactically-valid programming instruction;

formatting, by the computer, said syntactically-valid programming instruction in said instruction-entry workspace according to a non-syntactically-required readability convention.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

obtaining, by the computer utilizing the speech recognition logic, a command name for invoking the software program; and

associating, by the computer, said generated software program with said command name, such that said command name, when recognized by said speech recognition logic, invokes said generated software program.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform the method of claim 19.

22. A computing apparatus comprising a processor and a memory containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform the method of claim 19.