Voiced programming system and method

• US 8,315,864 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2012
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lunis Orcutt
• Original Assignee: Lunis Orcutt
• Inventors: Orcutt, Lunis
• Primary Examiner(s): SAINT CYR, LEONARD
• Application Number:
  US13/455,017
• Publication Number:
  US 20120209610A1
• Time in Patent Office: 210 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/232
• 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. 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 comprising a plurality of contexts, including an instruction-entry context and an instruction-execution context;

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

determining, by the computer, an executable command corresponding to said spoken instruction;

selecting, by the computer, a current context among said plurality of contexts; and

when said selected current context corresponds to said instruction-execution context, contemporaneously executing said executable command, but when said selected current context corresponds to said instruction-entry context, automatically inserting in said instruction-entry context a programming instruction to subsequently execute said executable command as part of the software program.

2. The method of claim 1, 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.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform the method of claim 1.

4. A computing apparatus comprising a processor and a memory containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform the method of claim 1.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of contexts further comprises an instruction-editing context, the method further comprising:

when said selected current context corresponds to said instruction-editing context, opening an editing environment for editing said executable command.

6. 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.

7. The method of claim 6, 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.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform the method of claim 6.

9. A computing apparatus comprising a processor and a memory containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform the method of claim 6.