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In a 2022 study of programmers with motor impairments, the interviewees said they were frustrated by long hours of memorizing unnatural commands to enter code by voice.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“The interviewees expressed their frustration with long hours of memorizing unnatural commands in order to enter code by voice.”
Exploring Motor-impaired Programmers' Use of Speech Recognition, Sadia Nowrin et al., ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22), poster, 2022, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3517428.3550392)- What it measures
- The authors interviewed programmers with motor impairments about the voice programming tools they used. The paper is a four-page poster at the ASSETS 2022 accessibility conference.
- What it does not show
- A small group of interviews. It describes perceptions, not how long learning a voice command set takes or how fast anyone codes.