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1000commands
Tavis Rudd's spoken Python language required users to learn a complex set of over 1000 commands.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Tavis Rudd's spoken Python language requires users to learn a complex set of over 1000 commands.”
Exploring Motor-impaired Programmers' Use of Speech Recognition, Sadia Nowrin et al., ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22), poster, 2022, Related work.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3517428.3550392)- What it measures
- The paper summarizes earlier voice coding systems built by developers with RSI, including the spoken Python system built by Tavis Rudd.
- What it does not show
- The count is the paper's description of one system. Later systems may differ.