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Spoken Language Support for Software Development

Andrew Begel, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report UCB/EECS-2006-8, 2006

Read on October 16, 2026

What it is: A Berkeley technical report on a speech-based programming system for Java. Its evaluation with expert Java developers found that they learned the spoken commands easily but found programming by voice slower than typing.
How much weight it carries: A university technical report, not a journal paper. The evaluation used a small group of expert Java developers and an early, purpose-built spoken language, so it shows the state of 2006 voice programming, not current tools.

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In Begel's 2006 evaluation of a speech-based Java programming system, most expert Java developers had little trouble learning the system but found it slower than typing.
“Our evaluation of this software with expert Java developers showed that most developers had little trouble learning to use the system, but found it slower than typing.” (Abstract)