Hello Kavita!

Hello! I am the newest member of this research.  I’m so excited to join this project and I’m willing to keep up with all of the work that all of you have done already. It is amazing what technology can do through developing different tools to help and improve assistive technologies. Still there are countless problems that we can assist and make it possible for people with disabilities. It is important to mention that having a disability does not mean that you can’t achieve a task.

            Last week, Professor Ordóñez presented me Kavita through facebook. It was a pleasure to know about the inspiration of the project and it will be an honor to have the opportunity of meeting her in person some day. She will now be like a role model to me because of all of the achievements that she done in her life. I will be happy to work in this research with all of you and Kavita.

Development of a Vocabulary for Speech Recognition Software

  Last semester Andrea, Natalia, Xiomara and I developed a vocabulary to use while programming  using speech recognition software such as Simon. The vocabulary uses gerunds to identify the key words that are commonly used in many programming languages.  We then created a survey that consisted of 10 statements with three options on how the person would verbalize it. The statements used basic programing structures such as loops, conditional, creating variables, among others to determine the best way to verbalize them.  

   A total of 33 students from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico responded to the survey.  Based on the results of the survey, we developed a final version of the vocabulary that we expect would be accepted by the programming community.