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.