I already hate people who send voice messages in a world where dictation software exists. I hate whoever even thought of joking about this even more.
But dictation software would omit crucial parts like ummms, coughing etc
“crucial parts”
I have literally given up friendships from people that wouldn’t stop sending me voice messages.
I accept it from family, kids, the elderly and such. I just can’t believe people want me to turn off my music and slowly listen to your shitty voice when I can easily multitask.
At least most apps added playback speed selector.
I just never set up my voicemail. Then people who actually have a chance of successfully contacting me know not to even try the phone.
The dictation software we have is pretty shitty though. It almost always needs proof-read, or re-dictated several times to get it right. At that point you may as well just send an audio clip.
Until the day that dictation software gets it 100% correct, it’s not going to be worth my time.
For now, the human on the other end will always have an easier time understand an audio clip than a machine, because human minds are more capable of using context and getting past regional accents.
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I’ll read comments, but I would never listen to voice comments. Literally never. I’d spend an hour googling for context and solutions before I’d listen to a voice message in the code pages.
Voice is objectively the worst way to convey data via computer. It almost always wastes my time, is horrible to skim for relevant info, and for complex topics is an absolute nightmare.
Text is so, so much more efficient. I can’t imagine why anyone would want this. If it’s ever implemented, please don’t make it obvious. Nobody should be encouraged to inflict this on coworkers or future devs.
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Most of the times I get a voice message it could be written in two sentences, but they still decide to make it a two minute voice message. Just a lot of useless stuff added for free
I always try to think about what I’m writing before sending it, you can’t proofread an audio message
The dictation software we have is pretty shitty though.
As someone who used dictation software when said software needed to be trained first and also trained its users how to speak more clearly, it always amazes me when I hear people say things like this.
The problem is human speech is lazy and inaccurate. Half of the time I have to listen to a voice clip there are two or three words in the clip that are barely intelligible. If I don’t catch it by the third pass I stop and just guess by context. It is the same thing the AWESOME dictation software we have today does, but saves me the time and effort and gives the sender a chance to fix their own mumbles.
Of course, I’m one of those people whose voicemail message used to be, “Don’t leave me a message unless your call went straight to voicemail. I will see your missed call and call you back.”
I hate it
But all the extroverted programmers will love it
So, nobody?
Lol, for real. I think we all go into programming because we dont want to talk to people and only be at the computer
Semi-extroverted programmer here. While I can see how this might be useful in a world where programming is a multimedia craft, if I can’t open it in plain vi, keep it the fuck out of my source code.
but what about programmers with problems hearing? An alternative of webcam video with sign language, pantomime and subtitles is needed!
edit: OOH! Use AI to generate the sign language videos. Could be wild, considering how good AI is at drawing hands.
Mandatory alt-text.
… which is then displayed in a longer comment…
based on text
… where have I seen that before? Genius!
As a severe hearing impaired developer,
Use AI to generate the sign language videos
hurt me in my fucking soul.
Always found it strange anyway when services make a sign language video instead of subtitles
Nah that’s okay, it’s like providing a dub instead of a sub, in the way it feels.
But not an AI generated one, please! Not with those 7-fingered hands! It’ll be like a dub where someone’s gurgling while dubbing it!
Maybe if you take LSD while watching it, the multi-fingered, multi-limbed speech will start to make some sort of divine sense…
Good point. I wonder if there was a way to like auto-transcribe these voice/video comments and automatically embed them in the source code so you have like a written-out comment that people could read.
Whisper AI? https://openai.com/research/whisper
Imagine spending HOURS listening your colleagues comments… I quit.
You know someone on the team (probably me) that is gonna pontificate TF out of the comment too and you’re gonna get a 10 min diatribe on a 5 line function lol
I’m gonna listen… at 3x speed
Thinking of I think if this happens to be I really need to get into ASMR.
Looking at how good textual documentation works, it would probably be a 3s long note reading out the method name
Oh hahaha nooooo, it would be 15 seconds, and it would start with a sigh and deep, troubled breathing noises, a finger tapping the mic and someone saying “is this thing on” before the entirely useless comment even starts.
Obviously they should be using syntactically correct JavaDoc format here so the voice messages can be converted to HTML
Don’t kid yourself, it would be 15 seconds of swearing followed by 2 seconds of useless misleading info.
I would enable this in my project so I can ban any contributor who submits an MR with it
All my comments would just be Rick Astley
Never gonna
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I am deaf. i already struggle with keeping up with subtitles on tutorial videos of some obscure stuff that has little to no docs. Kindly return this idea to a void function instead and try not to catch the erroneous thread with these satanic proposals.
Ah yes, source code files that aren’t plain text and can only be opened by certain editors, exactly what the software industry needs
The audio is stored separately and the source code might only contain a comment with specific text and a path which can then be interpreted as the voice note by the IDE.
Save as embedded base64, problem solved
The rant comment will be forever changed.
And dare I say improved.
In reality, an editor could have speech-to-text and it would transcribe the spoken comment into a comment with some tag to indicate it was a spoken comment. Then when an editor encounters such a comment, it would read it out using text-to-speech. For example
// transcript: Holy fuck what is wrong with this stupid code‽ for fucks sake! *inaudible* I've spent hours on this. I'm going to... nevermind it was a semicolon. Undo comment. Remove comment. Cancel comment.You are too dangerous to be kept alive.
why use a resource folder for it, when you can embed a base64 encoding directly into the source file?
Yes, add this and images and svg to the markdown standard
If this existed, I would be summoned by HR after performing my first code review.
I also like when people respond to my texts with voice memos
