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
Dude you’re not thinking about it the right way. We can define a new multi byte character set to help define mood (both speaker and listener), intention, irony, sarcasm, sincerity, bodily functions, and so on. This is a solvable problem.
"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.
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.
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 hate it
But all the extroverted programmers will love it
So, nobody?
Except those who convinced the boss that working on-site if for the greater good. Fuck you John, we were happy.
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.
As a severe hearing impaired developer,
Use AI to generate the sign language videos
hurt me in my fucking soul.
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
Right all we are missing now is videos in comments.
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Let's turn github into Instagram. Every snippet of code has to be attached to a picture or video...
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.
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
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 let = MyVariable down
Never gonna MyVariable.run() around
Ah yes, source code files that aren't plain text and can only be opened by certain editors, exactly what the software industry needs
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.The rant comment will be forever changed.
And dare I say improved.
You are too dangerous to be kept alive.
If I ever encountered a voice comment in code I would immediately track that motherfucker down and do terrible things to them
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
Fantastic idea but I don't think it goes far enough. Why stop at comments? I want to be able to write whole functions and classes like that!
ffmpeg is now a dependency of gcc
We should make it like Star Trek where you can create entire holodeck programs with just voice commands.
Yes please, I would love not being able to scan comments to see if they are relevant to what I'm trying to do
I also like when people respond to my texts with voice memos
If this existed, I would be summoned by HR after performing my first code review.
Ban this person from computers forever.
While investigating an uncovered node in some aviation datalink software, I discovered a 15 year old comment from 1993 along the lines of, "this function never runs, I'll fix it later." I wish will all my heart I could have heard their voice. Even if just for a moment.
inb4 zoomers unironically want this
Or Base64 inside the comment text
I adore the energy behind these comments.
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