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by gitgreen 2310 days ago
Here is a very early(2007) and unintentionally humorous attempt to script in Perl with voice recognition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ0CytAsec

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I know it’s funny, but I hate the prevalence of this video so much, because people reference it as a reason voice programming doesn’t work, and I think it discourages people who may have otherwise had success with voice programming. You should consider linking to the middle of Emily Shea’s PerlCon video where she first plays this video then shows that it’s actually possible to dictate the same code effectively.
I don't know which video you're referring to and a cursory search didn't turn it up. Perhaps you could link it?
https://youtu.be/Mz3JeYfBTcY at 4:15 is when she plays the Perl Vista video

(note the fiddling around video playing isn’t a fundamental issue with voice input, google slides with video embeds turned out to be pretty unreliable with keyboard input and I believe that was ironed out in her later talks)