Commander Steem seamlessly enhances steemit.com with voice recognition and text to speech features! A voice based command & control mechanism, custom made for steemit!
Recently I found out that I have a degenerative condition that is stealing my eyesight. I realized I needed a superhero, so I created Commander Steem to ensure that me and others like me, will have the tools needed to make participation a breeze from here on out.
This is my 2,000th post on steemit.com and I just wanted to use this opportunity to announce the project and thank everyone for all of their support!
My goal is to enable a new level of user interaction and engagement for low and limited vision users while allowing everyone to reach out and participate more naturally.
Commander Steem isn't limited to just the differently abled or even just old guys like me.
The road map includes a number of handy features, with the eventual goal of allowing you to engage and interact with steemit completely hands free, simply by talking to your computer or cell phone.
Before final release, Commander Steem will have the following features...
[+] Dictation of replies
[+] Dictation of blogs
[-] Support for Multiple Languages
[-] Speech Directed Pagination
[-] Highlight and read
[-] Speak to vote
[-] Speak to pay
[-] Speak to transfer
[-] Speak to trade
[-] Notification of new replies
[-] Notification of new votes
[-] Notification of new followers
[-] Notification of new content mentioning you
[-] Share on steemit (highlight content on the web, say "share on steemit" and he will start a blog about it)
... If there is anything else you'd like to see, it goes here
features with a + are code complete, while features with a - are planned for future releases
I'm aiming to knock out one feature per week and if all goes as planned they will be completed in the above order.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to use Commander Steem and provide feedback.
By changing the way in which we engage the platform, I believe we'll be able to grow our user base by bringing in many, many people who have been left out in the cold by other social media platforms.
This is an alpha version for testing purposes only.
It is presently available only on github because it still needs a lot more testing and isn't ready for primetime... yet.
When released, it will be available in the Google Chrome webstore.
At the moment Commander Steem is limited to dictation tasks and will need a bit more refinement even at that task, which is why I'm reaching out at this time. Since it's a chrome extension It should work the same on Windows, Linux, OSX, Android and ChromeOS.
Commander Steem Needs YOU!
We need documentors!
We need testers!
We need feedback!
Because I plan to eat my own dog food, I will be using the dictation feature of Commander Steem to dictate all my replies going forward. So please feel free to comment and ask lots of questions!
A big shout out to 