#1585 add functions oriented towards voice commands

[magnets]

Please consider adding functions oriented towards voice commands. They would likely be useful as buttons as well. I'll give you one example of a function I perform without such functionality. I browse a table then highlight and copy all the column names.

That is very simple to do with a mouse but it would be far more difficult in voice mode. If there are no records in the table and no browse is possible, that function via voice would be even more difficult.

[Isaac Bennetch]

Can you give an example of how this could be improved? I'm not very familiar with using voice control in this way.

[Pranav Sharma]

See: - https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pull/1553

Can we discuss what all functions to be controlled by voice. And the user interface.

[Marc Delisle]

Pranav,
this was not discussed by the team. In particular, I am concerned about the lack of general support from browsers, and the translatability of these voice commands.

[Pranav Sharma]

Hey Marc,
Pardon my misunderstanding. I assumed i could start working on something if it was mentioned as a feature request and make a pull request. Clearly i missed the "Milestone: Needs Decision".

As far as the translatability of voice commands are concerned, I think that the library supports a number of languages as mentioned here https://github.com/TalAter/annyang/blob/master/docs/README.md

Although this is working pretty well on chromium, i too am skeptical about the general support from browsers.

[Pranav Sharma]

Although I do feel that we should work towards testing on atleast the browsers that support it. Voice Commands are a big step ahead in the PMA UX. Launching Development for them could help understand how the users react to it, validating the necessity of voice commands, if any.

[Marc Delisle]

After a team meeting, we decided against this feature for the moment, due to its limited usefulness.