Hear Your Code Fail, Voice-Assisted Debugging for Python

Amiri, Sayed Mahbub Hasan, Islam, Md. Mainul, Hossen, Mohammad Shakhawat, Amiri, Sayed Majhab Hasan, Mamun, Mohammad Shawkat Ali, Kabir, Sk. Humaun, Akter, Naznin

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

This staggering performance drain translates to roughly $61 billion in yearly financial losses throughout the worldwide software market, as quantified by the Standish Group's 2023 analysis of advancement workflows. The core inefficiency stems from traditional debugging's visual - only paradigm, where deve lopers must manually parse dense, technical stack traces while mentally reconstructing error context a process requiring intense cognitive focus that fragments attention between code logic and exception diagnostics. Neuroergonomic research from MIT's Human - Computer Interaction Lab reveals this context - switching triggers measurable cognitive overload, increasing prefrontal cortex activation by 60% compared to focused coding tasks, ultimately leading to mental fatigue that compounds debugging errors. The accessibility limitations of conventional debugging tools create additional barriers for approximately 12.5% of professional developers with visual impairments (World Health Organization, 2024), who struggle with screen readers that poorly interpret te chnical tracebacks. As Sarah Parker, a blind Python developer at Microsoft, testified during the 2023 Accessible Tech Symposium: "NVDA reads exception blocks as disconnected fragments I spend more time reassembling error narratives than solving actual prob lems."