In the environment I worked, low level OS developers, often working in assembler, were known as ‘code writers’. The term ‘programmers’ tended to refer to higher levels languages, and application writers.
That was back as long ago as late 1970s. May just have been a local habit though?
Re voice recognition, I grant it has advanced to the point of being quite useful. But I think it has a long way to go before we can say it has transformed to world of computing, in the way that GUIs did vs command line input, or in the way that personal workstations suddenly evolved from mainframes office systems.