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Emacspeak-98 --Interactive Accessibility Provides Speech-Enabled WebTop
Announcing Emacspeak-98
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For Immediate Release:
San Jose, Calif., (November 13, 1997) Emacspeak-98 is now available.
Interactive Accessibility Provides Speech-Enabled WebTop
About Emacspeak:
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Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that
provides complete eyes-free access to all major open
32 and 64 bit operating systems. By seamlessly
blending all aspects of the Internet such as
Web-surfing and electronic messaging into the audio
desktop, Emacspeak enables speech access to local
and remote information with a consistent and
well-integrated user interface.
Major Enhancements:
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1) Usability enhancements including:
a) Smart prefix recognition
b) Flexible customization of dictionaries
c) Pause and resume
d) Lazy voice-lock for faster audio formatting
e) Enhanced outline support
2) Support for games including gomoku and tetris.
3) Better support for running remote sessions.
4) Supports many additional major modes.
+ Preliminary support for the recently released Emacs 20.
History:
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Emacspeak-98 (Labrador) is a major upgrade to the
speech output extension to Emacs. Emacspeak-95 (code
named Illinois) was released on the Internet in May
1995 as the first complete speech interface to UNIX
workstations. The subsequent release, Emacspeak-96
(code named Egypt) made available in May 1996 provided
significant enhancements to the interface. Emacspeak-97
(Tennessee) went further in providing a true audio
desktop. Emacspeak-98 goes further by
integratingInternetWorking into all aspects of the
audio desktop to provide the first fully interactive
speech-enabled WebTop.
Obtaining Emacspeak:
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Visit Emacspeak at http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman
--You can also pick up emacspeak via anonymous ftp from
ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/raman/emacspeak/.
You can subscribe to the emacspeak mailing list
<emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> by sending mail to the list
owner greg e. priest-dorman <priestdo@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
Based at Cornell (NY)
<http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman> --home to some of
the most innovative auditory interfaces on the WWW--
Emacspeak is mirrored world-wide by an international
netwrok of software archives. The Emacspeak mailing
list is archived at
<https://www.emacspeak.org/VCCS-archive/>
--thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman.
Press/Analyst Contact: Aster Labrador
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Best Regards,
--raman
Adobe Systems Tel: 1 (408) 536 3945 (W14-129)
Advanced Technology Group Fax: 1 (408) 537 4042
(W14 129) 345 Park Avenue Email: raman@xxxxxxxxxxx
San Jose , CA 95110 -2704 Email: raman@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://labrador.corp.adobe.com/~raman/ (Adobe Intranet)
http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.html (Cornell)
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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken
as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc.
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