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[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

There is treesitter support?! I need to learn to use that 
and https://github.com/eafer/rdrview is awesome. 

> On May 3, 2024, at 14:42, T.V Raman (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> 
> Announcing Emacspeak 60.0—DreamDog!To express oneself well is impactful, 
> but only when one has something impactful to express! (TVR on 
> Conversational Interfaces)
> 1. For Immediate Release:
> San Jose, CA, (May 4, 2024)
> 1.1. Emacspeak 60.0 (DreamDog) Unleashed! 🦮
> — Innate Intelligence (II)™ Makes Accessible Computing a dream!
> Advancing Accessibility In The Age Of User-Aware Interfaces — Zero cost of 
> Ownership makes priceless software Universally affordable!
> Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) — http://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak — 
> announces immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 60.0 (DreamDog) 🦮 
> — a non-LLM powered and innately intelligent audio desktop that leverages 
> today's evolving Data, Social and Assistant-Oriented Internet cloud to 
> enable working efficiently and effectively from anywhere!
> 2. Investors Note:
> With several prominent tweeters (and mythical elephants) expanding coverage 
> of #emacspeak, NASDOG: ESPK has now been consistently trading over the 
> social net at levels close to that once attained by DogCom high-fliers—and 
> is trading at levels close to that achieved by once better known stocks in 
> the tech sector.
> 3. What Is It?
> Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that provides complete 
> eyes-free access to all major 32 and 64 bit operating environments. By 
> seamlessly blending live access to all aspects of the Internet such as 
> ubiquitous assistance, Web-surfing, blogging, remote software development, 
> streaming media, social computing, AI-Tools and electronic messaging into 
> the audio desktop, Emacspeak enables spoken access to local and remote 
> information with a consistent and well-integrated user interface. A rich 
> suite of task-oriented tools provides efficient speech-enabled access to 
> the evolving assistant-oriented social Internet cloud.
> 3.1. Major Enhancements:
>     • 
> EMPV: Emacspeak And MPV 📺🔈
>     • Updated Keybindings ⌨
>     • BBC Sounds: Search, Play and Download 📻
>     • Supports HTML5 Audio/Video Tag In EWW 🕷🔈
>     • Extract readable views in EWW using RDRView if available 🦊
>     • Piper: Neural-Net TTS 🎺
>     • Speech-Enabled LLM Front-Ends, ellama and gptel . 🧙
>     • Pipewire Support 🔊
>     • New Mac Speech Server: SwiftMac 🍏
>     • Tree-Sitter Support 🎄
>     • Smart Media Selector 🗄
>     • Smart EBook Selector📚
>     • Speech-Enable EBuku 🔖
> — And a lot more than will fit this margin. … 🗞
> Note: This version requires emacs-29.1 or later. 4. Establishing Liberty, 
> Equality And Freedom:
> Never a toy system, Emacspeak is voluntarily bundled with all major Linux 
> distributions. Though designed to be modular, distributors have freely 
> chosen to bundle the fully integrated system without any undue pressure—a 
> documented success for the integrated innovation embodied by Emacspeak. As 
> the system evolves, both upgrades and downgrades continue to be available 
> at the same zero-cost to all users. The integrity of the Emacspeak codebase 
> is ensured by the reliable and secure Linux platform and the underlying GIT 
> versioning software used to develop and distribute the system.
> Extensive studies have shown that thanks to these features, users consider 
> Emacspeak to be absolutely priceless. Thanks to this wide-spread user 
> demand, the present version remains free of cost as ever—it is being made 
> available at the same zero-cost as previous releases.
> At the same time, Emacspeak continues to innovate in the area of eyes-free 
> Assistance and social interaction and carries forward the well-established 
> Open Source tradition of introducing user interface features that 
> eventually show up in luser environments.
> On this theme, when once challenged by a proponent of a crash-prone but 
> well-marketed mousetrap with the assertion "Emacs is a system from the 
> 70's", the creator of Emacspeak evinced surprise at the unusual candor 
> manifest in the assertion that it would take popular idiot-proven 
> interfaces until the year 2070 to catch up to where the Emacspeak audio 
> desktop is today. Industry experts welcomed this refreshing breath of 
> Courage Certainty and Clarity (CCC) at a time when users are reeling from 
> the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) unleashed by complex software systems 
> backed by even more convoluted press releases.
> 5. Independent Test Results:
> Independent test results have proven that unlike some modern (and not so 
> modern) software, Emacspeak can be safely uninstalled without adversely 
> affecting the continued performance of the computer. These same tests also 
> revealed that once uninstalled, the user stopped functioning altogether. 
> Speaking with Aster Labrador, the creator of Emacspeak once pointed out 
> that these results re-emphasize the user-centric design of Emacspeak; “It 
> is the user — and not the computer– that stops functioning when Emacspeak 
> is uninstalled!”.
> 5.1. Note from Aster,Bubbles and Tilden:
> UnDoctored Videos Inc. is looking for volunteers to star in a video 
> demonstrating such complete user failure.
> 6. Obtaining Emacspeak:
> Emacspeak can be downloaded from GitHub — see 
> https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak you can visit Emacspeak on the WWW at 
> http://emacspeak.sf.net. You can subscribe to the emacspeak mailing list — 
> emacspeak AT emacspeak.net. The Emacspeak Blog is a good source for news about 
> recent enhancements and how to use them.
> The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is always available at GitHub.
> 7. History:
>     • 
> Innately intelligent, Emacspeak 60 delivers a more idealized auditory 
> environment.
>     • Emacspeak 59 delivers better ergonomics by minimizing the need for 
> chording, but sadly, with no dog to guide its way.
>         • Emacspeak 58 delivers better ergonomics by minimizing the need 
> for chording.
>         • Emacspeak 57.0 is named in honor of Tilden Labrador.
>         • Emacspeak 56.0 (AgileDog) belies its age to be as agile as Tilden.
>         • Emacspeak 55.0 (CalmDog) attempts to be as calm as Tilden.
>         • Emacspeak 54.0 (EZDog) learns to take it easy from Tilden.
>         • Emacspeak 53.0 (EfficientDog) focuses on efficiency.
>         • Emacspeak 52.0 (WorkAtHomeDog) makes working remotely a 
> pleasurable experience.
>         • Bigger and more powerful than any smart assistAnt, AssistDog 
> provides
> instant access to the most relevant information at all times.
>     • Emacspeak 50.0 (SageDog) embraces the wisdom of stability as opposed 
> to rapid change and the concomitant creation of bugs.🚭: Naturally 
> Intelligent (NI)™ at how information is spoken, Emacspeak
> is entirely free of Artificial Ingredients (AI)™.
>     • Emacspeak 49.0 (WiseDog) leverages the wisdom gleaned from earlier 
> releases to provide an enhanced auditory experience.
>     • Emacspeak 48.0 (ServiceDog) builds on earlier releases to provide 
> continued end-user value.
>     • Emacspeak 47.0 (GentleDog) goes the next step in being helpful while 
> letting users learn and grow.
>     • Emacspeak 46.0 (HelpfulDog) heralds the coming of Smart Assistants.
>     • Emacspeak 45.0 (IdealDog) is named in recognition of Emacs' excellent 
> integration with various programming language environments — thanks to 
> this, Emacspeak is the IDE of choice for eyes-free software engineering.
>     • Emacspeak 44.0 continues the steady pace of innovation on the audio 
> desktop.
>     • Emacspeak 43.0 brings even more end-user efficiency by leveraging the 
> ability to spatially place multiple audio streams to provide timely 
> auditory feedback.
>     • Emacspeak 42.0 while moving to GitHub from Google Code continues to 
> innovate in the areas of auditory user interfaces and efficient, 
> light-weight Internet access.
>     • Emacspeak 41.0 continues to improve on the desire to provide not just 
> equal, but superior access — technology when correctly implemented can 
> significantly enhance the human ability.
>     • Emacspeak 40.0 goes back to Web basics by enabling efficient access 
> to large amounts of readable Web content.
>     • Emacspeak 39.0 continues the Emacspeak tradition of increasing the 
> breadth of user tasks that are covered without introducing unnecessary 
> bloatware.
>     • Emacspeak 38.0 is the latest in a series of award-winning releases 
> from Emacspeak Inc.
>     • Emacspeak 37.0 continues the tradition of delivering robust software 
> as reflected by its code-name.
>     • Emacspeak 36.0 enhances the audio desktop with many new tools 
> including full EPub support — hence the name EPubDog.
>     • Emacspeak 35.0 is all about teaching a new dog old tricks — and is 
> aptly code-named HeadDog in on of our new Press/Analyst contact. 
> emacspeak-34.0 (AKA Bubbles) established a new beach-head with respect to 
> rapid task completion in an eyes-free environment.
>     • Emacspeak-33.0 AKA StarDog brings unparalleled cloud access to the 
> audio desktop.
>     • Emacspeak 32.0 AKA LuckyDog continues to innovate via open 
> technologies for better access.
>     • Emacspeak 31.0 AKA TweetDog — adds tweeting to the Emacspeak desktop.
>     • Emacspeak 30.0 AKA SocialDog brings the Social Web to the audio 
> desktop—you can't but be social if you speak!
>     • Emacspeak 29.0—AKAAbleDog—is a testament to the resilliance and 
> innovation embodied by Open Source software—it would not exist without the 
> thriving Emacs community that continues to ensure that Emacs remains one of 
> the premier user environments despite perhaps also being one of the oldest.
>     • Emacspeak 28.0—AKA PuppyDog—exemplifies the rapid pace of development 
> evinced by Open Source software.
>     • Emacspeak 27.0—AKA FastDog—is the latest in a sequence of upgrades 
> that make previous releases obsolete and downgrades unnecessary.
>     • Emacspeak 26—AKA LeadDog—continues the tradition of introducing 
> innovative access solutions that are unfettered by the constraints inherent 
> in traditional adaptive technologies.
>     • Emacspeak 25 —AKA ActiveDog —re-activates open, unfettered access to 
> online information.
>     • Emacspeak-Alive —AKA LiveDog —enlivens open, unfettered information 
> access with a series of live updates that once again demonstrate the power 
> and agility of open source software development.
>     • Emacspeak 23.0 — AKA Retriever—went the extra mile in fetching full 
> access.
>     • Emacspeak 22.0 —AKA GuideDog —helps users navigate the Web more 
> effectively than ever before.
>     • Emacspeak 21.0 —AKA PlayDog —continued the Emacspeak tradition of 
> relying on enhanced productivity to liberate users.
>     • Emacspeak-20.0 —AKA LeapDog —continues the long established GNU/Emacs 
> tradition of integrated innovation to create a pleasurable computing 
> environment for eyes-free interaction.
>     • emacspeak-19.0 –AKA WorkDog– is designed to enhance user productivity 
> at work and leisure.
>     • Emacspeak-18.0 –code named GoodDog– continued the Emacspeak tradition 
> of enhancing user productivity and thereby reducing total cost of ownership.
>     • Emacspeak-17.0 –code named HappyDog– enhances user productivity by 
> exploiting today's evolving WWW standards.
>     • Emacspeak-16.0 –code named CleverDog– the follow-up to SmartDog– 
> continued the tradition of working better, faster, smarter.
>     • Emacspeak-15.0 –code named SmartDog–followed up on TopDog as the next 
> in a continuing series of award-winning audio desktop releases from 
> Emacspeak Inc.
>     • Emacspeak-14.0 –code named TopDog–was
> the first release of this millennium. 
>     • Emacspeak-13.0 –codenamed YellowLab– was the closing release of the 
> 20th. century.
>     • Emacspeak-12.0 –code named GoldenDog– began leveraging the evolving 
> semantic WWW to provide task-oriented speech access to Webformation.
>     • Emacspeak-11.0 –code named Aster– went the final step in making Linux 
> a zero-cost Internet access solution for blind and visually impaired users.
>     • Emacspeak-10.0 –(AKA Emacspeak-2000) code named WonderDog– continued 
> the tradition of award-winning software releases designed to make eyes-free 
> computing a productive and pleasurable experience.
>     • Emacspeak-9.0 –(AKA Emacspeak 99) code named BlackLab– continued to 
> innovate in the areas of speech interaction and interactive accessibility.
>     • Emacspeak-8.0 –(AKA Emacspeak-98++) code named BlackDog– was a major 
> upgrade to the speech output extension to Emacs.
>     • Emacspeak-95 (code named Illinois) was released as OpenSource 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 integrated Internetworking into all aspects of the audio 
> desktop to provide the first fully interactive speech-enabled WebTop.
> 
> 8. About Emacspeak:
> Originally based at Cornell (NY) — http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman 
> —home to Auditory User Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW, Emacspeak is now 
> maintained on GitHub —https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak. The system is 
> mirrored world-wide by an international network of software archives and 
> bundled voluntarily with all major Linux distributions. On Monday, April 
> 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian's Permanent Research 
> Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum 
> of American History.
> The Emacspeak mailing list is archived at Emacspeak Mail Archive –the home 
> of the Emacspeak mailing list– thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman, and provides a 
> valuable knowledge base for new users.
> 9. Press/Analyst Contact: Tilden Labrador
> Going forward, Aster, Hubbell and Tilden acknowledge their exclusive 
> monopoly on setting the direction of the Emacspeak Audio Desktop (🦮) and 
> promise to exercise their freedom to innovate and her resulting power 
> responsibly (as before) in the interest of all dogs.
> *About This Release:Windows-Free (WF) is a favorite battle-cry of The 
> League Against Forced Fenestration (LAFF). 
> –seehttp://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm for details on the 
> ill-effects of Forced Fenestration.
> CopyWrite )C( Aster, Hubbell and Tilden Labrador. All Writes Reserved. 
> HeadDog (DM), LiveDog (DM), GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM) etc., are 
> Registered Dogmarks of Aster, Hubbell and Tilden Labrador. All other dogs 
> belong to their respective owners.
> Author: T.V Raman
> Created: 2024-05-03 Fri 11:03
> Validate
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