Emacspeak-27.0 (FastDog) Unleashed!
T. V. Raman
raman at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Nov 24 04:37:47 UTC 2007
May you be covered in spots ;-)
>>>>> "David" == David Poehlman <david.poehlman at handsontechnologeyes.com> writes:
David> I think leopard eat dog. On Nov 23, 2007, at 9:08 PM,
David> T. V. Raman wrote:
David>
David> Emacspeak-27.0 (FastDog) Unleashed!
David> ----------------------------------
David>
David> For Immediate Release:
David>
David> San Jose, Calif., (Nov 24, 2007) Emacspeak: Bringing
David> Cutting-Edge Access For Sharp Users --Zero cost of
David> upgrades/downgrades makes priceless software
David> affordable!
David>
David> Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK)
David> --http://emacspeak.sf.net-- announces the immediate
David> world-wide availability of Emacspeak 27.0 --a powerful
David> audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving data and
David> service-oriented semantic Web.
David>
David> Investors Note: ---------------
David>
David> With several prominent analysts expanding coverage,
David> NASDOG: ESPK has now been consistently trading over
David> the net at levels close to that once attained by
David> DogCom high-fliers.
David>
David> What Is It? -----------
David>
David> Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that
David> provides complete eyes-free access to all major 32 and
David> 64 bit operating environments. By seamlessly blending
David> live access to all aspects of the Internet such as
David> Web-surfing, blogging and electronic messaging into
David> the audio desktop, Emacspeak enables speech access to
David> local and remote information with a consistent and
David> well-integrated user interface. A rich suite of
David> task-oriented tools provides efficient speech-enabled
David> access to the evolving service-oriented semantic Web.
David>
David> Major Enhancements: -------------------
David>
David>
David>
David> 1. emacspeak-web: Updated Web interaction. 2.
David> emacspeak-ess: Speech-enables Emacs Statistics
David> Interface 3. Header Line Support: 4. Windows Key Now
David> Stops Speech 5.Smarter mode-line output: 6. Google
David> Suggest provides completion for search queries. 7.
David> Integrated Support For Google Services
David> 8. emacspeak-moz: Firefox integration.
David> 9. Emacspeak-webmarks: Online bookmarks.
David>
David> Plus many more changes too numerous to fit in this
David> margin ...
David>
David> See the NEWS file for additional details.
David>
David> Establishing Liberty, Equality And Freedom:
David> ---------------------
David>
David> Never a toy system, Emacspeak is now voluntarily
David> bundled with all major Linux distributions. Though
David> designed to be modular, distributors have freely
David> chosen to bundle the fully integrated system without
David> any undue pressure --- a documented success for the
David> integrated innovation embodied by the system. As the
David> system evolves, both upgrades and downgrades continue
David> to be available at the same zero-cost to all users.
David> The integrity of the Emacspeak codebase is ensured by
David> the reliable and secure Linux platform used to develop
David> and distribute the software.
David>
David> Extensive studies have shown that thanks to these
David> features, users consider Emacspeak to be absolutely
David> priceless. Thanks to this wide-spread user demand, the
David> present version is being made available at the same
David> zero-cost as earlier releases.
David>
David> At the same time, Emacspeak continues to innovate in
David> the area of speech and multimodal interaction and
David> carries forward the well-established Open Source
David> tradition of introducing user interface features that
David> eventually show up in luser environments.
David>
David> On this theme, when once challenged by a proponent of
David> a crash-prone but well-marketed mousetrap with the
David> assertion "Emacs is a system from the 70's", the
David> creator of Emacspeak evinced surprise at the unusual
David> candor manifest in the assertion that it would take
David> popular idiot-proven interfaces until the year 2070 to
David> catch up to where the Emacspeak audio desktop is
David> today. Industry experts welcomed this refreshing
David> breath of Courage Certainty and Clarity (CCC) at a
David> time when users are reeling from the Fear Uncertainty
David> and Doubt (FUD) unleashed by complex software systems
David> backed by even more convoluted press releases.
David>
David> Independent Test Results: -------------------------
David>
David> Independent test results have proven that unlike some
David> modern (and not so modern) software, Emacspeak can be
David> safely uninstalled without adversely affecting the
David> continued performance of the computer. These same
David> tests also revealed that once uninstalled, the user
David> stopped functioning altogether. Speaking with Aster
David> Labrador, the creator of Emacspeak once pointed out
David> that these results re-emphasize the user-centric
David> design of Emacspeak; "It is the user --and not the
David> computer-- that stops functioning when Emacspeak is
David> uninstalled!".
David>
David> Note from Aster and Bubbles:
David> ----------------------------
David>
David> UnDoctored Videos Inc. is still looking for volunteers
David> to star in a video demonstrating such complete user
David> failure.
David>
David> Obtaining Emacspeak: --------------------
David>
David> Emacspeak can be downloaded from Google Code Hosting
David> --see http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak/ You can
David> visit Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net.
David> You can subscribe to the emacspeak mailing list
David> emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu by sending mail to the list
David> request address emacspeak-request at cs.vassar.edu. The
David> latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is available
David> via Subversion from Google Code Hosting at
David> http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
David>
David> History: --------
David>
David> Emacspeak 27.0 --- AKA FastDog --- is the latest in a
David> sequence of upgrades that make previous releases
David> obsolete and downgrades unnecessary. Emacspeak 26 ---
David> AKA LeadDog --- continues the tradition of introducing
David> innovative access solutions that are unfettered by the
David> constraints inherent in traditional adaptive
David> technologies. Emacspeak 25 -- AKA ActiveDog --
David> re-activates open, unfettered access to online
David> information. Emacspeak-Alive -- AKA LiveDog --
David> enlivens open, unfettered information access with a
David> series of live updates that once again demonstrate the
David> power and agility of open source software development.
David> Emacspeak 23.0 -- AKA Retriever --- went the extra
David> mile in fetching full access. Emacspeak 22.0 -- AKA
David> GuideDog -- helps users navigate the Web more
David> effectively than ever before. Emacspeak 21.0 -- AKA
David> PlayDog -- continued the Emacspeak tradition of
David> relying on enhanced productivity to liberate users.
David> Emacspeak-20.0 -- AKA LeapDog -- continues the long
David> established GNU/Emacs tradition of integrated
David> innovation to create a pleasurable computing
David> environment for eyes-free interaction. emacspeak-19.0
David> --AKA WorkDog-- is designed to enhance user
David> productivity at work and leisure. Emacspeak-18.0
David> --code named GoodDog-- continued the Emacspeak
David> tradition of enhancing user productivity and thereby
David> reducing total cost of ownership. Emacspeak-17.0
David> --code named HappyDog-- enhances user productivity by
David> exploiting today's evolving WWW
David> standards. Emacspeak-16.0 --code named CleverDog-- the
David> follow-up to SmartDog-- continued the tradition of
David> working better, faster, smarter. Emacspeak-15.0 --code
David> named SmartDog--followed up on TopDog as the next in a
David> continuing a series of award-winning audio desktop
David> releases from Emacspeak Inc. Emacspeak-14.0 --code
David> named TopDog--was the first release of this
David> millennium. Emacspeak-13.0 --codenamed YellowLab-- was
David> the closing release of the
David> 20th. century. Emacspeak-12.0 --code named GoldenDog--
David> began leveraging the evolving semantic WWW to provide
David> task-oriented speech access to
David> Webformation. Emacspeak-11.0 --code named Aster-- went
David> the final step in making Linux a zero-cost Internet
David> access solution for blind and visually impaired
David> users. Emacspeak-10.0 --(AKA Emacspeak-2000) code
David> named WonderDog-- continued the tradition of
David> award-winning software releases designed to make
David> eyes-free computing a productive and pleasurable
David> experience. Emacspeak-9.0 --(AKA Emacspeak 99) code
David> named BlackLab-- continued to innovate in the areas of
David> speech interaction and interactive
David> accessibility. Emacspeak-8.0 --(AKA Emacspeak-98++)
David> code named BlackDog-- was a major upgrade to the
David> speech output extension to Emacs.
David>
David> Emacspeak-95 (code named Illinois) was released as
David> OpenSource on the Internet in May 1995 as the first
David> complete speech interface to UNIX workstations. The
David> subsequent release, Emacspeak-96 (code named Egypt)
David> made available in May 1996 provided significant
David> enhancements to the interface. Emacspeak-97
David> (Tennessee) went further in providing a true audio
David> desktop. Emacspeak-98 integrated Internetworking into
David> all aspects of the audio desktop to provide the first
David> fully interactive speech-enabled WebTop.
David>
David> About Emacspeak: ----------------
David>
David> Originally based at Cornell (NY)
David> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman --home to
David> Auditory User Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW-- Emacspeak
David> is now maintained on GoogleCode
David> --http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak -- and
David> Sourceforge -- http://emacspeak.sf.net. The system is
David> mirrored world-wide by an international network of
David> software archives and bundled voluntarily with all
David> major Linux distributions. On Monday, April 12, 1999,
David> Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian's Permanent
David> Research Collection on Information Technology at the
David> Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
David>
David> The Emacspeak mailing list is archived at Vassar --the
David> home of the Emacspeak mailing list-- thanks to Greg
David> Priest-Dorman, and provides a valuable knowledge base
David> for new users.
David>
David> Press/Analyst Contact: Hubbell Labrador
David>
David> Going forward, BubbleDog acknowledges her exclusive
David> monopoly on setting the direction of the Emacspeak
David> Audio Desktop, and promises to exercise this freedom
David> to innovate and her resulting power responsibly (as
David> before) in the interest of all dogs.
David>
David> About This Release: ------------------
David>
David> Windows-Free (WF) is a favorite battle-cry of The
David> League Against Forced Fenestration (LAFF). --see
David> http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm for
David> details on the ill-effects of Forced Fenestration.
David>
David> CopyWrite )C( Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All Writes
David> Reserved. LiveDog (DM), GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM)
David> etc., are Registered Dogmarks of Aster and Hubbell
David> Labrador. All other dogs belong to their respective
David> owners.
David>
David> -- Best Regards, --raman
David>
David>
David> Email: raman at users.sf.net WWW:
David> http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk:
David> tv.raman.tv at gmail.com PGP:
David> http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
David> Google: tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs
David>
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Best Regards,
--raman
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