Emacspeak 34.0 (Bubbles)
Rob Harris
robh at apearl.net
Fri May 13 07:06:09 UTC 2011
It's a pity one couldn't just go out and buy a machine with this on and
already working. I've often wanted to try it, but getting someone either
tech enough or will listen enough to install it is usually beyond most
folks ken. As a related aside, hwich speech engine or interface is on
the VInux distros? I know you're meant to press a key or osmething to
bring that up talking, but never got it to do it, though it is a long
time since I tried.
Recommandation of which distro would this be best on including how to get
it on and up quickest and easiest.
Thanks, RobH at Work.
Note: I once had SlackWare9 and Speakup!
> * Emacspeak-34.0 (Bubbles) Unleashed!
>
>
> ** For Immediate Release:
>
> San Jose, Calif., (May 13, 2011)
> Emacspeak: Redefining Accessibility In The Era Of Cloud Computing
> --Zero cost of upgrades/downgrades makes priceless software
> affordable!
>
> Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) --http://emacspeak.sf.net--
> announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak
> 34.0 (Bubbles) --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving
> data, social and service-oriented Web cloud.
> ** Code Name Note
>
> After 11+ years of loyal service, Hubbell Labrador retired from
> active duty as a guide-dog on April 4,2011; she stayed on as
> Emacspeak's press contact for another week before finally leaving
> us on April 11, 2011
> —
> [[http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/hubbell-labrador/epitaph.html][Epitaph]].
> This release is code named Bubbles in honour of her
> unflagging service over these last 11 years.
>
> ** Investors Note:
>
>
> With several prominent tweeters expanding coverage of _#emacspeak_,
> NASDOG: ESPK
> has now been consistently trading over the net at levels close
> to that once attained by DogCom high-fliers—and as of
> October 2009 is trading at levels close to that achieved by
> once better known stocks in the tech sector.
>
> ** 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 Web-surfing, blogging, social computing
> and electronic messaging into the audio desktop, Emacspeak
> enables speech 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 service-oriented social Web cloud.
>
> ** Major Enhancements:
>
> 1. Updated URL Templates for rapid Web access. â™
> 2. Support for twittering-mode—including logins using OAuth. â—
> 3. API Client for NPR programming. 🔘
> 4. Librivox API client. 📚
> 5. Emacs 24 support ♺
> 6. Speech server support for Mac OS.
>
>
>
> Plus many more changes too numerous to fit in this margin ... ∞
>
> ** 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
> used to develop and distribute the software.
>
> 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 priceless
> 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 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.
>
> ** 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!".
>
> *** Note from Aster and Bubbles:
>
>
> UnDoctored Videos Inc. is looking for volunteers to star in a
> video demonstrating such complete user failure.
>
> ** Obtaining Emacspeak:
>
>
> Emacspeak can be downloaded from Google Code Hosting --see
> http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak/ You can visit
> Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net. You can subscribe
> to the emacspeak mailing list emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu by sending
> mail to the list request address emacspeak-request at cs.vassar.edu.
> The StarDog release is at
> [[http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/files/emacspeak-34.0.tar.bz2]].
> The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is available via
> Subversion from Google Code Hosting at
> http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
>
> ** History:
> 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 cant
> 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 a
> 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.
>
> 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
> GoogleCode --http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak —and
> Sourceforge —http://emacspeak.sf.net. 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 Vassar --the home of the
> Emacspeak mailing list-- thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman, and provides a
> valuable knowledge base for new users.
>
> * Press/Analyst Contact: Hubbell Labrador
>
> Going forward, BubbleDog acknowledges her exclusive monopoly on
> setting the direction of the Emacspeak Audio Desktop, and
> promises to exercise this 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). --see
> http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm for details on
> the ill-effects of Forced Fenestration.
>
> CopyWrite )C( Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All Writes Reserved.
> LiveDog (DM), GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM) etc., are Registered
> Dogmarks of Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All other dogs belong to
> their respective owners.
> #+TITLE: Emacspeak 34.0—Bubbles—Unleashed!
> #+AUTHOR: T.V Raman
> #+EMAIL: tv.raman.tv at gmail.com#+DATE: 2009-11-25 Wed
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> --
> Best Regards,
> --raman
>
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