[NFBCS] Announcing Emacspeak 57.0 (Tilden)
David Andrews
dandrews920 at comcast.net
Sun Nov 27 20:52:49 UTC 2022
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>EMACSPEAK The Complete Audio Desktop - Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 5:31 PM
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>Announcing Emacspeak 57.0 (Tilden)
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>Announcing Emacspeak 57.0Tilden!
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>Tilden
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>Easy things are often amusing and relaxing, but
>their value soon fades. Greater pleasure, deeper
>satisfaction, and higher wages are associated
>with genuine accomplishments, with the
>successful fulfillment of a challenging task. Donald Knuth
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>1. For Immediate Release:
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>San Jose, CA, (November 23, 2022)
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>1.1. Emacspeak 57.0 (Tilden) Unleashed! ð¦®
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> Making Accessible Commputing Effortless!
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>Advancing Accessibility In The Age Of User-Aware
>Interfaces Zero cost of Ownership makes
>priceless software Universally affordable!
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>Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK)
><http://github.ccom/tvraman/emacspeak>http://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak
>announces immediate world-wide availability of
><https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/releases/download/57.0/emacspeak-57.0.tar.bz2>Emacspeak
>57.0 (Tilden) 𦮠a powerful audio desktop
>that leverages todday's evolving Data, Social
>and Assistant-Oriented Internet cloud to enable
>working efficiently and effectively from anywhere!
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>2. Investors Note:
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>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-fliersand is trading at
>levels close too that achieved by once better known stocks in the tech sector.
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>3. What Is It?
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>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, social computing 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.
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>4. Major Enhancements:
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> * Speech server for software DECTalk. ð¢
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> <https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2022/10/learn-smarter-by-taking-rich-hypertext.html>Learn
> Smarter By Taking Rich, Hypertext Notes. ð«
> * Integrated Youtube player using mpv. ð¹
> * Leverage Emacs Repeat-Mode to minimize chording. â¨
> * Speech-Enable NotMuch mail. ðª
> * Screen brightness with module light. ð
> * Emacspeak Auditory Display Under Pulseaudio ð
> * Speciality browsers for various types of bookmarks. ð
> * Sounds Themes Using OGG. â And a lot
> more than will fit this margin.
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>Note: This version requires emacs-28.1 or later.
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>5. Establishing Liberty, Equality And Freedom:
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>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 pressurea documented
>success for the inntegrated 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.
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>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 everit is being made avvailable at the
>same zero-cost as previous releases.
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>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.
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>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.
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>6. Independent Test Results:
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>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; âIt is the
>user and not the compputer that stops
>functioning when Emacspeak is uninsttalled!â.
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>6.1. Note from Aster,Bubbles and Tilden:
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>UnDoctored Videos Inc. is looking for volunteers
>to star in a video demonstrating such complete user failure.
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>7. Obtaining Emacspeak:
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>Emacspeak can be downloaded from GitHub see
><httpps://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak>https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak
>you can visit Emacspeak on the WWW at
><http://emacspeak.sf.net>http://emacspeak.sf.net.
> You can subscribe to the emacspeak mailing
>list
><http://mail.emacspeak.org>emacspeak at emacsspeak.org.
>The <http://emacspeak.blogspot.com>Emacspeak
>Blog is a good source for news about recent enhancements and how to use them.
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>The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is
>always available at <https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak>GitHub.
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>8. History:
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> * Emacspeak 57.0 is named in honor of
> <https://tvraman.github.io/tilden-face.jpg>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
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>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.ð:
> 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 technoloogy when correctly
> implemented can significantly enhance the human ability.
> * Emacspeak 40.0 goes back to Web basics
> by enabling
> <http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2013/11/reading-web-content-efficiently.html>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 alll about teaching
> a new dog old tricks and is aptly coode-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 desktopyou can't but be social if you speak!!
> * Emacspeak 29.0AKAAbleDogis a
> testament to to the resilliance and innovation
> embodied by Open Source softwareit would not
> exist without the thriving Emacs coommunity
> that continues to ensure that Emacs remains one
> of the premier user environments despite perhaps also being one of the oldest.
> * Emacspeak 28.0AKA
> PuppyyDogexemplifies the rapid pace of
> development evinced bby Open Source software.
> * Emacspeak 27.0AKA FasttDogis the
> latest in a sequence of upgrades that make
> pprevious releases obsolete and downgrades unnecessary.
> * Emacspeak 26AKA LeadDogcontinues the
> traditionion of introducing innovative access
> solutions that are unfettered by the
> constraints inherent in traditional adaptive technologies.
> * Emacspeak 25 AKA ActiveDog
> âre-activates open, unfettered access to online information.
> * Emacspeak-Alive AKA LiveDog enlivens
> opeopen, 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 Retrieverwent
> the extra mile in fetching fulfull access.
> * Emacspeak 22.0 AKA GuideDog helpslps
> users navigate the Web more effectively than ever before.
> * Emacspeak 21.0 AKA PlayDog continued
> the he Emacspeak tradition of relying on
> enhanced productivity to liberate users.
> * Emacspeak-20.0 AKA LeapDog
> ââcontinues 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 productictivity at work and leisure.
> * Emacspeak-18.0 code named GoodDog
> continued the Emacspeak tradition of enhhancing
> user productivity and thereby reducing total cost of ownership.
> * Emacspeak-17.0 code named HappyDDog
> enhances user productivity by exploiting today's evvolving WWW standards.
> * Emacspeak-16.0 code nameed CleverDog
> the follow-up to SmartDog continued thethe
> tradition of working better, faster, smarter.
> * Emacspeak-15.0 code named
> SmartDogfollowed up on TopDopDog as the next
> in a continuing series of award-winning audio
> desktop releases from Emacspeak Inc.
> * Emacspeak-14.0 code named TopDogwas
> the firstrst release of this millennium.
> * Emacspeak-13.0 codenamed YellowLab
> was the closinsing release of the 20th. century.
> * Emacspeak-12.0 âcode named
> GoldenDog began leveraging the evolving
> seemantic WWW to provide task-oriented speech access to Webformation.
> * Emacspeak-11.0 code named Aster w
> 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 WoonderDog continued the tradition
> of award-winning softwware releases designed to
> make eyes-free computing a productive and pleasurable experience.
> * Emacspeak-9.0 â(AKA Emacspeak 99)
> code named BlackLab continued to innovate in
> the areas of speech interaction and interactive accessibility.
> * Emacspeak-8.0 (AKA Emacspeakk-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.
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> 9. About Emacspeak:
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> Originally based at Cornell (NY)
> <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman>http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman
> home to Auditory User Innterfaces (AUI) on the
> WWW, Emacspeak is now maintained on GitHub
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