[NFBCS] Announcing Emacspeak 57.0 (Tilden)

[David Andrews]

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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 57.0—Tilden!
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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! 🦮
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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) 🦮 — 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-fliers—and 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. 📢
>    * 
> <https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2022/10/learn-smarter-by-taking-rich-hypertext.html>Learn 
> Smarter By Taking Rich, Hypertext Notes. 🏫
>    * Integrated Youtube player using mpv. 📹
>    * Leverage Emacs Repeat-Mode to minimize chording. ⌨
>    * Speech-Enable NotMuch mail. 📪
>    * Screen brightness with module light. ðŸ”

>    * Emacspeak Auditory Display Under Pulseaudio 🔊
>    * Speciality browsers for various types of bookmarks. 📑
>    * 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 pressure—a 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 ever—it 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; “It is the 
>user — and not the compputer– that stops 
>functioning when Emacspeak is uninsttalled!”.
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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.🚭: 
> 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 desktop—you can't but be social if you speak!!
>        * Emacspeak 29.0—AKAAbleDog—is a 
> testament to to the resilliance and innovation 
> embodied by Open Source software—it 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 28.0—AKA 
> PuppyyDog—exemplifies the rapid pace of 
> development evinced bby Open Source software.
>        * Emacspeak 27.0—AKA FasttDog—is the 
> latest in a sequence of upgrades that make 
> pprevious releases obsolete and downgrades unnecessary.
>        * Emacspeak 26—AKA LeadDog—continues the 
> traditionion 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 
> 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 Retriever—went 
> 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 
> â—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 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 
> SmartDog–followed up on TopDopDog as the next 
> in a continuing series of award-winning audio 
> desktop releases from Emacspeak Inc.
>        * Emacspeak-14.0 –code named TopDog–was
>    the firstrst release of this millennium.
>        * Emacspeak-13.0 –codenamed YellowLab– 
> was the closinsing release of the 20th. century.
>        * Emacspeak-12.0 –code 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 –(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 —