Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:06:17 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.1 Last-modified: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 21:44:12 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 5988 Emacspeak --A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs

Emacspeak --A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs

Announcing Emacspeak, a full-fledged speech output interface to Emacs.
Emacspeak is the first full-fledged speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system. (Until now, the only option available to visually impaired users has been to use a talking PC as a terminal.) Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once you start emacs with emacspeak loaded, you get spoken feedback for everything you do. Your mileage will vary depending on how well you can use Emacs.There is nothing that you cannot do inside Emacs:-)

Publications And Talks

Emacspeak Mailing List

There is a mailing list emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu that is being used to disseminate information about emacspeak. If you use Emacspeak, you can subscribe by sending email to greg e. priest-dorman. See the news pagefor details on what's new in the latest release of Emacspeak.

Description

I currently use Emacspeak at work on my Sparc20 workstation running SUNOS4.1; while at Digital I used Emacspeak on my DECALPHA workstation running Digital UNIX. I also use Emacspeak as the only speech output system on my laptop running Linux. As a useful addition, contains the necessary files to make Emacs easier to use at the Linux console. Emacspeak currently supports the new Dectalk Express speech synthesizer, as well as older versions of the Dectalk e.g. the MultiVoice. On the DECALPHA, you can use it with the software Dectalk. (If you have a DECALPHA and also have software Dectalk installed at your site, please get in touch with Krishna Mangipudi --Digital.

You need GNU FSF Emacs 19 (version 19.23 or later) and TCLX 7.3B (Extended TCL) to run Emacspeak. TCLX --the executable is called tcl on most systems-- is *not* plain tcl --typically called tclsh on most systems. See the Emacspeak distribution for additional details.

See the latest release notes to see what is new in the latest release. You can download Emacspeak (390K) from this page.

For a list of frequently asked questions about Emacspeak along with their answers, see the Emacspeak FAQ. Emacspeak comes with full source level documentation. There is an online info manual as well, but this is still incomplete.

Emacs Subsystems

Emacspeak currently has extensions for many popular Emacs subsystems including: Emacspeak also works well with Emacs addons like AUCTEX for editing TeX documents, the Emacs Calculator (CALC --a symbolic algebra system) etc.

Emacspeak works fluently with all Emacs addons; writing an extension makes its use even more pleasurable. If you would like to write an Emacspeak addon for your favorite package please get in touch with me so we do not end up duplicating work.

Support For Emacspeak

Emacspeak comes as is, please see the accompanying Copyright notice. See the READMEfile for details about this release and how to install Emacspeak on your system.

I work on Emacspeak in my spare time, and may not be able to answer questions on Emacspeak immediately. If you do download and use Emacspeak, please subscribe to the mailing list emacspeak@adobe.comby sending a message to emacspeak-request@adobe.com.


T. V. Raman raman@adobe.com
Last modified: Fri Nov 22 13:41:59 1996