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11-26-2005, 08:35 AM
San Jose, Calif., (Nov 26, 2005)
Emacspeak-2005: Retrieving Complete Access For Enlightened Users --Zero cost of ownership makes priceless software affordable!
Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) --http://emacspeak.sf.net-- announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 23.0 --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving data and service-oriented semantic Web.
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 all aspects of the Internet such as Web Services, Web-surfing 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 semantic Web.
Major Enhancements:
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0) Alsa-powered speech server for software synthesis.
1) Speech-enables emacs-jabber.
2) New ssh-powered remote TTS servers.
3) Atom support.
4) Updated smart URLs including Blog Search
5) Updated search wizards including PodCast search.
See the NEWS file for additional details.
Establishing Liberty, Equality And Freedom:
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Never a toy system, Emacspeak is now 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 the system. 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 is being made available at the same zero-cost as earlier releases.
At the same time, Emacspeak-2005 continues to innovate in the area of speech and multimodal 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 windowing system 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:
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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 computer-- that stops functioning when Emacspeak is uninstalled!".
Obtaining Emacspeak:
--------------------
Emacspeak can be downloaded from sourceforge --see http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/emacspeak/ You can visit
Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net. You can subscribe
to the emacspeak mailing list emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu by sending
mail to the list request address emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu.
The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is available via anonymous CVS from sourceforge.
Emacspeak-2005: Retrieving Complete Access For Enlightened Users --Zero cost of ownership makes priceless software affordable!
Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) --http://emacspeak.sf.net-- announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 23.0 --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving data and service-oriented semantic Web.
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 all aspects of the Internet such as Web Services, Web-surfing 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 semantic Web.
Major Enhancements:
-------------------
0) Alsa-powered speech server for software synthesis.
1) Speech-enables emacs-jabber.
2) New ssh-powered remote TTS servers.
3) Atom support.
4) Updated smart URLs including Blog Search
5) Updated search wizards including PodCast search.
See the NEWS file for additional details.
Establishing Liberty, Equality And Freedom:
---------------------
Never a toy system, Emacspeak is now 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 the system. 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 is being made available at the same zero-cost as earlier releases.
At the same time, Emacspeak-2005 continues to innovate in the area of speech and multimodal 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 windowing system 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!".
Obtaining Emacspeak:
--------------------
Emacspeak can be downloaded from sourceforge --see http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/emacspeak/ You can visit
Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net. You can subscribe
to the emacspeak mailing list emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu by sending
mail to the list request address emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu.
The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is available via anonymous CVS from sourceforge.