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Emacspeak News --History Of User-Visible Changes
$Id: NEWS,v 11.0 1999/11/29 16:58:57 raman Exp $
Author: T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu>
* Emacspeak 11.0 Additions And Changes:
Emacspeak 11.0 provides the following user level enhancements:
*Software speech synthesis:
**Emacspeak now supports the IBM ViaVoice Outloud
Beta for Linux. See file linux-outloud/NOTES
for installation instructions and usage notes.
* Enhancements to single click Websearch: emacspeak-websearch.el
Module emacspeak-websearch provides single click WWW search
functionality from anywhere on the Emacspeak audio desktop.
This release adds support for a few more popular search
engines --see command emacspeak-websearch-dispatch bound to
`C-e ?'.
* Dired Mode Enhancements:
** Command emacspeak-dired-speak-file-size speaks the size
of a directory when invoked on a directory line.
** Command emacspeak-dired-show-file-type
(bound to "'") displays the type of the current file.
* Enhancements to PSGML mode:
** Emacspeak now provides simple voice locking for SGML and
XML documents.
*Enhancements to emacspeak-sounds.el:
**Added support for midi icons. If you have a functioning
/dev/sequencer, you can have emacspeak produce auditory
icons using midi synthesis instead of playing wave files.
Note You need to obtain and install package stdiosynth from
http://www.leb.net/pub/blinux/emacspeak/blinux/stdiom.tar.gz
the documentation in file emacspeak-sounds.el
* Speech-enabled support for midge-mode:
Midge is a perl utility for composing and playing midi
files.
Midge-mode is a major mode for editting midge files.
*Single click CD player:
** Emacspeak provides single click access
to playing audio CDs --see command `cd-tool'
bound by default to `C-e DEL'.
This allows you to play, stop or skip tracks on the CD.
If you have package cdda2wav installed, you can also play
or save selected clips from a CD.
*Single click access to the sound mixer:
**You can set various characteristics of the sound device
via command `emacspeak-aumix' bound to "C-e(".
*Speech-enabled MPG player:
**Emacspeak now speech-enables mpg123.el --an emacs
front-end to the popular mpg123 MP3 player.
*Speech-enabled reftex mode:
**Allows you to browse structured TeX and LaTeX source
documents.
*Speech-enabled BabelFish:
**Module emacspeak-babel.el speech-enables an Emacs
interface to Babel-Fish
--use this to get documents translated via the Internet.
*Speech-enabled RPM support:
**Speech-enabled support for browsing the various packages
installed on a Linux system.
* GnuPlot: Speech-enabled gnuplot mode
Emacspeak now speech-enables gnuplot-mode --an Emacs
interface to the gnuplot plotting utility.
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