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<h1>Speech-enabled Applications On The Emacspeak Desktop </h1>
<p>
This document enumerates the speech-enabled applications available on the Emacspeak desktop.
Note that depending on your Emacs installation,
you may need to download and install extra applications to
avail yourself of all of the features of the Emacspeak audio
desktop.
Emacs applications can be located via the various Emacs Lisp
archives or by using popular WWW search engines. For
one such comprehensive index, see
the <a href="http://anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html" shape="rect">
the Emacs Lisp Library</a>.
</p>
<h2>Applications List</h2>
<p>
Here is a complete list of speech-enabled applications available under the latest Emacspeak release.
</p>
<table>
<caption>Speech-enabled applications on the Emacspeak audio desktop.</caption>
<tr><td colspan="2">Multimedia</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>aumix</td>
<td>
Emacspeak front-end for configuring the
auditory display.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cd-tool</td>
<td>
Control CD player from anywhere on the audio desktop.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>freeamp</td>
<td>
Ubiquitous access to Freeamp mp3 with a single
keystroke.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>mpg123</td>
<td>
Play mp3 files, with keyboard access to all functions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>realaudio</td>
<td>
Play RealAudio, RealMedia and mp3 streams. Includes
presets for single click access to
favorite streams.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>midge</td>
<td>
Compose and play MIDI files.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Document Authoring</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>xae</td>
<td>
XML authoring environment based on PSGML and XSL.
Enables structured document authoring and interactive preview.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>psgml</td>
<td>
Environment for authoring and maintaining XML and SGML
documents.
Provides structured authoring support including
context-sensitive help based on current DTD.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tdtd</td>
<td>Author and maintain XML and
SGML DTD files.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>auctex</td>
<td>
Authoring environment for TeX
and LaTeX documents;
template based authoring, voice locking support and structured browsing.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>bibtex</td>
<td>
Maintain BIBTeX bibliographies.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>reftex</td>
<td>
Browse cross-references in LaTeX
documents.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>texinfo</td>
<td>Authoring support for creating texinfo
documentation. Texinfo enables the production of both
online hypertext and high-quality print documentation
from a single source.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>metapost</td>
<td>
Speech-enabled metapost mode for creating drawings using the
metapost language.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>enriched</td>
<td>
Rich-text authoring to provide a simple word
processor.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Messaging</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>vm</td>
<td>
Mail reader featuring full mime support.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>bbdb</td>
<td>
Manages email addresses and other contact information by
seamlessly integrating with messaging applications.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>eudc</td>
<td>
Universal Directory Client including LDAP support and
seamless integration with messaging applications.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>gnus</td>
<td>
Usenet news and email client
with support for exotic information backends such as
Slashdot etc.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>message</td>
<td>
Email composition from
within other applications.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>supercite</td>
<td>
Enables flexible citations when composing email.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tnt</td>
<td>
Instant Messenger (AIM) client,
with support for multiple parallel chat sessions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>erc</td>
<td>
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client
with voice locking support and parallel chat sessions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>mspools</td>
<td>
Interface for working with multiple mail spools;
allows easy browsing of automatically archived mail.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>mh-e</td>
<td>
Interface to the MH suite of email tools.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>rmail</td>
<td>
Email client.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">General Productivity Applications</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>search-and-replace</td>
<td>
Speech-enabled incremental search
is available throughout the audio desktop.
Audio formatting is used to aurally highlight search hits,
and is used to advantage when providing spoken
feedback during search and replace. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>bs</td>
<td>
Tool for locating open buffers on the audio desktop.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>buff-menu</td>
<td>
Browsing and selecting buffers on the audio desktop.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>buff-sel</td>
<td>
Interactive selection of buffers on the audio desktop.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>yasg</td>
<td>
Pattern-based selection of open buffers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>browse-kill-ring</td>
<td>
Speech-enabled browsable kill ring.
Allows easy browsing of Emacs' builtin clipboard faclity.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>calc</td>
<td>
Calculator with financial and
scientific functions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>gnuplot</td>
<td>
Front-end to Gnuplot for plotting graphs; integrates with
the symbolic calculator.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>calculator</td>
<td>
Simple but powerful desktop calculator.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>calendar</td>
<td>
Desktop calendar with an integrated appointment book.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>custom</td>
<td>
Intuitive interface to customize Emacs' extensive set of
customization options.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dictation</td>
<td>
Front-end to IBM ViaVoice dictation engine;
spoken text is recognized using Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR),
inserted into the current context and
spoken back using Text To Speech.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dictionary</td>
<td>
Access dictionary servers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>babel</td>
<td>
Access Internet translation services.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dired</td>
<td>
Browse and operate on files and folders.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>find-dired</td>
<td>
Seamless integration between the file browser and
finder.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>locate</td>
<td>
File browser interface for finding files.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>finder</td>
<td>
Package browser for locating installed applications.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>rpm</td>
<td>
Client for browsing installed RPM packages.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ediff</td>
<td>
Interface for browsing diff output;
enables easy merging of different file versions, applying
patches etc.
Voice locking is used to advantage in
aurally highlighting the differences.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>shell</td>
<td>
Runs interactive command interpreters like BASH and TCSH.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ansi-colors</td>
<td>
Applies Aural CSS ACSS properties to convert ansi color
codes to appropriate voice changes to produce
audio formatted output.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>eterm</td>
<td>
Speech-enabled terminal client for running full-screen
applications like VI, Lynx and PINE.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ssh</td>
<td>
Front-end to SSH.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>efs</td>
<td>
Front-end to remote file access using an FTP
back-end.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tramp</td>
<td>
Front-end to remote file access using SSH backend.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>eshell</td>
<td>
Command shell implemented in Emacs Lisp, making it
independent of the underlying operating system.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>outline</td>
<td>
Context-sensitive outline support for browsing documents.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>folding</td>
<td>
Application for structuring and later obtaining
structured views of files.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>forms</td>
<td>
Forms-based interface for manipulating structured data.
Useful for system administration tasks such as managing
password databases and browsing log files.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>filtertext</td>
<td>
Emacspeak client for progressively filtering text.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>gridtext</td>
<td>
Emacspeak client for overlaying grids on text.
Useful in browsing log files and other text output that has
columnar structure.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>hide</td>
<td>
Emacspeak client for hiding and exposing blocks of text.
Blocks are automatically recognized by lines having a common
prefix.
This is used to advantage in imposing dialog structure on
email conversations, skipping blocks of commented code etc.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>hyperbole</td>
<td>
Information management system.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>imenu</td>
<td>
Generates context-sensitive table of contents.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>info</td>
<td>
Emacs' online hypertext documentation system.
Emacspeak uses audio formatting to highlight menus and hyperlinks.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>man</td>
<td>
UNIX online manual browser with full aural highlighting and
structured browsing.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>howto</td>
<td>
Emacspeak wizard for browsing Linux HOWTO documents.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ispell</td>
<td>
Front-end to interactive spell checker.
Errors are aurally highlighted and available corrections
automatically spoken.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>flyspell</td>
<td>
Interactive spell checker that aurally and visually
highlights misspelled words as they are typed.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>net-utils</td>
<td>
Front-end to networking tools.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>oo-browser</td>
<td>
Tool for browsing object oriented software codebases.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ocr</td>
<td>
Emacs front-end to OCR engines.
This module provides speech-enabled access to image
aquisition and document recognition tools
available on the underlying platform.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>vc</td>
<td>
Front-end to version control systems like CVS and RCS.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pcl-cvs</td>
<td>
Front-end for working with CVS repositories.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pronounce</td>
<td>
Emacspeak client for defining custom pronunciations.
Pronunciations can be defined on a per-file, per-directory,
or per-mode basis and persisted across sessions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>remote</td>
<td>
Emacspeak client for running remote sessions.
Like the X windows system, Emacspeak supports a
remote speech server, allowing an Emacspeak
session running on a remote machine to send speech
output to a server running on the local machine.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>sawfish</td>
<td>
Speech-enables the Sawfish window-manager.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>speedbar</td>
<td>
Context-sensitive browsing tool.
Provides seamless browsing of the entire file system or a
single file with the same consistent interface.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dismal</td>
<td>
Spread-sheet application with suport for customizing
spoken feedback on a per-sheet basis.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>table-ui</td>
<td>
Emacspeak's rich table browsing interface.
See Auditory User Interfaces (AUI) at
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/aui/aui.html
for the theoretical underpinnings of this interface.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tar</td>
<td>
Front-end for browsing tar,
jar and zip archives.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>view</td>
<td>
File browser for reading etexts.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>bookmark</td>
<td>
Create bookmarks that persist across Emacs sessions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>view-process</td>
<td>
Front-end for monitoring and controlling processes.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>w3</td>
<td>
Standards-compliant WWW browser with Aural CSS support.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>url-template</td>
<td>
Emacspeak client that provides programmable URL templates.
Pre-defined templates offer easy access to W3C mailing
lists, CNN sites etc.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>websearch</td>
<td>
Emacspeak websearch client with single click access to
popular search engines.
Once selected, the searcher prompts for the relevant input,
performs the search, and speaks the result.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>wizards</td>
<td>
Emacspeak wizards for performing common tasks.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clipboard</td>
<td>
Emacspeak clipboard for cut and paste among different
emacspeak sessions, possibly running on different hosts.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>help</td>
<td>
Speech-enabled online help across the audio desktop.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> Software Development </td></tr>
<tr>
<td>jde</td>
<td>
Java Development Environment with interactive debugging
support using the Java Platform Debug Architecture
(JPDA). Provides a speech-enabled inspector and wizards.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ecb</td>
<td>
Emacs Class Browser with support for Java, C++, C
and other popular languages.
Provides navigable table of contents as well as a browsable method and
function index for the file being editted.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>gud</td>
<td>
Unified debugger front-end.
Allows interactive debugging with fluent spoken feedback.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>c</td>
<td>
Editting support for C, C++ and related languages with full aural
highlighting and semantic support.
Provides contextual spoken feedback using semantic context
of code being editted.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>compile</td>
<td>
Front-end to running batch compiles.
Provides easy navigation through the lines containing errors.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>perl</td>
<td>
Editting support for Perl.
Features aural highlighting and easy access to
online help.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>python</td>
<td>
Editting support for interactive Python development.
Features aural highlighting, structured browsing and debugging.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tcl</td>
<td>
Support for interactive TCL development including aural highlighting,
structured browsing and interactive help.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>sql</td>
<td>
support for SQL including aural highlighting and interactive
SQL development.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>generic</td>
<td>
Editting support for JavaScript and Apache configuration files
with voice locking and structured navigation.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>hideshow</td>
<td>
Hiding and showing blocks of C code.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>make-mode</td>
<td>
Editting support for creating and maintaining Makefiles.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>sh-script</td>
<td>
Editting support for shell scripts.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tempo</td>
<td>
Support for creating and filling-in templates.
Used to implement wizards in JDE, HTML helper mode and friends.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dmacro</td>
<td>
Dynamic macro package for template-based editting.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Distractions</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>entertain</td>
<td>
Speech-enabled access to numerous games including Dungeon,
gomoku, solitaire,tetris,
and Hangman.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>
Many shell-based tools., e.g., the napster.pl from
Lincoln Stein's Napster package can be run effectively
from within an Emacs shell. In such cases, Emacspeak
utilities like <em>filtertext</em> and
<em>gridtext</em> can be used to advantage in
efficiently scanning and filtering the program output.
Finally, note that when using full screen applications
like PINE and Lynx when run within the Emacs terminal
emulator (provided by package eterm) Emacspeak
functions like a traditional screenreader.
</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/emacspeak">
Emacspeak Home On Sourceforge
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<p><address><a href="mailto:raman@cs.cornell.edu">Email: T. V. Raman</a></address></p>
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