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<title>Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Speech-enabled Applications On The Emacspeak Desktop </h1>
<p>
This document catalogs 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>.
This is also available through the
<a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WikifiedEmacsLispList">Emacs Wiki</a></p>
<h2>Speech-Enabled Applications</h2>
<h2>Application Categories</h2>
<p>
As of the last update, there are a total of
<em>150</em>
speech-enabled applications
in <em>14</em> categories
on the Emacspeak audio desktop.
</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="#documentation">DOCUMENTATION
(4)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#desktop">DESKTOP
(9)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#finders">FINDERS
(11)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#web">WEB
(9)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#Messaging">MESSAGING
(19)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#calendaring">CALENDARING
(4)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#shell">SHELL
(7)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#taskbar">TASKBAR
(2)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#Multimedia">MULTIMEDIA
(10)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#Authoring">AUTHORING
(13)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#Reading">READING
(12)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#Productivity">PRODUCTIVITY
(25)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#%20programming"> PROGRAMMING
(19)
</a></li>
<li><a href="#Distractions">DISTRACTIONS
(6)
</a></li>
</ol>
<table>
<caption>Speech-enabled applications on the Emacspeak audio desktop.</caption>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="documentation" id="documentation">DOCUMENTATION
(4)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="info">info</a></td>
<td>
Emacs' online hypertext documentation system.
Emacspeak uses audio formatting to highlight menus and hyperlinks.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="help">help</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled online help across the audio
desktop.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="man">man</a></td>
<td>
UNIX online manual browser with full aural highlighting and
structured browsing.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="howto">howto</a></td>
<td>
Emacspeak wizard for browsing Linux HOWTO documents.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="desktop" id="desktop">DESKTOP
(9)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="ido">ido</a></td>
<td>
Efficiently find buffers and files on the audio desktop
--- the IDo way.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="ibuffer">ibuffer</a></td>
<td>
Tool for locating open buffers on the audio desktop.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="iswitchb">iswitchb</a></td>
<td>
Quickly switch to buffers on the audio desktop.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="bs">bs</a></td>
<td>
Tool for locating open buffers on the audio desktop.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="buff-menu">buff-menu</a></td>
<td>
Browsing and selecting buffers on the audio desktop.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="buff-sel">buff-sel</a></td>
<td>
Interactive selection of buffers on the audio desktop.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="yasg">yasg</a></td>
<td>
Pattern-based selection of open buffers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="speedbar">speedbar</a></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>9</td>
<td><a id="sawfish">sawfish</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enables the Sawfish window-manager.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="finders" id="finders">FINDERS
(11)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="dired">dired</a></td>
<td>
Browse and operate on files and folders.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="wdired">wdired</a></td>
<td>
Edit filenames within dired as a means of moving and
renaming files.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="ffap">ffap</a></td>
<td>
Find file or url at point.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="locate">locate</a></td>
<td>
File browser interface for finding files.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="find-dired">find-dired</a></td>
<td>
Seamless integration between the file browser and
finder.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="find-grep">find-grep</a></td>
<td>
Using grep with find. also, se igrep.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="efs">efs</a></td>
<td>
Front-end to remote file access using an FTP
back-end.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="tramp">tramp</a></td>
<td>
Front-end to remote file access using SSH backend.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a id="finder">finder</a></td>
<td>
Package browser for locating installed applications.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td><a id="rpm">rpm</a></td>
<td>
Client for browsing installed RPM packages.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td><a id="Find Wizard">Find Wizard</a></td>
<td>
Command <code>emacspeak-wizards-generate-finder</code>
provides an easy to use front-end to UNIX <code>find</code>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="web" id="web">WEB
(9)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="w3">w3</a></td>
<td>
Standards-compliant WWW browser with Aural CSS
support.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="w3m">w3m</a></td>
<td>
Light-weight WWW browser.
Does not support table navigation, CSS or Aural CSS, but can be fast and light-weight.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="url-template">url-template</a></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>4</td>
<td><a id="EmapSpeak">EmapSpeak</a></td>
<td><a href="http://emacspeak.sf.net/releases/release-EmapSpeak.html">Audio-formatted
access to Google Maps</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="websearch">websearch</a></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.
In addition, see the Web wizards in <a href="#wizards">Emacspeak Wizards</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="xslt">xslt</a></td>
<td>
Ability to apply XSL transforms to Web content before it is
displayed.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="lynx">lynx</a></td>
<td>
Single key interface for invoking lynx in an appropriately
customized terminal buffer.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="net-utils">net-utils</a></td>
<td>
Front-end to networking tools.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a id="babel">babel</a></td>
<td>
Access Internet translation services.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="Messaging" id="Messaging">MESSAGING
(19)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="atom-blogger">atom-blogger</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enables <code>atom-blogger</code>, a light-weight
blogging tool that I use to publish/edit
<code>blogger.com</code> blogs.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="vm">vm</a></td>
<td>
Mail reader featuring full mime support.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="bbdb">bbdb</a></td>
<td>
Manages email addresses and other contact information by
seamlessly integrating with messaging applications.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="eudc">eudc</a></td>
<td>
Universal Directory Client including LDAP support and
seamless integration with messaging applications.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="gnus">gnus</a></td>
<td>
Usenet news and email client
with support for exotic information backends such as
Slashdot etc.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="newsticker">newsticker</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled NewsTicker, a native Emacs RSS reader.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="amphetadesk">amphetadesk</a></td>
<td>
Emacs front-end to AmphetaDesk
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="rss">rss</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled RSS viewer for RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a id="atom">atom</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled ATOM viewer.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td><a id="message">message</a></td>
<td>
Email composition from
within other applications.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td><a id="supercite">supercite</a></td>
<td>
Enables flexible citations when composing email.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td><a id="tnt">tnt</a></td>
<td>
Instant Messenger (AIM) client,
with support for multiple parallel chat
sessions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td><a id="erc">erc</a></td>
<td>
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client
with voice locking support and parallel chat
sessions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td><a id="emacs-jabber">emacs-jabber</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enables emacs-jabber, an Emacs Jabber client available
from Sourceforge.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15</td>
<td><a id="imcom">imcom</a></td>
<td>
IMCom is a Python-based jabber client.
Module emacspeak-imcom speech-enables IMCom with full audio
formatting support.
Chat sessions can be viewed within W3 with full ACSS support.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16</td>
<td><a id="gnuyahoo">gnuyahoo</a></td>
<td>
GNUYahoo is a Yahoo messenger client.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17</td>
<td><a id="mspools">mspools</a></td>
<td>
Interface for working with multiple mail spools;
allows easy browsing of automatically archived mail.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18</td>
<td><a id="mh-e">mh-e</a></td>
<td>
Interface to the MH suite of email tools.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19</td>
<td><a id="rmail">rmail</a></td>
<td>
Email client.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="calendaring" id="calendaring">CALENDARING
(4)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="calendar">calendar</a></td>
<td>
Desktop calendar with an integrated appointment book.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="diary">diary</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled diary via EDiary.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="appointments">appointments</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled appointments via the Emacs calendar.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="todo">todo</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled ToDo Lists.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="shell" id="shell">SHELL
(7)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="shell">shell</a></td>
<td>
Runs interactive command interpreters like BASH and TCSH.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="ansi-colors">ansi-colors</a></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>3</td>
<td><a id="eterm">eterm</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled terminal client for running full-screen
applications like VI, Lynx and PINE.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="ssh">ssh</a></td>
<td>
Front-end to SSH.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="eshell">eshell</a></td>
<td>
Command shell implemented in Emacs Lisp, making it
independent of the underlying operating system.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="comint">comint</a></td>
<td>
Support for running generic command interpreters.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="xml-shell">xml-shell</a></td>
<td>
Interactive shell for browsing XML structures via libxml and
XMLLint.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="taskbar" id="taskbar">TASKBAR
(2)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="view-process">view-process</a></td>
<td>
Front-end for monitoring and controlling processes.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="analog">analog</a></td>
<td>
Analog.el provides a log analyzer that can be customized to
display system log files with a few convenient
keystrokes.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="Multimedia" id="Multimedia">MULTIMEDIA
(10)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="aumix">aumix</a></td>
<td>
Emacspeak front-end for configuring the
auditory display.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="cd-tool">cd-tool</a></td>
<td>
Control CD player from anywhere on the audio desktop.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="freeamp">freeamp</a></td>
<td>
Ubiquitous access to Freeamp mp3 with a single
keystroke.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="mpg123">mpg123</a></td>
<td>
Play mp3 files, with keyboard access to all functions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="realaudio">realaudio</a></td>
<td>
Play RealAudio, RealMedia and mp3 streams. Includes
presets for single click access to
favorite streams.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="alsaplayer">alsaplayer</a></td>
<td>
Play MP3 and OGG streams using ALSA.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="madplay">madplay</a></td>
<td>
Play MP3 and OGG streams using Madplay.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="mplayer">mplayer</a></td>
<td>
Play Windows media and mp3 streams. Includes
presets for single click access to
favorite streams.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a id="midge">midge</a></td>
<td>
Compose and play MIDI files.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td><a id="emms">emms</a></td>
<td>
Emacs Multimedia Front-End
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="Authoring" id="Authoring">AUTHORING
(13)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="nxml">nxml</a></td>
<td>
XML authoring environment by James Clark.
Provides on the fly validation and voice locking.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="xae">xae</a></td>
<td>
XML authoring environment based on PSGML and XSL.
Enables structured document authoring and interactive preview.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="psgml">psgml</a></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>4</td>
<td><a id="tdtd">tdtd</a></td>
<td>Author and maintain XML and
SGML DTD files.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="xslt-process">xslt-process</a></td>
<td>
Interactive environment for working with XSLT.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="auctex">auctex</a></td>
<td>
Authoring environment for TeX
and LaTeX documents;
template based authoring, voice locking support and structured browsing.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="bibtex">bibtex</a></td>
<td>
Maintain BIBTeX bibliographies.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="reftex">reftex</a></td>
<td>
Browse cross-references in LaTeX
documents.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a id="texinfo">texinfo</a></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>10</td>
<td><a id="metapost">metapost</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled metapost mode for creating drawings using the
metapost language.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td><a id="enriched">enriched</a></td>
<td>
Rich-text authoring to provide a simple word
processor.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td><a id="rdf-edit">rdf-edit</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled editing of RDF/DAML ontologies using DAMLITE.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td><a id="muse">muse</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enables <code>muse-mode</code> an Emacs publishing
package that enables Wiki-like authoring
with the ability to publish the results to multiple formats.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="Reading" id="Reading">READING
(12)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="ocr">ocr</a></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>2</td>
<td><a id="emacspeak-daisy">emacspeak-daisy</a></td>
<td>
Implements a digital talking book reader for DAISY3 talking
books.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="view">view</a></td>
<td>
File browser for reading etexts.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="bookmark">bookmark</a></td>
<td>
Create bookmarks that persist across Emacs sessions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="org">org</a></td>
<td>
The <code>org.el</code> package is available in new versions of
Emacs as <code>text/org.el</code>.
It is built on top of <code>outline mode</code> and is a useful
way to keep organized notes.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="remember">remember</a></td>
<td>
Package <code>remember.el</code>
in conjunction with <code>org mode</code> for keeping notes is a
powerful way to remember related items of information. As an
example, I now use the functionality provided by package
<code>remember</code> in conjunction with <code>org mode</code>
instead of maintaining a <em>Web HotList</em>; the
<code>org+remember</code> solution captures a lot more context
and keeps things far better organized.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="outline">outline</a></td>
<td>
Context-sensitive outline support for browsing documents.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="folding">folding</a></td>
<td>
Application for structuring and later obtaining
structured views of files.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a id="hide">hide</a></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>10</td>
<td><a id="table-ui">table-ui</a></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>11</td>
<td><a id="filtertext">filtertext</a></td>
<td>
Emacspeak client for progressively filtering text.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td><a id="gridtext">gridtext</a></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 colspan="3"><h2><a name="Productivity" id="Productivity">PRODUCTIVITY
(25)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="search-and-replace">search-and-replace</a></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>2</td>
<td><a id="browse-kill-ring">browse-kill-ring</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled browsable kill ring.
Allows easy browsing of Emacs' builtin clipboard facility.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="calculator">calculator</a></td>
<td>
Simple but powerful desktop calculator.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="dismal">dismal</a></td>
<td>
Spread-sheet application with suport for customizing
spoken feedback on a per-sheet basis.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="calc">calc</a></td>
<td>
Calculator with financial and
scientific functions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="gnuplot">gnuplot</a></td>
<td>
Front-end to Gnuplot for plotting graphs; integrates with
the symbolic calculator.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="eperiodic">eperiodic</a></td>
<td>
Periodic table of elements.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="custom">custom</a></td>
<td>
Intuitive interface to customize Emacs' extensive set of
customization options.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a id="dictation">dictation</a></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>10</td>
<td><a id="dictionary">dictionary</a></td>
<td>
Access dictionary servers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td><a id="ediff">ediff</a></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>12</td>
<td><a id="forms">forms</a></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>13</td>
<td><a id="hyperbole">hyperbole</a></td>
<td>
Information management system.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td><a id="imenu">imenu</a></td>
<td>
Generates context-sensitive table of contents.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15</td>
<td><a id="ispell">ispell</a></td>
<td>
Front-end to interactive spell checker.
Errors are aurally highlighted and available corrections
automatically spoken.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16</td>
<td><a id="flyspell">flyspell</a></td>
<td>
Interactive spell checker that aurally and visually
highlights misspelled words as they are typed.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17</td>
<td><a id="vc">vc</a></td>
<td>
Front-end to version control systems like CVS and RCS.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18</td>
<td><a id="pcl-cvs">pcl-cvs</a></td>
<td>
Front-end for working with CVS repositories.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19</td>
<td><a id="pronounce">pronounce</a></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>20</td>
<td><a id="remote">remote</a></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>21</td>
<td><a id="tar">tar</a></td>
<td>
Front-end for browsing tar,
jar and zip archives.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22</td>
<td><a id="arc">arc</a></td>
<td>
Browse various compressed archives.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23</td>
<td><a id="wizards">wizards</a></td>
<td>
Emacspeak wizards for performing common tasks.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24</td>
<td><a id="clipboard">clipboard</a></td>
<td>
Emacspeak clipboard for cut and paste among different
emacspeak sessions, possibly running on different
hosts.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25</td>
<td><a id="units">units</a></td>
<td>
Simple wizard for accessing Units tool
--- a powerful units convertor.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name=" programming" id=" programming"> PROGRAMMING
(19)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="jde">jde</a></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>2</td>
<td><a id="cedet">cedet</a></td>
<td>
Integrated Emacs Development Environment
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="ecb">ecb</a></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>4</td>
<td><a id="gud">gud</a></td>
<td>
Unified debugger front-end.
Allows interactive debugging with fluent spoken feedback.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="c">c</a></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>6</td>
<td><a id="compile">compile</a></td>
<td>
Front-end to running batch compiles.
Provides easy navigation through the lines containing errors.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a id="perl">perl</a></td>
<td>
Editting support for Perl.
Features aural highlighting and easy access to
online help.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a id="ruby">ruby</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enables editting support for Ruby.
Features aural highlighting and easy access to
online help.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a id="python">python</a></td>
<td>
Editting support for interactive Python development.
Features aural highlighting, structured browsing and debugging.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td><a id="tcl">tcl</a></td>
<td>
Support for interactive TCL development including aural highlighting,
structured browsing and interactive help.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td><a id="sql">sql</a></td>
<td>
support for SQL including aural highlighting and interactive
SQL development.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td><a id="generic">generic</a></td>
<td>
Editting support for JavaScript and Apache configuration files
with voice locking and structured navigation.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td><a id="hideshow">hideshow</a></td>
<td>
Hiding and showing blocks of C code.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td><a id="make-mode">make-mode</a></td>
<td>
Editting support for creating and maintaining Makefiles.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15</td>
<td><a id="sh-script">sh-script</a></td>
<td>
Editting support for shell scripts.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16</td>
<td><a id="rpm-spec">rpm-spec</a></td>
<td>
Editting support for RPM spec files.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17</td>
<td><a id="tempo">tempo</a></td>
<td>
Support for creating and filling-in templates.
Used to implement wizards in JDE, HTML helper mode and friends.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18</td>
<td><a id="dmacro">dmacro</a></td>
<td>
Dynamic macro package for template-based editting.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19</td>
<td><a id="oo-browser">oo-browser</a></td>
<td>
Tool for browsing object oriented software codebases
--- this is largely obsoleted by ECB..
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a name="Distractions" id="Distractions">DISTRACTIONS
(6)
</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a id="entertain">entertain</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled access to numerous games including
adventure, a multiplication puzzle and
Hangman.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a id="sudoku">sudoku</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled access to SuDoku --- the number placement game.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a id="gomoku">gomoku</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled version of the traditional board game.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a id="solitaire">solitaire</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled version of the traditional board game.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a id="tetris">tetris</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled version of Tetris with auditory icons and the
needed UI enhancements to play eyes-free Tetris.
See the paper entitled
<em></em> Conversational Gestures On The Audio Desktop (Assets 98)
for the underpinnings of this enhanced UI
--- <a href="http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/publications/assets-98/">online
paper</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a id="sudoku">sudoku</a></td>
<td>
Speech-enabled version of the popular number placement
game, <em>SuDoKu</em>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>Additional Notes</h2>
<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">
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