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<applications caption="Speech-enabled applications  on the Emacspeak audio desktop.">
  <preamble title="Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop"/>
  <introduction>
    <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  such as <em>ELPA</em> and <em>MELPA</em>.</p>
    
    <h2>Speech-Enabled Applications</h2>
  </introduction>
  <category name="documentation">
    <application name="info">
      Emacs' online hypertext documentation system.
      Emacspeak uses audio formatting to highlight menus and hyperlinks.
    </application>
    <application name="help">
      Speech-enabled online help across the audio
    desktop.</application>
    <application name="man">
      UNIX online manual browser with full aural highlighting and
    structured browsing.</application>
    <application name="woman">
      Support for <em>WoMan</em>, the UNIX Man page reader implemented
    as a native Emacs application.</application>
  </category>
  <category name="desktop">
    <application name="ido">
      Efficiently find buffers and files on the audio desktop
      --- the IDo way.
    </application>
    <application name="ibuffer">
      Tool for locating open buffers on the audio desktop.
    </application>
    <application name="iswitchb">
      Quickly switch to buffers on the audio desktop.
    </application>
    <application name="bs">
      Tool for locating open buffers on the audio desktop.
    </application>
    <application name="buff-menu">
    Browsing and selecting buffers on the audio desktop.</application>
    <application name="buff-sel">
      Interactive selection of buffers on the audio desktop.
    </application>
    <application name="yasg">
      Pattern-based selection of open buffers.
    </application>
    <application name="speedbar">
      Context-sensitive browsing tool.
      Provides seamless browsing of the entire file system or a
      single file with the same consistent interface.
    </application>
    <application name="elscreen">
      Speech-enables package ElScreen for managing Emacs window layouts.
    </application>
    <application name="sawfish">
      Speech-enables the Sawfish window-manager.
    </application>
    <application name="DBus">
    Support for DBus integration.</application>
  </category>
  <category name="finders">
    <application name="dired">
      Browse and operate on files and folders.
    </application>
    <application name="wdired">
      Edit filenames within dired as a means of moving and
      renaming files.
    </application>
    <application name="ffap">
      Find file or url at point.
    </application>
    <application name="locate">
      File browser interface for finding files.
    </application>
    <application name="find-dired">
      Seamless integration between the file browser and
      finder.
    </application>
    <application name="find-grep">
      Using grep with find. also, se igrep.
    </application>
    <application name="efs">
      Front-end to remote file access using an FTP
    back-end.</application>
    <application name="tramp">
    Front-end to remote file access using SSH backend.</application>
    <application name="finder">
      Package browser for locating  installed  applications.
    </application>
    <application name="rpm">
      Client for browsing installed RPM packages.
    </application>
    <application name="Find Wizard">
      Command  <code>emacspeak-wizards-generate-finder</code>
    provides an easy to use front-end to UNIX <code>find</code>.</application>

    <application name="apt-get">
    Emacs interface to Debian <code>apt-get</code></application>
    <application name="elpa">
    Support for the Emacs Lisp Package Archive.</application>
  </category>
  <category name="Web">
    <application name="eww">
      Built-in, Standards-compliant WWW browser with Aural CSS
    support.</application>
    <application name="w3">
      Standards-compliant WWW browser with Aural CSS
    support.</application>
    
    <application name="piglets">
      Integrates Emacspeak with Firefox, with Fire-Vox providing spoken
      output through the emacspeak TTS server.</application><application name="w3m">
      Light-weight WWW browser.
      Does not support table navigation, CSS or Aural CSS, but can be fast and light-weight.</application>
      
      <application name="mozrepl">
        Speech-enabled bridge between Emacs and the MozREPL extenxion for
      Firefox.</application>
      <application name="url-template">
        Emacspeak client  that provides programmable  URL templates.
        Pre-defined templates offer easy access to W3C mailing
        lists, CNN sites etc.
      </application>
      <application name="EmapSpeak">
        <a
            href="http://emacspeak.sf.net/releases/release-EmapSpeak.html">Audio-formatted
        access to Google Maps</a>
      </application>
      <application name="webspace">
        Emacspeak tool for displaying continuously updating
        headers, and browsing conveniently setup hypertext links to
      WebSpace content.</application>
      <application name="websearch">
        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>.
      </application>
      <application name="webspace">
        Emacspeak WebSpace --- provides interaction-free information access.
      </application>
      <application name="xslt">
        Ability to apply XSL transforms to Web content before it is
        displayed.
      </application>
      <application name="lynx">
        Single key interface for invoking lynx in an appropriately
        customized terminal buffer.
      </application>
      <application name="net-utils">
        Front-end to networking tools.
      </application>
      <application name="babel">
        Access Internet  translation services.
      </application>
      <application name="mozrepl">
        Connect to Firefox.
      </application>
      <application name="google">
        Support for Google search --- including the Google tool-belt for
      refining searches.</application>
  </category>
  <category name="Google Client">
    <application name="gblogger">
      Blogger dclient  using Atom Publishing Protocol.
    </application>
    <application name="greader">
      Google Reader client using ATOM and REST.
    </application>
    <application name="gcal">
    Google Calendar client using ATOM and GData.</application>
    
    <application name="gmaps">
      Google Maps (V2) API  client, that enables Maps exploration.
    </application>
    <application name="gphoto">
      Google Picasa (photo albums)  client using ATOM and GData.
    </application>
    <application name="gdocs">
      Enables publishing documents to Google Docs from within Emacs
    using org-mode for authoring content.</application>
    <application name="gweb">
      Provides a highly efficient suite of WebSearch utilities using
    Google's AJAX  Search API.</application>
    <application name="gfeeds">
    Provides efficient access to Blogs using Google's AJAX BlogSearch APIs.</application>
  </category>
  <category name="Messaging">
    <application name="vm">
      Mail reader featuring full mime support.
    </application>
    <application name="bbdb">
      Manages email addresses and other contact information by
      seamlessly integrating with messaging applications.
    </application>
    <application name="eudc">
      Universal Directory Client including LDAP support and
    seamless integration with messaging applications.</application>
    <application name="gnus">
      Usenet news and email client
      with support for exotic information backends such as
    Slashdot etc.</application>
    <application name="elfeed">
      Feed reader  for Emacs
      
    </application>
    <application name="newsticker">
      Speech-enabled NewsTicker, a native Emacs RSS reader.
    </application>
    <application name="amphetadesk">
      Emacs front-end to AmphetaDesk
    </application>
    <application name="rss">
      Speech-enabled RSS viewer for RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0
    </application>
    <application name="atom">
    Speech-enabled ATOM viewer.</application>
    <application name="message">
      Email composition   from
    within other applications.</application>
    <application name="supercite">
    Enables flexible citations when composing  email.</application>
    <application name="erc">
      Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client
      with  voice locking support and parallel chat
    sessions.</application>
    <application name="emacs-jabber">
      Speech-enables emacs-jabber, an  Emacs Jabber client available
    from Sourceforge.</application>
    <application name="gnuyahoo">
      GNUYahoo is a Yahoo messenger client.
    </application>
    <application name="mspools">
      Interface for working with multiple mail spools;
      allows easy browsing of automatically archived mail.
    </application>
    <application name="mh-e">
    Interface to the MH suite of email tools.</application>
    <application name="rmail">
    Email client.</application>
  </category>
  <category name="calendaring">
    <application name="calendar">
      Desktop calendar with an integrated appointment book.
    </application>
    <application name="diary">
      Speech-enabled diary via EDiary.
    </application>
    <application name="appointments">
      Speech-enabled appointments via the Emacs calendar.
    </application>
    <application name="todo">
      Speech-enabled ToDo Lists.
    </application>
  </category>
  <category name="shell">
    <application name="shell">
      Runs interactive command interpreters like BASH and TCSH.
    </application>
    <application name="ansi-colors">
      Applies Aural CSS ACSS properties to convert ansi color
      codes to appropriate voice changes to produce
      audio formatted output.
    </application>
    <application name="eterm">
      Speech-enabled  terminal client for running full-screen
      applications like VI, Lynx and PINE.
    </application>
    <application name="ssh">
    Front-end to SSH.</application>
    <application name="eshell">
      Command shell implemented in Emacs Lisp, making it
      independent of the underlying operating system.
    </application>
    <application name="comint">
      Support for running generic command interpreters.
    </application>
    <application name="xml-shell">
      Interactive shell for browsing XML structures via libxml and
      XMLLint.
    </application>
  </category>
  <category name="taskbar">
    <application name="proced">
      Proced is part of Emacs 23, and provides a front-end for monitoring and controlling  processes.
    </application>
    <application name="view-process">
      Front-end for monitoring and controlling  processes.
    </application>
    <application name="analog">
      Analog.el provides a log analyzer that can be customized to
      display system log files with a few convenient
    keystrokes.</application>
  </category>
  <category name="Multimedia">
    <application name="aumix">
      Emacspeak front-end for configuring  the
      auditory display.
    </application>
    <application name="cd-tool">
    Control CD player from anywhere on the audio desktop.</application>
    <application name="mpg123">
      Play mp3 files, with keyboard access to  all   functions.
    </application>
    <application name="alsaplayer">
    Play MP3 and OGG streams using ALSA.</application>
    <application name="zinf">
    Play media streams using zinf.</application>
    <application name="madplay">
    Play MP3 and OGG streams using Madplay.</application>
<application name="vlc">
      Play media streams. Includes
      presets  for single click access to
      favorite streams.
    </application>
    <application name="mplayer">
      Play Internet  Media  streams. Includes
      presets  for single click access to
      favorite streams.
    </application>
    <application name="sox">
      Audio workbench for the Emacspeak desktop.
    </application>
    <application name="tune-in">
      Search, Browse and play Internet radio stations
    </application>
    <application name="pianobar">
      Play Pandora radio using the Open Source <em>Pianobar</em>
      command-line client.
    </application>
    <application name="npr">
      API  client for listening to NPR programs.
    </application>
    <application name="librivox">
    API  client for listening to free Librivox audio books.</application>
    <application name="emms">
      Emacs equivalent  of XMMS --- a versatile multimedia tool.
      Provides a consistent user interface to a variety of media players.
    </application>
    <application name="midge">
    Compose and play MIDI files.</application>
  </category>
  <category name="Authoring">
    <application name="nxml">
      XML authoring environment by James Clark.
    Provides on the fly validation and voice locking.</application>
    <application name="xae">
      XML authoring environment based on PSGML and XSL.
    Enables structured document authoring and interactive preview.</application>
    <application name="psgml">
      Environment for authoring and maintaining XML and SGML
      documents.
      Provides structured authoring support including
    context-sensitive help  based on current DTD.</application>
    <application name="tdtd">Author and maintain XML and
    SGML DTD files.</application>
    <application name="xslt-process">
      Interactive environment for working with XSLT.
    </application>
    <application name="auctex">
      Authoring environment for TeX
      and LaTeX documents;
      template based authoring, voice locking support and structured browsing.
    </application>

<application name="rst">
      Authoring environment for RST documents.
      and LaTeX documents;
      template based authoring, voice locking support and structured browsing.
    </application>
    <application name="bibtex">
    Maintain BIBTeX bibliographies.</application>
    <application name="reftex">
      Browse cross-references in LaTeX
    documents.</application>
    <application name="texinfo">Authoring support for creating texinfo
    documentation.  Texinfo enables the production of both
    online hypertext and high-quality print documentation
    from a single source.</application>
    <application name="metapost">
      Speech-enabled metapost mode for creating drawings using the
      metapost language.
    </application>
    <application name="enriched">
      Rich-text authoring to provide a simple word
    processor.</application>
<application name="evil">
EVIL == Emacs VI Emulation Layer.
module emacspeak-evil speech-enables EVIL.</application>
    <application name="rdf-edit">
      Speech-enabled editing of RDF/DAML ontologies using DAMLITE.
    </application>

    <application name="muse">
      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.
  </application></category>
  <category name="Reading">
    <application name="ocr">
      Emacs front-end  to OCR engines.
      This module provides speech-enabled access to image
      aquisition and  document recognition tools
      available on the underlying platform.
    </application>
    <application name="emacspeak-daisy">
      Implements a digital talking book reader for DAISY3  talking
    books.</application>
    <application name="emacspeak-bookshare">
      Implements a client for Bookshare, including a light-weight
      Daisy reader.
    </application>    
    <application name="emacspeak-epub">
      Implements a simple EPub reader.
    </application>
    <application name="view">
      File browser for reading etexts.
    </application>
    <application name="bookmark">
      Create bookmarks that persist across Emacs sessions.
    </application>
    <application name="org">
      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.</application>
    <application name="markdown">
      Speech-enabled markdown mode. 
    </application>  
    
    
    <application name="remember">
      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.</application>
    <application name="outline">
      Context-sensitive outline support for browsing documents.
    </application>
    <application name="folding">
      Application for structuring and later obtaining
      structured views of files.
    </application>
    <application name="hide">
      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.
    </application>
    <application name="table-ui">
      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.
    </application>
    <application name="filtertext">
      Emacspeak client for progressively filtering text.
    </application>
    <application name="gridtext">
      Emacspeak client for overlaying grids on text.
      Useful in browsing log files and other text output that has
      columnar structure.
    </application>
  </category>
  <category name="Productivity">
    <application name="search-and-replace">
      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. </application>
    <application name="browse-kill-ring">
      Speech-enabled browsable kill ring.
      Allows easy browsing of Emacs' builtin clipboard facility.
    </application>
    <application name="calculator">
    Simple but powerful desktop calculator.</application>
    <application name="ess">
      Emacs interface to statistics packages like
    <code>R</code></application>
    <application name="dismal">
      Spread-sheet application with support for customizing
    spoken feedback on a per-sheet basis.</application>
    <application name="calc">
      Calculator  with  financial and
    scientific functions.</application>
    <application name="gnuplot">
      Front-end to Gnuplot  for plotting graphs; integrates with
      the symbolic calculator.
    </application>
    <application name="eperiodic">
    Periodic table of elements.</application>
    <application name="custom">
      Intuitive interface to customize Emacs' extensive set of
      customization options.
    </application>
    <application name="dictation">
      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.
    </application>
    <application name="dictionary">
      Access dictionary servers.
    </application>
<application name="vdiff">
Package VDiff implements visual diff --- and is speech-enabled by
module emacspeak-vdiff.</application>
    <application name="ediff">
      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.</application>
    <application name="forms">
      Forms-based interface for manipulating structured data.
      Useful for system administration tasks  such as managing
      password databases and browsing log files.
    </application>
    <application name="hyperbole">
      Information management system.
    </application>
    <application name="imenu">
      Generates context-sensitive table of contents.
    </application>
    <application name="ispell">
      Front-end to interactive spell checker.
      Errors are aurally highlighted and available corrections
    automatically spoken.</application>
    <application name="flyspell">
      Interactive spell checker that aurally and visually
      highlights misspelled  words as they are typed.
    </application>
    <application name="find-things-fast">
    Finds files within a project using cached list of files.</application>
    <application name="magit">
    Emacs front-end to GIT</application>
    <application name="vc">
    Front-end to version control systems like SVN, GIT, HG, CVS and RCS.</application>
    <application name="pcl-cvs">
      Front-end for working with CVS repositories.
    </application>
    <application name="pronounce">
      Emacspeak client for defining custom pronunciations.
      Pronunciations can be defined on a per-file, per-directory,
      or per-mode basis and persisted across sessions.
    </application>
    <application name="remote">
      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.
    </application>
    <application name="tar">
      Front-end for browsing  tar,
      jar and zip archives.
    </application>
    <application name="arc">
      Browse various compressed archives.
    </application>
    <application name="Muggles">
      Emacspeak Muggles exposes smart keybindings for   performing common tasks.
    </application>
    <application name="wizards">
      Emacspeak wizards for performing common tasks.
    </application>
    <application name="clipboard">
      Emacspeak clipboard for cut and paste among different
      emacspeak sessions, possibly running on different
    hosts.</application>
    <application name="units">
      Simple wizard for accessing Units tool
      --- a powerful units convertor.
    </application>
  </category>
  <category name=" programming">
    <application name="xref">
      Support for cross-references via package XRef in Emacs-25.
    </application>
    <application name="company">
      Complete anything support.
      Supports all features of package Company via a custom speech-enabled front-end.
    </application>
    <application name="flycheck">
    On-the-fly syntax checking.</application>
<application name="indium">
      Javascript  Development Environment with interactive debugging
      using Chrome Debugger API or NodeJS
    </application>
<application name="tide">
      Typescript  Development Environment.
    </application>
    <application name="clojure-mode">
      Support for editing Clojure source.
    </application>
    <application name="cider">
      A powerful IDE for Clojure development.
    </application>
<application name="slime">
      Superior Lisp Interaction mode for Emacs --- a powerful IDE for
      Common Lisp development.
    </application>
    <application name="jdee">
      Java Development Environment with interactive debugging
      support using the Java Platform Debug Architecture
      (JPDA). Provides a speech-enabled inspector and wizards.
    </application>
    <application name="cedet">
      Integrated Emacs Development Environment
    </application>
    <application name="ecb">
      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.
    </application>
    <application name="gud">
      Unified debugger front-end.
      Allows interactive debugging with fluent spoken feedback.
    </application>
    <application name="c">
      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.
    </application>
    <application name="compile">
      Front-end to running batch compiles.
      Provides easy navigation through the lines containing errors.
    </application>
    <application name="perl">
      Editting support for Perl.
      Features  aural highlighting and easy access to
      online help.
    </application>
    <application name="ruby">
      Speech-enables editting support for Ruby.
      Features  aural highlighting and easy access to
      online help.
    </application>
    <application name="lua">
      Editting support for interactive LUA  development.
      Features aural highlighting, structured browsing and debugging.
    </application>
    <application name="Go">
      Editting support for interactive Go  development.
      Features aural highlighting, structured browsing and debugging.
    </application>
    <application name="geiser">
      Support for interactive Scheme development including aural
      highlighting,
      an interactive REPL,
      structured browsing and interactive  help.
    </application>
    <application name="racket-mode">
      Support for interactive Racket development including aural
      highlighting,
      an interactive REPL,
      structured browsing and interactive  help.
    </application>

    <application name="tcl">
      Support for interactive TCL development including aural highlighting,
      structured browsing and interactive  help.
    </application>
    <application name="python">
      Editting support for interactive Python development.
      Features aural highlighting, structured browsing and debugging.
    </application>
<application name="elpy">
      IDE for interactive Python development.
    </application>
    <application name="tcl">
      Support for interactive TCL development including aural highlighting,
      structured browsing and interactive  help.
    </application>
    <application name="sql">
      support for SQL including aural highlighting and interactive
      SQL development.
    </application>
    <application name="generic">
      Editting support for JavaScript and  Apache configuration files
      with voice locking and structured navigation.
    </application>
    <application name="hideshow">
      Hiding and showing blocks of C code.
    </application>
    <application name="make-mode">
      Editting support for creating and maintaining Makefiles.
    </application>
    <application name="sh-script">
      Editting support for shell scripts.
    </application>
    <application name="rpm-spec">
      Editting support for RPM spec files.
    </application>
    <application name="yasnippet">
      Support for creating and filling-in templates using package YaSnippets.
      Used to implement wizards in JDE, HTML helper mode and friends.
    </application>
    <application name="dmacro">
      Dynamic macro package for template-based editting.
    </application>
    <application name="oo-browser">
      Tool for browsing  object oriented software codebases
      --- this is largely obsoleted by ECB..
    </application>
    <applicaiton name="jss">
      Interactive debugging of Web applications (Chrome, Firefox) via
    the browser debugging API.</applicaiton>
    <application name="kite">
      Interact with Chrome via the remote debugging API.
    </application>
    <application name="ein">
    IPython Notebook interaction from Emacs.</application>
<application name="smartparens">
Speech-enable package smartparens for intelligently managing matching
delimiters.
</application>
  </category>
  <category name="Distractions">
    <application name="entertain">
      Speech-enabled access to numerous games including
      adventure, a multiplication puzzle and
      Hangman.
    </application>
<application name="2048">
      Speech-enabled access to the 2048 game.
      </application>
<application name="threes">
      Speech-enabled access to  the Threes puzzle.
      </application>
    <application name="sudoku">
      Speech-enabled access to SuDoku --- the number placement game.
      </application><application name="gomoku">
      Speech-enabled version of the traditional board game.
    </application>
    <application name="solitaire">
      Speech-enabled version of the traditional board game.
    </application>
    <application name="tetris">
      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>.
    </application>
    <application name="sudoku">
      Speech-enabled version of the popular number placement
      game, <em>SuDoKu</em>
    </application>
    <application name="jawbreaker">
      Provides a fluent auditory user interface to the JawBreaker game
      implemented in JavaScript on the Web. This uses the Piglets
      framework for Emacs integration, and uses the AxsJAX-enabled version
    of the JawBreaker game.</application>
  </category>
  <postamble>
    <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
        </a>
      </strong>
    </p>
    <p>
      <address>
        <a href="mailto:raman@cs.cornell.edu">Email: T. V. Raman</a>
      </address>
    </p>
  </postamble>
</applications>