Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Another forward from comp.os.linux.announce
From: D. Stimits (stimits_AT_idcomm.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 22:43:38 EET
This one is also interesting, but it was a bit long, so I'm only giving
an excerpt. Note that it is on sourceforge, and that the resemblance to
a stock announcement is only humor.
Subject:
Emacspeak-15.0 (SmartDog) Unleashed!
Date:
Fri, 23 Nov 2001 00:08:51 CST
From:
Hans Zoebelein <hzo_AT_gmx.de>
Organization:
Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - http://www.altopia.com
Newsgroups:
comp.os.linux.announce
Emacspeak-15.0 (SmartDog) Unleashed!
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For Immediate Release:
San Jose, Calif., (November 21, 2001)
Emacspeak-2002: Empowering Experienced 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
15.0 --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's
evolving semantic WWW.
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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-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 semantic WWW. With support
for the freely downloadable IBM ViaVoice TTS (Outloud) speech
synthesis engine, Emacspeak now turns Linux into the first
zero-cost Internet access solution for blind and visually
impaired users.
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Obtaining Emacspeak:
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Emacspeak can be downloaded from sourceforge --see
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/emacspeak/ You can visit
Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net or
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak.
You can subscribe to the emacspeak mailing list
emacspeak_AT_cs.vassar.edu by sending mail to the list request
address emacspeak-request_AT_cs.vassar.edu. The latest
development snapshot of Emacspeak is available via anonymous
CVS from sourceforge.
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About Emacspeak:
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Based at Cornell (NY) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman
--home to Auditory User Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW-- and
SourceForge --http://emacspeak.sf.net-- Emacspeak is mirrored
world-wide by an international network of software archives
and bundled voluntarily with all major Linux distributions. On
Monday, April 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the
Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information
Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American
History.
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