Announcing Emacspeak-98 ----------------------- For Immediate Release: San Jose, Calif., (November 13, 1997) Emacspeak-98 is now available. Interactive Accessibility Provides Speech-Enabled WebTop About Emacspeak: --------------- Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that provides complete eyes-free access to all major open 32 and 64 bit operating systems. 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. Major Enhancements: ------------------- 1) Usability enhancements including: a) Smart prefix recognition b) Flexible customization of dictionaries c) Pause and resume d) Lazy voice-lock for faster audio formatting e) Enhanced outline support 2) Support for games including gomoku and tetris. 3) Better support for running remote sessions. 4) Supports many additional major modes. + Preliminary support for the recently released Emacs 20. History: -------- Emacspeak-98 (Labrador) is a major upgrade to the speech output extension to Emacs. Emacspeak-95 (code named Illinois) was released on the Internet in May 1995 as the first complete speech interface to UNIX workstations. The subsequent release, Emacspeak-96 (code named Egypt) made available in May 1996 provided significant enhancements to the interface. Emacspeak-97 (Tennessee) went further in providing a true audio desktop. Emacspeak-98 goes further by integratingInternetWorking into all aspects of the audio desktop to provide the first fully interactive speech-enabled WebTop. Obtaining Emacspeak: -------------------- Visit Emacspeak at http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman --You can also pick up emacspeak via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/raman/emacspeak/. You can subscribe to the emacspeak mailing list by sending mail to the list owner greg e. priest-dorman . Based at Cornell (NY) --home to some of the most innovative auditory interfaces on the WWW-- Emacspeak is mirrored world-wide by an international netwrok of software archives. The Emacspeak mailing list is archived at --thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman. Press/Analyst Contact: Aster Labrador CopyWrite )C( Aster Labrador. All Writes Reserved. Labrador (DM) Is A Registered Dogmark of Aster Labrador.