[gui-talk] Fwd: Emacspeak-28.0 (PuppyDog) Unleashed!
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Fri May 16 14:00:39 CDT 2008
>
> >>> "T. V. Raman" <raman at users.sourceforge.net> 5/15/2008 8:55 PM >>>
> Emacspeak-28.0 (PuppyDog) Unleashed!
> ----------------------------------
>
>For Immediate Release:
>
>San Jose, Calif., (May 16, 2007)
> Emacspeak: Bringing Cutting-Edge Access For Keen Users
> --Zero cost of upgrades/downgrades makes priceless software affordable!
>
>Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK)
>--<http://emacspeak.sf.net-->http://emacspeak.sf.net--
>announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 28.0
>--a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving data,
>social and service-oriented semantic Web.
>
>Investors Note:
>---------------
>
>With several prominent analysts expanding coverage, NASDOG: ESPK
>has now been consistently trading over the net at levels close
>to that once attained by DogCom high-fliers.
>
>What Is It?
>-----------
>
>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 live access to all aspects
>of the Internet such as Web-surfing, blogging 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
>service-oriented semantic Web.
>
>Major Enhancements:
>-------------------
>
>
> 1. WebSpace: Automatically retrieve and speak useful information.
> 2. Emacs binding to AMixer.
> 3. Updated URL templates.
> 4. Updated Web utilities.
> 5. Updated productivity wizards.
> 6. Improved support for multibyte charsets.
> 7. GMail search wizards.
> 8. G-Client updates.
>
>Plus many more changes too numerous to fit in this margin ...
>
>See the NEWS file for additional details.
>
>Establishing Liberty, Equality And Freedom:
>---------------------
>
> Never a toy system, Emacspeak is now voluntarily bundled with
>all major Linux distributions. Though designed to be modular,
>distributors have freely chosen to bundle the fully integrated
>system without any undue pressure --- a documented success for
>the integrated innovation embodied by the system. As the system
>evolves, both upgrades and downgrades continue to be available at
>the same zero-cost to all users. The integrity of the Emacspeak
>codebase is ensured by the reliable and secure Linux platform
>used to develop and distribute the software.
>
>Extensive studies have shown that thanks to these features, users
>consider Emacspeak to be absolutely priceless. Thanks to this
>wide-spread user demand, the present version is being made available
>at the same zero-cost as earlier releases.
>
>At the same time, Emacspeak continues to innovate in the
>area of speech and multimodal interaction and carries forward the
>well-established Open Source tradition of introducing user
>interface features that eventually show up in luser environments.
>
>On this theme, when once challenged by a proponent of a
>crash-prone but well-marketed mousetrap with the assertion
>"Emacs is a system from the 70's", the creator of Emacspeak
>evinced surprise at the unusual candor manifest in the assertion
>that it would take popular idiot-proven interfaces until the year
>2070 to catch up to where the Emacspeak audio desktop is
>today. Industry experts welcomed this refreshing breath of
>Courage Certainty and Clarity (CCC) at a time when users are
>reeling from the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) unleashed by
>complex software systems backed by even more convoluted press
>releases.
>
>Independent Test Results:
>-------------------------
>
>Independent test results have proven that unlike some modern (and
>not so modern) software, Emacspeak can be safely uninstalled without
>adversely affecting the continued performance of the computer. These
>same tests also revealed that once uninstalled, the user stopped
>functioning altogether. Speaking with Aster Labrador, the creator of
>Emacspeak once pointed out that these results re-emphasize the
>user-centric design of Emacspeak; "It is the user --and not the
>computer-- that stops functioning when Emacspeak is uninstalled!".
>
>Note from Aster and Bubbles:
>----------------------------
>
>UnDoctored Videos Inc. is still looking for volunteers to
>star in a video demonstrating such complete user failure.
>
>Obtaining Emacspeak:
>--------------------
>
>Emacspeak can be downloaded from Google Code Hosting --see
><http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak/>http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak/
>You can visit
>Emacspeak on the WWW at
><http://emacspeak.sf.net.>http://emacspeak.sf.net. 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 PuppyDog release is at
><http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/files/emacspeak-28.0.tar.bz2.>http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/files/emacspeak-28.0.tar.bz2.
>The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is available via
>Subversion from Google Code Hosting at
><http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/>http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
>
>History: -------- Emacspeak 28.0 --- AKA PuppyDog --- exemplifies
>the rapid pace of development evinced by Open Source software.
>Emacspeak 27.0 --- AKA FastDog --- is the latest in a sequence of
>upgrades that make previous releases obsolete and downgrades
>unnecessary. Emacspeak 26 --- AKA LeadDog --- continues the
>tradition of introducing innovative access solutions that are
>unfettered by the constraints inherent in traditional adaptive
>technologies. Emacspeak 25 -- AKA ActiveDog -- re-activates
>open, unfettered access to online information. Emacspeak-Alive
>-- AKA LiveDog -- enlivens open, unfettered information access
>with a series of live updates that once again demonstrate the
>power and agility of open source software development. Emacspeak
>23.0 -- AKA Retriever --- went the extra mile in fetching full
>access. Emacspeak 22.0 -- AKA GuideDog -- helps users navigate
>the Web more effectively than ever before. Emacspeak 21.0 -- AKA
>PlayDog -- continued the Emacspeak tradition of relying on
>enhanced productivity to liberate users. Emacspeak-20.0 -- AKA
>LeapDog -- continues the long established GNU/Emacs tradition of
>integrated innovation to create a pleasurable computing
>environment for eyes-free interaction. emacspeak-19.0 --AKA
>WorkDog-- is designed to enhance user productivity at work and
>leisure. Emacspeak-18.0 --code named GoodDog-- continued the
>Emacspeak tradition of enhancing user productivity and thereby
>reducing total cost of ownership. Emacspeak-17.0 --code named
>HappyDog-- enhances user productivity by exploiting today's
>evolving WWW standards. Emacspeak-16.0 --code named CleverDog--
>the follow-up to SmartDog-- continued the tradition of working
>better, faster, smarter. Emacspeak-15.0 --code named
>SmartDog--followed up on TopDog as the next in a continuing a
>series of award-winning audio desktop releases from Emacspeak
>Inc. Emacspeak-14.0 --code named TopDog--was the first release
>of this millennium. Emacspeak-13.0 --codenamed YellowLab-- was
>the closing release of the 20th. century. Emacspeak-12.0 --code
>named GoldenDog-- began leveraging the evolving semantic WWW to
>provide task-oriented speech access to
>Webformation. Emacspeak-11.0 --code named Aster-- went the final
>step in making Linux a zero-cost Internet access solution for
>blind and visually impaired users. Emacspeak-10.0 --(AKA
>Emacspeak-2000) code named WonderDog-- continued the tradition of
>award-winning software releases designed to make eyes-free
>computing a productive and pleasurable experience. Emacspeak-9.0
>--(AKA Emacspeak 99) code named BlackLab-- continued to innovate
>in the areas of speech interaction and interactive
>accessibility. Emacspeak-8.0 --(AKA Emacspeak-98++) code named
>BlackDog-- was a major upgrade to the speech output extension to
>Emacs.
>
>Emacspeak-95 (code named Illinois) was released as OpenSource 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
>integrated Internetworking into all aspects of the audio desktop
>to provide the first fully interactive speech-enabled WebTop.
>
>About Emacspeak:
>----------------
>
>Originally based at Cornell (NY)
><http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman>http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman
>--home to Auditory User
>Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW-- Emacspeak is now maintained on
>GoogleCode
>--<http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak>http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak -- and
>Sourceforge --
><http://emacspeak.sf.net.>http://emacspeak.sf.net. The system 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.
>
>The Emacspeak mailing list is archived at Vassar --the home of the
>Emacspeak mailing list-- thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman, and provides a
>valuable knowledge base for new users.
>
>Press/Analyst Contact: Hubbell Labrador
>
>Going forward, BubbleDog acknowledges her exclusive monopoly on
>setting the direction of the Emacspeak Audio Desktop, and
>promises to exercise this freedom to innovate and her resulting
>power responsibly (as before) in the interest of all dogs.
>
>About This Release:
>------------------
>
>Windows-Free (WF) is a favorite battle-cry of The League Against
>Forced Fenestration (LAFF). --see
><http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm>http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
>for details on
>the ill-effects of Forced Fenestration.
>
>CopyWrite )C( Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All Writes Reserved.
>LiveDog (DM), GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM) etc., are Registered
>Dogmarks of Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All other dogs belong to
>their respective owners.
>
>--
>Best Regards,
>--raman
>
>
>Email: raman at users.sf.net
>WWW: <http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/>http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/
>AIM: emacspeak GTalk: tv.raman.tv at gmail.com
>PGP:
><http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc>http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
>Google: tv+raman
>IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs
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