Emacspeak News --History Of User-Visible Changes $Id: NEWS-11.0 4047 2006-08-11 19:11:17Z tv.raman.tv $ Author: T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu> Copyright (C) 1995 -- 2000, T. V. Raman * Emacspeak 11.0 Additions And Changes: Emacspeak 11.0 provides the following user level enhancements: *Software speech synthesis: **Emacspeak now supports the IBM ViaVoice Outloud Beta for Linux. See file linux-outloud/NOTES for installation instructions and usage notes. * Enhancements to single click Websearch: emacspeak-websearch.el Module emacspeak-websearch provides single click WWW search functionality from anywhere on the Emacspeak audio desktop. This release adds support for a few more popular search engines --see command emacspeak-websearch-dispatch bound to `C-e ?'. * Dired Mode Enhancements: ** Command emacspeak-dired-speak-file-size speaks the size of a directory when invoked on a directory line. ** Command emacspeak-dired-show-file-type (bound to "'") displays the type of the current file. * Enhancements to PSGML mode: ** Emacspeak now provides simple voice locking for SGML and XML documents. *Enhancements to emacspeak-sounds.el: **Added support for midi icons. If you have a functioning /dev/sequencer, you can have emacspeak produce auditory icons using midi synthesis instead of playing wave files. Note You need to obtain and install package stdiosynth from http://www.leb.net/pub/blinux/emacspeak/blinux/stdiom.tar.gz the documentation in file emacspeak-sounds.el * Speech-enabled support for midge-mode: Midge is a perl utility for composing and playing midi files. Midge-mode is a major mode for editting midge files. *Single click CD player: ** Emacspeak provides single click access to playing audio CDs --see command `cd-tool' bound by default to `C-e DEL'. This allows you to play, stop or skip tracks on the CD. If you have package cdda2wav installed, you can also play or save selected clips from a CD. *Single click access to the sound mixer: **You can set various characteristics of the sound device via command `emacspeak-aumix' bound to "C-e(". *Speech-enabled MPG player: **Emacspeak now speech-enables mpg123.el --an emacs front-end to the popular mpg123 MP3 player. *Speech-enabled reftex mode: **Allows you to browse structured TeX and LaTeX source documents. *Speech-enabled BabelFish: **Module emacspeak-babel.el speech-enables an Emacs interface to Babel-Fish --use this to get documents translated via the Internet. *Speech-enabled RPM support: **Speech-enabled support for browsing the various packages installed on a Linux system. * GnuPlot: Speech-enabled gnuplot mode Emacspeak now speech-enables gnuplot-mode --an Emacs interface to the gnuplot plotting utility. Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: