Emacspeak News --History Of User-Visible Changes $Id: NEWS-12.0 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 12.0 Additions And Changes: Emacspeak 12.0 provides the following user level enhancements: * 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 ?'. This version also takes the first step toward a speech-enabled semantic WWW by retrieving and presenting structured data where available --rather than presentational HTML pages. For an example, see the historical stock data retrieval utilities that come with emacspeak-websearch. * Speech-enabled CVS access via package pcl-cvs * Speech-enabled JDEbug * Speech-enabled instant messenger via package TNT * RealAudio: ** Structured hierarchy of realaudio shortcuts ** Support for browsing realaudio metafiles ** Support for commencing play at a specific time stamp in * Changes relevant to developpers: ** Plugin mechanism for contributed TTS servers: File servers/.servers in the emacspeak directory lists available TTS serves. Emacspeak consults this file upon startup to decide what TTS servers are available at a given installation. Authors of contributed servers are advised to add the name of their server to this file at install time. ** Code has been reorganized into sub-directories. ** SourceForge: Code is now checked into CVS at sourceforge and is available for anonymous cvs access. Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: