Emacspeak News --History Of User-Visible Changes
$Id: NEWS-13.0 4047 2006-08-11 19:11:17Z tv.raman.tv $
Author: T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu>

* Emacspeak 13.0 Additions And Changes:

Emacspeak 13.0 provides the following user level enhancements:

* Graphical Desktop Environments:


** Sawfish:
Added subdirectory `sawfish' containing a tts.jl module for
interfacing sawfish to the Emacspeak speech servers.
Directory sawfish also contains my personal sawfishrc file
as an example of how to load and use this package.
When set up, this speech-enables the sawfish window manager.


** emacspeak-Sawfish:
Speech-enables interaction with the sawfish window manager.

* Emacspeak Logo:

Emacspeak now has a visual and auditory logo.

** Visual: A 

picture of Hubbell --Yellow Labrador-- with a bubble coming
out of her mouth saying "Complete Audio Desktop" and the
caption "EMACSPEAK" under her picture; thanks to Hans
Zoebelein for the visual design.  This logo is used on the
Emacspeak WWW site, and is available as an XPM file in the
emacspeak/etc directory for use on graphical desktops.

** Auditory Logo:

Emacspeak.mp3 is a 4 second   MP3 file containing the first
few bars of Bach's Toccata And fugue.
The auditory logo is played as Emacspeak starts up.

* New Emacspeak Features:

** Sound Themes:
 In addition to the default 8k  auditory icons, you can now
 install alternative sound themes. Sound themes will be
 distributed separate  from the main emacspeak distribution.

** Streaming Media:
Added support for navigating media streams using TRPlayer.
TRPlayer navigation commands can now be used with
Emacspeak's default 'C-e ;' keybinding.

**freeamp:
emacspeak-freeamp provides a simple interface to the Freeamp
MP3 player.

** MP3 Playlists:
Added command  emacspeak-mp3-play-playlist  to play MP3 playlists.

** Setting auditory display: 
Added single keystroke commands  to adjust global output
volume of the auditory display.

** Browsing XML:
Module emacspeak-psgml defines a simple enhancement  to 
xml-mode to allow single keystroke browsing of XML
documents.


**  Desktop Calculator:
Speech-enabled calculator.el --a simple desktop calculator
that will be bundled with Emacs 21.0.

** Enhanced table browsing:
Added support for sorting tables etc.

** Dictation:
Speech-enables  dictation.el  --an Emacs interface to
ViaVoice for allowing voice dictation within Emacs.

** Buffer Navigation:
Speech-enables package BS --an alternative to buff-menu bundled
with  Emacs 21.

** Generic Modes:
Speech-enables package Generic so that modes defined using
generic.el are automatically speech-enabled.
This provides voice locking support for several new major
modes including javascript-generic-mode, apache-generic-mode and friends.

** Shell Scripts:
Speech-enables module sh-script to provide 
voice lock support for editting shell scripts.

** JDE and JDEBug:
Fully speech-enables all JDEBug  features.

** CVS Access:
Speech-enables CVS access.

** XML And SGML:
Enhanced to cover all aspects of  SGML and XML document
authoring.

** DTD Creation:
Speech-enables package tdtd to enable creation and
maintainance of XML and SGML DTDs.

** XSL IDE:
Speech-enables package xslide to provide  a powerful XSL
authoring environment.
** ibuffer:
Speech-enables ibuffer --an alternative to buffer-menu.


** WebSearch:
Added support for additional search engines.



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