Emacspeak News --History Of User-Visible Changes $Id: NEWS-16.0 4047 2006-08-11 19:11:17Z tv.raman.tv $ Author: T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu> * Emacspeak 16.0 Additions And Changes: Emacspeak 16.0 provides the following user level enhancements: * New Emacspeak Features: ** emacspeak-daisy: Digital Talking Book Reader Module emacspeak-daisy.el implements a browser for working with Digital Audio Books conforming to the Daisy3 specification --invoked by command emacspeak-daisy-open-book. ** Speech-enables W3M W3M is an alternative to using Emacs W3. ** IMCom for Jabber: Module emacspeak-imcom provides a speech-enabled wrapper for Jabber client IMCom. ** XML Shell: Module emacspeak-xml-shell implements an XML Shell for walking XML trees interactively. ** emacspeak-analog.el: Log Analyzer Speech-enables package analog --a convenient means for viewing multiple log files. ** eperiodic: Periodic Table Of Eleements Speech-enables a simple periodic table of elements. ** Pronunciation Dictionaries New Command to interactively edit Emacspeak pronunciation dictionaries. ** Tools: *** Wizards for Viewing XL and PowerPoint Files: Install package xlhtml http://www.xlhtml.org --this provides convertors xlhtml and ppthtml that convert .xls and .ppt files to HTML. If installed, Emacspeak can use this tool to preview .xls and .ppt files using W3 when a .xls or .ppt file is opened in emacs. *** emacspeak-wizards-shell-toggle: Switches to shell buffer and automatically changes directory to the default directory of the previously current buffer. *** Shell mode mode-line format: Speak directory as part of the mode-line. ** stereo-outloud: New speech server stereo-outloud implements a speech server for ViaVoice TTS using in-memory synthesis. Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end:
