Emacspeak---direct speech access

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Emacspeak is a full-fledged speech output inter- face to Emacs, and is being used to provide direct speech access to a UNIX workstation. The kind of speech access provided by Emacspeak is qual- itatively different from what conventional screen- readers provide —emacspeak makes applications speak— as opposed to speaking the screen. Emacspeak is the first full-fledged speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system (Until now, the only option available to visually impaired users has been to use a talking PC as a terminal.) Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once Emacs is started, the user gets complete spoken feedback. I currently use Emacspeak at work on my SUN SparcStation and have also used it on a DECAL- PHA workstation under Digital UNIX while at Di- gital's CRL . I also use Emacspeak as the only speech output system on my laptop running Linux. Emacspeak is available on the Internet: FTP ftp://crl.dec.com/pub/digital/emacspeak/ WWW http://www.research.digital.com/CRL

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