>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:40:28 -0800
>From: "T. V. Raman" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Emacspeak-17.0 (HappyDog) Unleashed!
>To: norm coombs <[log in to unmask]>
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> Emacspeak-17.0 (HappyDog) Unleashed!
> ----------------------------------
>
>For Immediate Release:
>
>San Jose, Calif., (November 23, 2002)
> Emacspeak-2003: Empowering Experienced Users
> --Zero cost of ownership makes priceless software affordable!
>
>Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) --http://emacspeak.sf.net--
>announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 17.0
>--a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving
>semantic WWW.
>
>Investors Note:
>---------------
>
>With several prominent analysts initiating coverage, NASDOG: ESPK
>is now trading over the net at levels close to that recently
>attained by last year's DogCom high-fliers.
>
>What Is It?
>-----------
>
>Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that provides
>complete eyes-free access to all major 32 and 64 bit operating
>environments. By seamlessly blending all aspects of the Internet
>such as Web-surfing and electronic messaging into the audio
>desktop, Emacspeak enables speech access to local and remote
>information with a consistent and well-integrated user interface.
>A rich suite of task-oriented tools provides efficient
>speech-enabled access to the evolving semantic WWW.
>
>Major Enhancements:
>-------------------
>
>
>1) Enhanced Emacs 21 support.
>2) emacspeak-w3.el --smart content filters using XSLT.
>3) emacspeak-websearch.el --Search wizards using content filters.
>4) emacspeak-url-template.el --Programmable url templates using content
>filters.
>5) emacspeak-wizards.el --Additional productivity wizards.
>6) Software Dectalk --Speech server for Software Dectalk TTS.
>7) emacspeak-rpm-spec.el --Editing RPM spec files.
>8) emacspeak-m-player.el --Media player interface.
>9) emacspeak-pronounce.el Custom dictionaries for smileys and XMl namespaces.
>10) emacspeak-ecb.el --Enhanced ECB support.
>
>See the NEWS file for additional details.
>
>Establishing Freedom:
>---------------------
>
> Emacspeak is now voluntarily bundled with all major Linux
>distributions. Though designed to be modular, distributors have
>freely chosen to bundle the entire system without any undue
>pressure. The integrity of the Emacspeak codebase is ensured by
>the reliable and secure Linux platform used to develop the
>software.
>
>Extensive studies have shown that thanks to these features, users
>consider Emacspeak to be absolutely priceless. Thanks to this
>wide-spread user demand, the present version is being made
>available at the same zero-cost as earlier releases.
>
>At the same time, Emacspeak-2003 continues to innovate in the
>area of speech and multimodal interaction and carries forward the
>well-established Open Source tradition of introducing user
>interface features that eventually show up in luser environments.
>On this theme, when once challenged by a proponent of a
>crash-prone but well-marketed windowing system with the assertion
>"Emacs is a system from the 70's", the creator of Emacspeak
>expressed surprise at the unusual candor manifest in the
>assertion that it would take popular idiot-proven interfaces
>until the year 2070 to catch up to where the Emacspeak audio
>desktop is today. Industry experts welcomed this refreshing
>breath of Courage Certainty and Clarity (CCC) at a time when
>users are reeling from the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
>unleashed by complex software systems backed by even more
>convoluted press releases.
>
>Independent Test Results:
>-------------------------
>
>Independent test results have proven that unlike some modern
>software, Emacspeak can be safely uninstalled without adversely
>affecting the continued performance of the computer. These same
>tests also revealed that once uninstalled, the user stopped
>functioning altogether. Speaking with Aster Labrador, the creator
>of Emacspeak once pointed out that these results re-emphasize the
>user-centric design of Emacspeak; "It is the user --and not the
>computer-- that stops functioning when Emacspeak is
>uninstalled!".
>
>Note from Aster and Bubbles:
>----------------------------
>
>UnDoctored Videos Inc. is currently looking for volunteers to
>star in a video demonstrating such complete user failure.
>
>Obtaining Emacspeak:
>--------------------
>
>Emacspeak can be downloaded from sourceforge --see
>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/emacspeak/ You can visit
>Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net or
>http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak. You can subscribe
>to the emacspeak mailing list [log in to unmask] by sending
>mail to the list request address [log in to unmask]
>The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is available via
>anonymous CVS from sourceforge.
>
>History:
>--------
>
>Emacspeak-17.0 --code named HappyDog-- enhances user productivity by
>exploiting today's evolving WWW standards. Emacspeak-16.0 --code named
>CleverDog-- the follow-up to SmartDog-- continued the tradition of
>working better, faster, smarter. Emacspeak-15.0 --code named
>SmartDog--followed up on TopDog as the next in a continuing a series
>of award-winning audio desktop releases from Emacspeak Inc.
>Emacspeak-14.0 --code named TopDog--was the first release of this
>millennium. Emacspeak-13.0 --codenamed YellowLab-- was the closing
>release of the 20th. century. Emacspeak-12.0 --code named GoldenDog--
>began leveraging the evolving semantic WWW to provide task-oriented
>speech access to Webformation. Emacspeak-11.0 --code named Aster--
>went the final step in making Linux a zero-cost Internet access
>solution for blind and visually impaired users. Emacspeak-10.0 --(AKA
>Emacspeak-2000) code named WonderDog-- continued the tradition of
>award-winning software releases designed to make eyes-free computing a
>productive and pleasurable experience. Emacspeak-9.0 --(AKA Emacspeak
>99) code named BlackLab-- continued to innovate in the areas of speech
>interaction and interactive accessibility. Emacspeak-8.0 --(AKA
>Emacspeak-98++) code named BlackDog-- was a major upgrade to the
>speech output extension to Emacs.
>
>Emacspeak-95 (code named Illinois) was released as OpenSource on
>the Internet in May 1995 as the first complete speech interface
>to UNIX workstations. The subsequent release, Emacspeak-96 (code
>named Egypt) made available in May 1996 provided significant
>enhancements to the interface. Emacspeak-97 (Tennessee) went
>further in providing a true audio desktop. Emacspeak-98
>integrated Internetworking into all aspects of the audio desktop
>to provide the first fully interactive speech-enabled WebTop.
>
>About Emacspeak:
>----------------
>
>Based at Cornell (NY) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman
>--home to Auditory User Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW-- and
>SourceForge --http://emacspeak.sf.net-- Emacspeak is mirrored
>world-wide by an international network of software archives
>and bundled voluntarily with all major Linux distributions. On
>Monday, April 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the
>Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information
>Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American
>History.
>
>The Emacspeak mailing list is archived at Vassar --the home of the
>Emacspeak mailing list-- thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman, and provides a
>valuable knowledge base for new users.
>
>Press/Analyst Contact: Hubbell Labrador
>
>Going forward, BubbleDog acknowledges her monopoly on setting the
> direction of the Emacspeak Audio Desktop, and promises to exercise
> this freedom to innovate and her resulting power responsibly (as
> before).
>
>About This Release:
>------------------
>
>According to Hubbell Labrador, this release does not contain
>the much-vaunted SmartTag feature --despite the codename.
>Emacspeak Inc. promises to introduce SmartDogs soon based on
>customer demand.
>
>Windows-Free (WF) is a favorite battle-cry of The League Against
>Forced Fenestration (LAFF). --see
>http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm for details on
>the ill-effects of Forced Fenestration.
>
>CopyWrite )C( Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All Writes Reserved.
>GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM) etc., are Registered Dogmarks of Aster and
>Hubbell Labrador.
>All other dogs belong to their respective owners.
>
>--
>Best Regards,
>--raman
>
>
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>WWW: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/
>AIM: TVRaman
>PGP: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.asc
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