At 09:36 AM 10/25/98 , you wrote:
I am confused.  Is the product you describe meant to work in conjunction
with operating systems such as Windows 95 and 98 and main frame operating
systems?  Is it meant to work in conjunction or instead of use of speech
packages and speech synthesizers?  I just don't understand.  Is this idea
meant to work with or work instead of packages such as Internet Explorer
and Netscape's Navigator or what?  What about word processors and
applications such as Excel?  What about Microsoft Access which is mostly
inaccessable (by the way) with speech packages at present?  Please explainn.
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 08:18:40 -0700
>From: "T. V. Raman" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Announcing Emacspeak-9.0 (BlackLab)
>
>                       Announcing Emacspeak-9.0 (BlackLab)
>                       -----------------------
>
>For Immediate Release:
>
>San Jose, Calif.,  (October 24, 1998)
>    Emacspeak99: Preparing For The Next Millenium
>    --Interactive Accessibility enhances Speech-Enabled Desktop
>
>About Emacspeak:
>---------------
>
>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.
>
>Major Enhancements:
>-------------------
>
>0) Support for nested HTML tables to further enhance Emacspeak's
>already efficient navigation and browsing of structured and
>multicolumn WWW pages.
>
>1)Fluent spoken access to  database applications.
>
>2) Speech-enabled support for creating and maintaining XML documents..
>
>3) Speech-enabling extensions for the following:
>
>    A)Speech-enabled SQL: emacspeak-sql.el
>    B)Network utilities: emacspeak-net-utils.el
>    C) Enhanced Perl Mode:CPerl: emacspeak-cperl.el
>    D) Speech-enabled on-the-fly spell checking.
>    E) Speech-enabled hyperlink navigation in online help buffers.
>    F)Locating Emacs source code: emacspeak-find-func.el
>
>4) Additional user-visible enhancements:
>
>Emacspeak 9.0 speech-enables all  new features introduced in
>Emacs 20.3.
>
>See the release notes for additional details.  The Emacspeak
>source distribution now includes a structured FAQ list
>designed to introduce new and old users to the Emacspeak
>environment.
>
>Preparing For The Next Millenium:
>---------------------------------
>
>Emacspeak is now bundled with all major Linux distributions;
>however, users can rest assured that this present version
>was not released prematurely to defeat anti-trust concerns.
>
>At the same time, Emacspeak 99 continues to innovate in the
>area of speech interaction and carries forward the
>well-established Emacs tradition of introducing user
>interface features that eventually show up in commercial
>user environments.  On this theme, when recently 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 surprize at the unusual
>candor manifest in the assertion that it would take popular
>idiot-proof 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 meven more convoluted
>press releases.
>
>History:
>--------
>
>Emacspeak-9.0 --(AKA Emacspeak 99) code named BlackLab--
>continues to innovate in the areas of speech interaction and
>interactive accessibility.  Emacspeak-8.0 --(AKA
>Emacspeak-98++) code named BlackDog-- is a major upgrade to
>the speech output extension to Emacs.  Emacspeak-95 (code
>named Illinois) was released 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.
>
>Obtaining Emacspeak:
>--------------------
>
>Visit Emacspeak at http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman
>--You can also pick up emacspeak via anonymous ftp from
>ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/raman/emacspeak/.
>You can subscribe to the emacspeak mailing list
><[log in to unmask]> by sending mail to the list
>owner greg e. priest-dorman <[log in to unmask]>.
>
>About Emacspeak:
>---------------
>
>Based at Cornell (NY) <http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman>
>--home to Auditory User Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW--
>Emacspeak is mirrored world-wide by an international netwrok
>of software archives and bundled with all major Linux
>distributions on CDROM.  The Emacspeak mailing list is
>archived at <http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak/>
>--thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman.
>
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>--raman
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