Emacspeak 43.0—SoundDog—Unleashed!

For Immediate Release:

San Jose, Calif., (Nov 20, 2015)
Emacspeak: Redefining Accessibility In The Era Of Internet Computing
–Zero cost of Ownership makes priceless software Universally affordable!

Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) --http://emacspeak.sf.net/– announces the
immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 43.0 (SoundDog) –a
powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving data, social
and service-oriented Internet cloud.

1 Investors Note:

With several prominent tweeters expanding coverage of
#emacspeak, NASDOG: ESPK has now been consistently trading over
the social net at levels close to that once attained by DogCom
high-fliers—and as of Nov 2015 is trading at levels close to
that achieved by once better known stocks in the tech sector.

2 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 live access to all aspects
of the Internet such as Web-surfing, blogging, social computing
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 service-oriented social Internet cloud.

3 Major Enhancements:

• Multiple spatially located TTS streams for efficient communication. 🕪
• Refactored, improved sound themes.℗
• Updated org-mode support. 🎶
• Speech-enables package helm.𝍎
• Speech-enable package yasnippet for smart templates. ䷾
• Context-sensitive keyboard shortcuts via package emacspeak-muggles. ⌨
• Speech-enables lua-mode for LUA programming. Ÿ
• Speech-enable package projectile for software project

management. 📽

• Speech-enable package slime for Lisp programming. Λ
• Updated Librivox support to the new API. 📖
• Package XBacklight for controlling LCD brightness. ⎚
• Updated NPR client for one-click access to present and past NPR content.📻
• BBC radio programs via IPlayer and friends. 📢
• Emacs EWW: Consume Web content efficiently. 🕷
• Updated Info manual 🕮
• Speech-enabled Elfeed, an Emacs Feed Reader 🗞
• emacspeak-url-templates: Smart Web access. ♅
• emacspeak-websearch.el Find things fast. ♁
• And a lot more than wil fit this margin. …

4 Establishing Liberty, Equality And Freedom:

Never a toy system, Emacspeak is voluntarily bundled with all
major Linux distributions. Though designed to be modular,
distributors have freely chosen to bundle the fully integrated
system without any undue pressure—a documented success for
the integrated innovation embodied by Emacspeak. As the system
evolves, both upgrades and downgrades continue to be available at
the same zero-cost to all users. The integrity of the Emacspeak
codebase is ensured by the reliable and secure Linux platform
used to develop and distribute 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 remains priceless
as ever—it is being made available at the same zero-cost as
previous releases.

At the same time, Emacspeak continues to innovate in the area of
eyes-free social 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 mousetrap with the assertion "Emacs is a system from
the 70's", the creator of Emacspeak evinced 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.

5 Independent Test Results:

Independent test results have proven that unlike some modern (and
not so 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!".

5.1 Note from Aster,Bubbles and Tilden:

UnDoctored Videos Inc. is looking for volunteers to star in a
video demonstrating such complete user failure.

6 Obtaining Emacspeak:

Emacspeak can be downloaded from GitHub –see
https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak you can visit
Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net/. You can subscribe
to the emacspeak mailing list emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu by sending
mail to the list request address
emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu. The
Emacspeak Blog is a good source
for news about recent enhancements and how to use them.

The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is always available via
Git from GitHub at
Emacspeak GitHub .

7 History:

• Emacspeak 43.0 brings even more end-user efficiency by leveraging the
  ability to spatially place multiple audio streams to provide timely
  auditory feedback.
• Emacspeak 42.0 while moving to GitHub from Google Code continues to
  innovate in the areas of auditory user interfaces and efficient,
  light-weight Internet access.
• Emacspeak 41.0 continues to improve
  on the desire to provide not just equal, but superior access —
  technology when correctly implemented can significantly enhance the
  human ability.
• Emacspeak 40.0 goes back to Web basics by enabling
  efficient access to large amounts of readable Web content.
• Emacspeak 39.0 continues the Emacspeak tradition of increasing the breadth of
  user tasks that are covered without introducing unnecessary
  bloatware.
• Emacspeak 38.0 is the latest in a series of award-winning
  releases from Emacspeak Inc.
• Emacspeak 37.0 continues the tradition of
  delivering robust software as reflected by its code-name.
• Emacspeak 36.0 enhances the audio desktop with many new tools including full
  EPub support — hence the name EPubDog.
• Emacspeak 35.0 is all about
  teaching a new dog old tricks — and is aptly code-named HeadDog in
  on of our new Press/Analyst contact. emacspeak-34.0 (AKA Bubbles)
  established a new beach-head with respect to rapid task completion in
  an eyes-free environment.
• Emacspeak-33.0 AKA StarDog brings
  unparalleled cloud access to the audio desktop.
• Emacspeak 32.0 AKA
  LuckyDog continues to innovate via open technologies for better
  access.
• Emacspeak 31.0 AKA TweetDog — adds tweeting to the Emacspeak
  desktop.
• Emacspeak 30.0 AKA SocialDog brings the Social Web to the
  audio desktop—you cant but be social if you speak!
• Emacspeak 29.0—AKAAbleDog—is a testament to the resilliance and innovation
  embodied by Open Source software—it would not exist without the
  thriving Emacs community that continues to ensure that Emacs remains
  one of the premier user environments despite perhaps also being one of
  the oldest.
• Emacspeak 28.0—AKA PuppyDog—exemplifies the rapid pace of
  development evinced by Open Source software.
• Emacspeak 27.0—AKA
  FastDog—is the latest in a sequence of upgrades that make previous
  releases obsolete and downgrades unnecessary.
• Emacspeak 26—AKA
  LeadDog—continues the tradition of introducing innovative access
  solutions that are unfettered by the constraints inherent in
  traditional adaptive technologies.
• Emacspeak 25 —AKA ActiveDog
  —re-activates open, unfettered access to online
  information.
• Emacspeak-Alive —AKA LiveDog —enlivens open, unfettered
  information access with a series of live updates that once again
  demonstrate the power and agility of open source software
  development.
• Emacspeak 23.0 – AKA Retriever—went the extra mile in
  fetching full access.
• Emacspeak 22.0 —AKA GuideDog —helps users
  navigate the Web more effectively than ever before.
• Emacspeak 21.0
  —AKA PlayDog —continued the
  Emacspeak tradition of relying on enhanced
  productivity to liberate users.
• Emacspeak-20.0 —AKA LeapDog —continues
  the long established GNU/Emacs tradition of integrated innovation to
  create a pleasurable computing environment for eyes-free
  interaction.
• emacspeak-19.0 –AKA WorkDog– is designed to enhance
  user productivity at work and leisure.
• Emacspeak-18.0 –code named
  GoodDog– continued the Emacspeak tradition of enhancing user
  productivity and thereby reducing total cost of
  ownership.
• 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 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.

8 About Emacspeak:

Originally based at Cornell (NY)
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman –home to Auditory User
Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW– Emacspeak is now maintained on
GitHub --https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak —and
Sourceforge —http://emacspeak.sf.net/. The system 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.

9 Press/Analyst Contact: Tilden Labrador

Going forward, Tilden acknowledges his exclusive 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) in the interest of all dogs.

*About This Release:

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the ill-effects of Forced Fenestration.

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HeadDog (DM), LiveDog (DM), GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM) etc., are Registered
Dogmarks of Aster, Hubbell and Tilden Labrador. All other dogs belong to
their respective owners.

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