EMACSPEAK The Complete Audio Desktop

After a gap of 7 years, I will once again attend CSUN in LA this year. This will also be Bubbles' first CSUN --- I attended CS...

1 An Emacs Interface To Google Services Google offers a number of services using a Google account. Many of these services also exp...

I've now made all Emacspeak releases available from the download area on Googlecode. Going forward, all Emacspeak releases will b...

I had earlier reported the IBM TTS engine segfaulting on my home Ubuntu 6 machine; I'm still to fix that problem. Surprizingly though...

From the every new Google search tool gets a corresponding Emacspeak wizard dept : Google just introduced Patent Search an easy to use se...

I released Emacspeak 25.0 (ActiveDog) yesterday. Here are the release notes . While trying to release it on Sourceforge I ran into a coup...

Every useful Web tool deserves a Web short-cut. Google just announced a new service called Code Search that lets you search the codebase...

In the spirit of You can never have sufficiently many media players , I now have Helix Player working under Emacspeak i.e., I can now r...

On the positive side with respect to software synthesis, the Software Dectalk does work out of the box on Ubuntu --- out of the box that...

I upgraded my home FC3 machine to Ubuntu 6.0.6 (Dapper) over the weekend. Here is a short summary for things to watch out for as an emacspe...

To mark the arrival of Google News Archive search, I checked in a Archive News Search url-template yesterday morning. To use it, hit C-e...

The initial experiment of moving emacspeak development to Subversion at Google Code Hosting has been largely successful. After a few bumps ...

I've checked in the Emacspeak codebase into the Subversion repository provided by Google Project Hosting . The project page is Emacspe...

Zipping Through Web Pages With Emacspeak/W3 I just added an experimental zip through Web pages shortcut to emacspeak-w3 . The command i...

Introduction I've received a number of queries asking about the differences between Emacspeak and Speechdel ---especially given some ...

Google has released an early experiment that favours easy to read Web content --- checkout the relevant Blog post here . Emacspeak has al...

And now, with ALSA working well with software TTS and cooperating with ALSA_aware streaming applications such as mplayer it's time to...

In ALSA and ASYM I mentioned that speakfreely appeared to have stopped working. As it turns out, this had nothing to do with the switch ...

This is a continuation of the earlier thread about using ALSA for software TTS using DMix --- see ASoundrc And Emacspeak . I've now ...

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA is a boon for software TTS users --- you can now use your soundcard to produce spoken output wh...