EMACSPEAK: A SPEECH ODYSSEY 1. DEDICATION: TO MY GUIDING EYES ASTER, HUBBELL AND TILDEN (2/15/1987—12/05/1999) (12/21/1997—4/11/2011) (8/4/2009—9/3/2022) 2. KEY INSIGHTS User...
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1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: San Jose, CA, (May 4, 2024) 1.1. EMACSPEAK 60.0 (DREAMDOG) UNLEASHED! 🦮 — Innate Intelligence (II)™ Makes Accessible Computing a dream! Advancing Acces...
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Here is where I plan to Blog Emacspeak tricks and introduce new features as I implement them.
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SMART MEDIA SELECTOR FOR THE AUDIO DESKTOP 1. OVERVIEW I have over 60GB of audio content on my laptop spread across 755 subdirecories in over 9100 files. I also have many Internet stream shor...
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SMART MEDIA SELECTOR FOR THE AUDIO DESKTOP 1. OVERVIEW I have over 60MB of audio content on my laptop spread across 755 subdirecories in over 9100 files. I also have many Internet stream shor...
https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2024/03/smart-media-selector-for-emacspeak.html
EMACSPEAK HHG: HIDDEN HOLIDAY GEMS 1. INTRODUCTION This is an Emacspeak-specific follow-on to my article Emacs: Hidden Holiday Gems . This article extends its predecessor by: Adding Emacspeak...
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EMACS HHG: HIDDEN HOLIDAY GEMS 1. OVERVIEW The acronym HHG evokes Douglas Adams' Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy in the minds of most geeks. This article takes a quick semi-guided tour throu...
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ANNOUNCING EMACSPEAK 59.0—VIRTUALDOG! To express oneself well is impactful, but only when one has something impactful to express! (TVR on Conversational Interfaces) 1. FOR IMMEDIATE RE...
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TOGETHER: THE OLD AND NEW ARE MUCH BETTER! 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Emacs has had long-standing features like outline-mode and outline-minor-mode that often get forgotten in the face of newer aff...
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AUGMENTING EMACS WITH ZOXIDE FOR EFFICIENT FILE SYSTEM NAVIGATION 1. BACKGROUND Emacs has no shortage of multiple built-in means of navigating the file system with smart, context-sensitive an...
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RETURN TO CONTROL-RIGHT USING XMODMAP AND XCAPE 1. BACKGROUND see previous article on dont punish your finger tips that described how to minimize chording in emacs. that article alluded to p...
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EMACS ERGONOMICS: DONT PUNISH YOUR FINGER TIPS 1. SUMMARY A collection of keybinding changes I have arrived at over time to protect my fingers.Note that I have now used Emacs for more than 33...
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AN ERGONOMIC BUFFER SELECT WITH MINIMAL CHORDING 1. BACKGROUND Buffers are central to Emacs as is evinced by the various buffer-selection schemes that have been created over time. As someone ...
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ANNOUNCING EMACSPEAK 58.0—ERGODOG! To express oneself well is impactful, but only when one has something impactful to express! (TVR on Conversational Interfaces) 1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEA...
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TRAINING WHEELS FOR BETTER ERGONOMICS 1. BACKGROUND In my previous article Ergonomics Using xcape I described my setup to minimize chording in Emacs. The setup is working whell, and in the f...
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ENHANCE EMACS ERGONOMICS UNDER X: HAPPY HANDS! 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Describes customizations under X that makes my hands happier. Leverages features and (mis-features) of modern-day laptops t...
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ASTER: SPOKEN MATH ON THE EMACSPEAK AUDIO DESKTOP 1. DEDICATION To My Guiding Eyes In fond memory of Aster who first showed the way for 10 years; to Hubbell and Tilden who ably followed...
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TOWARD ACCESSIBLE SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTS VIA ARXIV.ORG 1. BACKGROUND I access research papers from arxiv.org multiple times a week. Having originally worked on access to STEM content for my Ph...
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ANNOUNCING EMACSPEAK 57.0—TILDEN! Easy things are often amusing and relaxing, but their value soon fades. Greater pleasure, deeper satisfaction, and higher wages are associated with genui...
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LEARN SMARTER BY TAKING RICH, HYPERTEXT NOTES 1. BACKGROUND As a student, I learned to take notes in Braille while in class and while learning from audio books. When reviewing the material, ...
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EPITAPH: TILDEN LABRADOR EPITAPH Tilden Labrador (TilTil) --- he loved the tinkling of bells --- was born August 4, 2009. I first met him on the morning of July 17, 2011 and he graduated from G...
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EMACSPEAK: THE COMPLETE AUDIO DESKTOP UNDER PULSEAUDIO 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Porting Emacspeak sound environment to Pulseaudio. Until now, emacspeak features that enhance the auditory displ...
https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2022/06/emacspeak-complete-audio-desktop-under.html
ANNOUNCING EMACSPEAK 56.0—AGILEDOG! The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work. – Donald E. Knuth 1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: San Jose, CA, (May 1, 2022) ...
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ADVICE ON EMACS ADVICE 1. INTRODUCTION Love it or hate it, lisp advice is powerful and useful. This article covers some of the places where advice can provide a means of discovering useful be...
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EMACSPEAK IN THE AGE OF CLOUD COMPUTING 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Emacspeak has supported Cloud Computing since 1995, i.e., long before the term was invented. I have used Emacs with Emacspeak runn...
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