Emacspeak

Emacspeak is a

Emacspeak achieves its integration by being written largely in Emacs Lisp using "advice", enabling it to literally be a wrapper around most functions that change or otherwise modify the display. Auditorily, verbalizations are pre-emptible, and common actions like opening a menu or closing a file have a brief sound associated with that particular action; it also immediately verbalizes all insertions of characters, and attempts to speak as much of the context sentences around the cursor's present location as possible.

Emacspeak facilitates access to a wide variety of content, from the web to

On Monday, April 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian Museum's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

As of November 22, 2023, Emacspeak is at version 59.^[4] Each release was codenamed after a dog.^[5]

• emacspeak on GitHub
• Emacspeak on SourceForge
  • Official list of Emacs applications that work with Emacspeak (~146); notably Sawfish, Dired, w3m/lynx, erc, mplayer, OpenSSH, ispell etc.
• Emacspeak mailing list
• Paper on Emacspeak by T. V. Raman
• Blog by T. V. Raman, on using Emacspeak
• Emacspeak Installation HOWTO -(from
  The Linux Documentation Project
  )
• "Emacspeak Tutorial" (.tar.gz file). By Nita Van Zandt at the Wayback Machine (archived November 17, 2001)
• "A Gentle Introduction to Emacspeak: a quickstart for normal people"
• Article on screen reading technology; focuses partially on Emacspeak at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
• Emacspeak on the EmacsWiki
  • Emacspeak Tricks