./misc/emacspeak, Speech interface for emacs

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 60.0, Package name: emacspeak-60.0, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users
to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Audio
formatting --a technique pioneered by AsTeR-- and full support for
W3C's Aural CSS (ACSS) allows Emacspeak to produce rich aural
presentations of electronic information. By seamlessly blending
all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and messaging,
Emacspeak speech-enables local and remote information via a consistent
and well-integrated user interface. Available free of cost on the
Internet, Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and
thousands of blind and visually impaired users around the world
interact with the personal computer and the Internet. A rich suite
of task-oriented tools provides efficient speech-enabled access to
the audio desktop and evolving semantic WWW. When combined with
Linux running on low-cost PC hardware, Emacspeak/Linux provides a
reliable, stable speech-friendly solution that opens up the Internet
to visually impaired users around the world.

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   2024-05-15 15:30:51 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
emacspeak: add comment about distfile status

Based on an explanation by adr.
   2024-05-14 10:19:11 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (5) | Package updated
Log message:
emacspeak: update to 60.0.

Updated provided by adr.

* Emacspeak 60 --- Emacspeak 60 User Visible Changes

This version requires Emacs-29.1 or later.

* EMPV: Emacspeak And MPV

Module ~emacspeak-empv~ now provides better ~MPV~ interaction and more
Youtube functionality.

* BBC Sounds

More BBC Sounds integration via module ~emacspeak-bbc~.

* Speech-Enable EBuku

Package ~ebuku.el~ is speech-enabled by  module ~emacspeak-ebuku~ ---
this is an Emacs front-end to the ~buku~ bookmark manager.

* The HTML5 Audio/Video Tag In EWW

Module ~emacspeak-eww~ adds support for the HTML5 ~audio~ and ~video~
tags; press ";" in an EWW buffer to move to any audio/video tags in
the page, and pess ";" again to play the content.

* Piper: Neural-Net TTS

Emacspeak now uses Piper TTS if available as one more source of
augmentative   audio  feedback.

* Speech-Enabled LLM Front-End

Emacspeak speech-enables package ~ellama~ and ~gptel~ for interacting
with both local and remote LLMs.

* Pipewire Support

Emacspeak now uses Pipewire if available.
Pulse should be considered deprecated starting with this release.

* Updated Keybindings

Keybindings continue to be revised in the interest of ergonomics.

* Mac Speech Server Using SwiftMac

There is a new speech server  --- SwiftMac --- for the Mac. The older
Python Mac server is now deprecated and unmaintained and will be
declared obsolete with the next release.

* Tree-Sitter Support

Emacspeak  now leverages tree-sitter support if available when
navigating in programming modes.

* Smart Media Selector

See the Emacspeak Blog for details on Emacspeak's \ 
[[https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2024/03/updated-smart-media-selector-for-audio.html][smart \ 
media selector]].

* Smart EBook  Selector

EPub and Bookshare books can also be selected using  a smart selector
similar to the one for media.
   2024-03-13 06:48:36 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (8) 
Log message:
misc/emacspeak: import emacspeak-59.0

Packaged for wip by adr.

Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users
to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Audio
formatting --a technique pioneered by AsTeR-- and full support for
W3C's Aural CSS (ACSS) allows Emacspeak to produce rich aural
presentations of electronic information. By seamlessly blending
all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and messaging,
Emacspeak speech-enables local and remote information via a consistent
and well-integrated user interface. Available free of cost on the
Internet, Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and
thousands of blind and visually impaired users around the world
interact with the personal computer and the Internet. A rich suite
of task-oriented tools provides efficient speech-enabled access to
the audio desktop and evolving semantic WWW. When combined with
Linux running on low-cost PC hardware, Emacspeak/Linux provides a
reliable, stable speech-friendly solution that opens up the Internet
to visually impaired users around the world.