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Emacspeak News --History Of User-Visible Changes

Author: T. V. Raman <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>


* Emacspeak 57 --- Emacspeak 57 User Visible Changes

** Software Dectalk

Emacspeak ~servers/dtk-soft~ implements support for the Software
Dectalk available on  Github.

** Learn Smarter By Taking Rich, Hypertext Notes

Integrates Audio Marks, E-Bookmarks and friends into  a note-taking
workflow --- see [[https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2022/10/learn-smarter-by-taking-rich-hypertext.html][blog article]].

** MPV

Use mpv for playing Youtube streams

** Emacs Repeat-Mode

Emacspeak now leverages  feature ~repeat-mode~  for its media
player commands.

** Speech-Enable Repeat-Mode

When ~repeat-mode~ is active, invoking a command that supports
repeat-mode produces auditory icons ~repeat-start~, ~repeat-active~
and ~repeat-end~.

** Speech-Enable NotMuch

Module ~emacspeak-notmuch~ speech-enables the Emacs Mail Interface to
~NotMuch~.

** Module light.el

Module light.el enables brightness changes for OLED displays ---
alternative to xbacklight.el

** Emacspeak Auditory Display Under Pulseaudio

[[https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2022/06/emacspeak-complete-audio-desktop-under.html][Emacspeak auditory display]] features such as multiple TTS streams work
under Pulseaudio.

** Emacspeak Speciality Browsers

Interactive browsers for EWW Marks,AMarks,  Media History.

** Org-Mode Enhancements

Module ~emacspeak-org~ now integrates ~AMark~ support into org-mode;
users can now enhance notes taken in org-mode with hyperlinks to
AMarks that point to the relevant audio content when listening to
audio books etc.

** Speech-Enable ~journalctl-mode~

Speech-enable package ~journalctl-mode~ to work with SystemD
JournalCTL.

** Sounds Themes Using OGG

This is especially useful when using pulseaudio's ~pactl~ as the
auditory icon program.

** Speech-Enable ffap: find-file-at-point

Speech-enable commands from ~ffap.el~
