Debian Accessibility Project
Summary
Emacs extensions
Debian Accessibility Screen review extensions for Emacs

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Screen review extensions for Emacs.

Description

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Debian Accessibility Emacs extensions packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

emacspeak
speech output interface to Emacs
Versions of package emacspeak
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sid53.0+dfsg-3all
jessie40.0+dfsg-3all
stretch45.0+dfsg-1all
buster49.0+dfsg-3all
bullseye53.0+dfsg-1all
bookworm53.0+dfsg-2all
trixie53.0+dfsg-3all
upstream60.0
Debtags of package emacspeak:
accessibilityscreen-reader, speech
interfacecommandline
roleplugin
suiteemacs
useediting
works-withaudio
Popcon: 6 users (2 upd.)*
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License: DFSG free
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Emacspeak is a speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system.

Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once Emacs is started with Emacspeak loaded, users get spoken feedback for all actions. As Emacs can do everything, they get speech feedback for everything they do.

This package recommends the speech server for the espeak (software) speech synthesizer, so it should work straight away. However it also contains the source for speech servers to support the DECtalk Express and DECtalk MultiVoice (hardware) speech synthesizers. For other synthesizers, look for speech server packages such as emacspeak-ss and eflite.

The package is enhanced by the following packages: emacspeak-espeak-server multispeech

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

speechd-el
Emacs speech client using Speech Dispatcher
Maintainer: Milan Zamazal
Versions of package speechd-el
ReleaseVersionArchitectures
jessie2.7-1all
stretch2.8-2all
buster2.8-2all
bullseye2.9-2all
bookworm2.11-2all
trixie2.11-2all
sid2.11-2all
Debtags of package speechd-el:
accessibilityscreen-reader, speech
devellibrary
roledocumentation, plugin
suiteemacs
useplaying
works-withaudio
Popcon: 0 users (0 upd.)*
Versions and Archs
License: DFSG free

speechd-el is an Emacs client and an Elisp library to Speech Dispatcher. It provides a complex speech interface to Emacs, focused especially on (but not limited to) the blind and visually impaired users. It allows the user to work with Emacs without looking on the screen, using the speech output produced by the synthesizers supported in Speech Dispatcher.

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