From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LEE Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `woman' can't be used outside emacs? Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:24:32 +0800 Message-ID: <87bqlpmyan.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> References: <87psadxieu.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167216038 19994 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 10:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 27 11:40:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzWD3-0008Cg-VX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzWD2-0001z1-Pg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:40:32 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mv55/OG1Fbz3gN/4DOXwP9NYmbs= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: n219079022240.netvigator.com Original-X-Trace: 127.0.0.1 1167215074 219.79.22.240 (27 Dec 2006 18:24:34 +0800) Original-Lines: 41 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.net.reach.com!news.net.reach.com!news.net.reach.com!hunewsgate01.netvigator.com!218.102.48.125.MISMATCH!127.0.0.1!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144339 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39941 Archived-At: >>>>> "Dieter" =3D=3D Dieter Wilhelm writes: Dieter> Are you completely blind? So that the emails must be read Dieter> for you by emacsspeak? Then the usual way of "citing" Dieter> (including snippets of older mails) in mailing lists must Dieter> be very disturbing for your hearing experience.=20=20 Why? Don't you know that Gnus highlights citing from different people wiht different colours? (Gnus has been doing so for a long time before this has become a "standard" feature among other news/mail readers.) And don't you know that Emacspeak maps different text highlights to different voices in the text-to-speech engine? So, you hear plain text read in one voice, *bold* text in another, /italic/ in a third, etc. If you're editing a C/C++/Java/whatever program, Emacspeak can read out the reserved word in one voice, class/type names in another, variable names in a third, function names in a fourth, comments in a fifth, etc. I know this because I've tried Emacspeak using IBM's ViaVoice speech synthesizer, which used to be free. (I can't find the link anymore.) It's really amazing! :) Dieter> How are you dealing with this and quotations and acronyms Dieter> and capitalization and ...? Maybe, you can answer your own questions by trying out Emacspeak. Whether it can use different voices depends on what speech synthesizer you're using. I have never got Festival to render as many voices as ViaVoice. --=20 Lee Sau Dan =A7=F5=A6u=B4=B0 ~= {@nJX6X~} E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee