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Re: Emacs is freaking amazing!

From Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
Newsgroups comp.emacs
Subject Re: Emacs is freaking amazing!
Date 2026-04-15 21:23 +0200
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On 2026-04-15 at 12:45, <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> writes:
>
>> That said, I was unaware that emacs had the accessibility features it
>> does. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by that, since it has just
>> about everything else, but that's good to know.
>
> It's not built in, but it definitely exists.

I tried out Emacspeak (as an abled (i.e. non-disabled) person) and
found it usable. But not quite great. In the ongoing hype of “AI”,
there are much better text-to-speech and speech-to-text systems
than what Emacspeak seems to use.

I have been amazed by the prototype that Abhinav Tushar
a.k.a. “lepisma” demonstrated in this blog post from 2024 titled
“Dictation Mode for Emacs”:

	https://lepisma.xyz/2024/09/12/emacs-dictation-mode/

Their dictation mode allows to dictate “write one two three four
as words”, or “... with digits” etc., or give commands like “go
back a word” etc.

Emacs could have an extremely powerful a11y framework! It would
also be useful for abled people.

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Emacs is freaking amazing! Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> - 2026-04-14 07:44 -0500
  Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 09:45 -0400
    Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> - 2026-04-14 09:24 -0700
      Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 13:31 -0400
        Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-14 18:41 +0042
          Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 15:50 -0400
            Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-14 20:45 +0042
              Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-14 20:49 +0042
              Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 16:35 -0400
          Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 12:47 -0500
        Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-04-19 02:20 -0700
          Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-19 12:30 -0400
            Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-04-19 20:11 -0700
            EMACS!!! (ws: Emacs is freaking amazing!) yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-20 12:59 +0042
            EMACS!!! (was: Emacs is freaking amazing!) yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-20 12:59 +0042
      Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-04-14 20:06 +0000
    Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 12:45 -0500
      Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2026-04-15 21:23 +0200
  Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-04-19 02:19 -0700
  Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-04-21 16:41 +0100
  Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Andros Fenollosa <hi@andros.dev> - 2026-04-23 08:33 +0200
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