Historical status: This chapter and its included essays are preserved from the Emacspeak application survey. They contain period software, personal paths, obsolete network locations, and setup assumptions. They are not current Emacsvox operating instructions. For maintained guidance, see Applications And Integrations in Emacsvox User Manual; for current public command and option names, see Emacsvox Commands And Options in Emacsvox Reference Manual.
Emacs — The extensible, self-documenting editor, derives its functionality from its powerful extension mechanism. This extension mechanism is used to implement many user-level applications such as mail readers, web browsers, software development environments and so on. This chapter gives directions on how to locate the right Emacs package for addressing specific tasks. The chapter is organized into logical sections that each pertain to a specific class of tasks; in individual subsections within a section give a brief overview of particular Emacs packages that have been speech-enabled.
The original Emacspeak application list at http://emacspeak.sf.net/applications.html is retained only as historical background.