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PLEASE NOTE: The first of three system maintenance outages has been completed. The second is on 5 October 2026 at 21:45 UTC.

October 5th 2026

We have a required reboot on October 5th 2026 at 21:45 UTC. The system should be back up shortly after that.

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Searching the Archives

Until such time as we have a local search of the archive implemented, we offer this search form which sets up a google site search:
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For Emacspeak:

mail.emacspeak.net/sympa/arc/emacspeak/ Searchable ongoing list of messages starting on July 11, 2023.
Full Archive/ List messages starting in 1995 and updated with the current messages daily.

For Emacsvox:

mail.emacspeak.net/sympa/arc/emacsvox/ Searchable ongoing list of messages starting on Sepember 29, 2026.

Resources and Guides

Emacspeak

http://emacspeak.sf.net Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop on Sourceforge. Information on Emacspeak including press releases, links to the source code, Usage Guides, Tips, and more.
https://emacspeak.blogspot.com
https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak Github Project Pages for Emacspeak. Manual in info and pdf formats, Catalog of Speech-Enabled Applications, Video demos, and a mirror of the blog.
https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/ Emacspeak Online Manual -- 2nd Edition
https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/tips.html Tips And Tricks For The Emacspeak Audio Desktop
https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/applications.html Speech-Enabled Applications On The Emacspeak Desktop

Emacsvox

Git repository: https://github.com/bartbunting/emacsvox
User manual: https://bartbunting.github.io/emacsvox/
Issues and feature requests: https://github.com/bartbunting/emacsvox/issues
Releases: https://github.com/bartbunting/emacsvox/releases

History of the emacspeak mailing list

After almost 25 years being hosted at the Computer Science Department at Vassar College, on February 26th 2021 the emacspeak mailing list moved to a temporary home on emacspeak.org. Now it has found a perminent home at emacspeak.net. The mailing list has been upgraded and is offically running from https://mail.emacspeak.net.

Still to Come

Soon here you will find:

List guidelines
Incorporation of all past list messages into a local searchable archive

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