ShortTalk aspires to be a perfect and universal spoken language for editing and other intensive computer-mediated tasks. EmacsListen, the GNU Emacs code base in this project, implements ShortTalk and addresses key usability issues in dictation systems. EmacsListen is a software that turns GNU Emacs into a voice-enabled editor. It comes with a grammar for ShortTalk, but its generic notion of voice event and extensive support for text identification and normalization make it suitable for implementing other spoken interfaces. - dexter.yy