In addition to the above purpose, the current system can be used for other fields such as mobile computing where the sense of hearing plays an important role.
Development is still in progress but essential functions have been already implemented.
Traditional screen-readers are ineffective for complicated GUI because they do not care about the contextual structure of the visual output but speak the displayed characters as a plain text. In Emacspeak, user interfaces are separated from the contents and they arrange the contents so that the information is effectively presented for the sense of hearing. These systems, however, can not treat Japanese and can run only on Emacs. Voice-Meadow is a natural extension of Emacspeak to Microsoft Windows. Voice-Meadow does not use speech recognition as an input method because a computer expert can use a keyboard regardless of one's visual ability and a keyboard is the most efficient input method for an expert.