[Blindmath] Question on MathML accessibility with Kurzweil 3000

[Tom Tillo]

Thanks Birkir and Paul .

K3000 v12 claims to read ML ( atleast thats what I saw in their official
literature ).
It has the , I quote,   "Ability to read MathML through a partnership with
Design Science, Inc"
It does have the FineReader engine in it , but not the OCR for math
characters, for which one has to depend on Infty Reader. ( Iam just trying
to see if I can make K3000  read pages which already have MathML embedded
into them ) - So far I have been unsuccessful , and I believe its something
tiny that Iam missing.

MathPlayer does read MathML but I use it in conjunction with a screen reader
to read the whole page. ( As far as I understand, Mathplayer only reads
anything between the <math> ... </math> tags . ) Am wondering if they have
exposed its APIs to be used by a developer, so that I could develop
something with eSpeak+ VB + mathPlayer APIs. ( To make something that can
read just webpages with MathML in it )

Any inputs are welcome .
Tom



On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:25 PM, PR Stanley <prstanley at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Actually, the commandline version of the InftyReader is totally free! If
> anyone wants a copy please don't hesitate to drop me a line.
> Paul
>
> At 15:49 04/09/2010, you wrote:
>
>>  Tom
>>
>> I am confused.
>> I thought MathPlayer from Design Science was what you were looking
>> for. Plays math ml and it is freeware.
>> I did not know that K3000 played math ml, in any case I find that
>> product just very expensive, even if it is a good scanner.
>> For math scanning I'd go with Infty Reader, it is less expensive and I
>> know they have student pricing.
>> Thanks
>> -Birkir
>>
>>
>> On 9/4/10, Tom Tillo <tomtillo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All ,
>> >
>> > I have downloaded the trial version of Kurzweil 3000 ( version  12 )
>> since I
>> > read that it has extended support for mathml. I tried it out with
>> several
>> > sites with MathML embedded in them , but was unable to read the MathML
>> bit.
>> > It fails to recognise the math characters. (Even with the firefox
>> extension
>> > for K3000 - kesireader.xpi )
>> >
>> > I guess Iam overlooking/missing something small. If any one of you have
>> > tried to read mathML using K3000, can you please fill in the missing
>> link
>> > for me ?
>> >
>> > Thanks and Regards
>> > Tom
>> > tomtillo at gmail.com
>> >
>> > P.S: On a different topic - Has anyone tried to link eSpeak / any SAPI5s
>> > compliant synthesisers with the MathPlayer APIs ? I was thinking ..  it
>> > could be developed into a *FREE* reader for MathML, like that provided
>> by
>> > K3000 .
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