[Blindmath] Wanted: Examples of good articulation of mathematical expressions

[Lucas Radaelli]

"4. You might also like to look at LaTeX math expressions spoken out
by a screen reader. Some of the ways in which LaTeX expressions are
written translate
efficiently into speech. This is particularly true of fractions.
"

Is there any jaws script that reads LaTeX formulas in a good way? I
have some .html files here, and the alt of the images are LaTeX
formullas, would be great to read them more easily.




2011/4/14, Neil Soiffer <NeilS at dessci.com>:
> I want to correct one small misstatement with respect to MathPlayer's
> speech:  MathPlayer 2.x has it's own paradigm for speech and is not
> based on Nemeth's/gh's MathSpeak.  MathPlayer 3.0 has lots of new
> functionality and does what I've wanted to do for years -- it will
> speak differently depending on the target audience.  As Birkir
> mentioned, what works for someone who is "fluent" in Nemeth may not be
> good for someone who uses UEB and is almost certainly bad for someone
> with dyslexia.
>
> MathPlayer 3 does support MathSpeak, but it also supports other ways
> of speaking math including a re-tooling of it's current speech style.
> I've been working with another group to define yet another speech
> style that they feel best fits their target audience.
>
> I think it is very important that you declare who the target audience
> is, both in terms of level of math sophistication and in terms of
> their disability/needs.  One size does NOT fit all!
>
> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science, Inc.
> www.dessci.com
> ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:09 AM, J.Fine <j.fine at open.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'd like your help. My employer, the Open University, has asked me to
>> write a specification for translation of MathML to speech text.  Please
>> don't get your hopes up too high, because they want it by the end of the
>> month and so it won't be comprehensive.  And there's no guarantee that
>> software will be written that meets this specification.
>>
>> In 1995 Abraham Nemeth wrote "No standard protocol exists for articulating
>> mathematical expressions as it does for articulating the words of an
>> English sentence."  I thing this sums up the problem beautifully.
>>
>> I'd like help with what the outputs should be, particularly from those of
>> you who screen read mathematics.  I've done some background reading and
>> know of  Nemeth's MathSpeak, the Unified English Braille (UEB) "Guidelines
>> for Technical Material", the output produced by Design Science's
>> MathPlayer, and the work of T.V. Raman.  (Raman's software I've not yet
>> installed on my computer.)
>>
>> The context I'm working with is our course S151 "Mathematics for Science",
>> which starts with numbers and powers, goes though graphs, angles, trig and
>> logarithms, and then two chapters on probability and statistics, and
>> finally a chapter that introduces differentiation.  I'd like the outputs
>> to be right for that course, and correspond to what a human reader might
>> say.
>>
>> And so, for example, Pythagoras theorem should be "a squared plus b
>> squared equals c squared".  In another post to this list I will give you
>> some examples I have, invite comments, and ask for more examples.  I know
>> that this does not conform to MathSpeak, but I think it's what's best for
>> S151 students.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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