[BlindMath] BlindMath Digest, Vol 149, Issue 6

Mon Dec 10 16:56:30 UTC 2018

EquatIO <https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/> has speech to
text math input.

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> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 21:15:39 -0500
> From: "Sarah Jevnikar" <sarah.jevnikar at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [BlindMath] A question about vocal software
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> Hi Emanuela,
> I'm not sure if this would help, but The software called MathTalk might be
> useful: https://mathtalk.com/
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> I hope it works for your student,
> Sarah
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Emanuela Ughi via BlindMath
> Sent: December 6, 2018 4:48 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Cc: Emanuela Ughi
> Subject: [BlindMath] A question about vocal sofware
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> I apologize since my question is perhaps off topic, but I think that here
> there knowledge enough about it.
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> A teacher asked me about a high school girl, having spastic tetraplegia,
> and so having severe moving difficulties.
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> So she is searching for a vocal sofware, able to transform a vocal order
> (like ?square root times open bracket ? elevated to the 9-th power) to the
> corresponding mathematical expression.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thank you
>
> Emanuela Ughi
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> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 22:21:24 -0800
> From: Neil Soiffer <soiffer at alum.mit.edu>
> To: sarah.jevnikar at gmail.com,   Blind Math list for those interested in
>         mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [BlindMath] A question about vocal software
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> Two more modern solutions would be TextHelp's EquatIO which allows speech
> input (uses Google's speech recognition technology) and some version of
> Pearson's accessible editor (uses Dragon Naturally speaking's technology).
> Neither has studied error rates, although both do a pretty good job.
> However, neither speech recognition engine is really trained for math, so
> errors will happen. Dealing with those errors will likely be a
> problem/source of frustration for the student. Still, something is better
> than nothing...
>
>      Neil
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> On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 6:18 PM Sarah Jevnikar via BlindMath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Emanuela,
> > I'm not sure if this would help, but The software called MathTalk might
> be
> > useful: https://mathtalk.com/
> >
> > I hope it works for your student,
> > Sarah
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> > Emanuela Ughi via BlindMath
> > Sent: December 6, 2018 4:48 AM
> > To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> > Cc: Emanuela Ughi
> > Subject: [BlindMath] A question about vocal sofware
> >
> > I apologize since my question is perhaps off topic, but I think that here
> > there knowledge enough about it.
> >
> > A teacher asked me about a high school girl, having spastic tetraplegia,
> > and so having severe moving difficulties.
> >
> > So she is searching for a vocal sofware, able to transform a vocal order
> > (like ?square root times open bracket ? elevated to the 9-th power) to
> the
> > corresponding mathematical expression.
> >
> > Any suggestion?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Emanuela Ughi
> >
> > --
> > Emanuela Ughi
> > Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
> > Via Vanvitelli 1 - 06123 Perugia
> > (39) 340 3341040
> > www.emanuelaughi.com
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