[BlindMath] Issues With Math Player

[Taylor Arndt]

Bhavya,
I would have a look at access 8 math. This is an alternative to math
player, and it has some options you may be looking for.
Here is the link.
https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/access8math.en.html
Hope this helps.
Taylor

On 12/6/20, Bhavya shah via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am facing a number of inconveniences in reading mathematical content
> with Math Player 4.0 and NVDA 2020.3. I have configured Math Player to
> read in the blindness, ClearSpeak and Terse modes.
> * It reads the same symbol differently in different contexts, often
> incorrectly. It reads the colon used while defining functions as
> 'ratio' and I would personally much prefer if the colon was
> universally read just as colon rather than as 'ratio', 'such that' and
> 'maps'. To be clear, the colon is just one example of a more prevalent
> issue. I like to speak and hear Math in concise forms rather than the
> most contextually and conventionally appropriate manner. But while
> screen readers have features like dictionary manager and speech
> dictionaries, Math Player does not have something similar.
> * There is a great deal of pausing while reading anything, even simple
> expression, to an extent that it serves as a slowdown. As someone who
> uses fast speech synthesis, I find the pauses between parts of an
> expression jarring. There doesn't seem to be any way to disable or
> reduce these pauses either.
> The underlying concern common to all of these is that as it stands,
> Math Player is not very customizable and it is not clear if there are
> any plans to update or maintain it in the future. Given that, I have
> the following questions:
> * Are there some hacky work-arounds to get around the issues I outlined
> above?
> * Do any alternatives to Math Player exist today? Even if such
> alternatives don't address my concerns currently, if they are active
> projects, there is at least the hope that the customizability I seek
> could get implemented in the future.
>
> I would truly appreciate any assistance!
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Bhavya Shah
> Stanford University | Class of 2024
> E-mail Address: bhavya.shah125 at gmail.com
> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavyashah125/
>
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Taylor