[nabs-l] Math-to-Speech technology project

[Chris Nusbaum]

I'm a little confused here.  How's this going to work, is
it a dictation software like DragonSpeak, or is it like a screen 
reader?
 Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
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Date sent: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:47:43 -0600
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Math-to-Speech technology project

Kevin,
  I do see your point-for me, and probably for most blind people,
nemeth is better than speech for math.  While I personally 
wouldn't
spend a million and a half dollars on a project like this if I 
had the
money (maybe making braille notetakers compatible with nemeth out 
of
the box would be a more productive idea), it's certainly not a 
bad
concept.  Especially in really advanced math where the way things 
are
read matters a little more.
  That being said, along with this we should make sure that our 
rights
to do math in braille are protected.  Is this threatening the use 
of
nemeth braille for advanced math?  I doubt it-it sounds like this 
is
in very early planning, will only work for basic algebra at 
first, and
I don't think there's anything wrong with having two options out 
there
as long as both are protected and you aren't forced to choose 
one.  If
you are being forced to make that kind of choice, I suspect 
that's due
to stubborn people at your DSS office more than the possible
availability of speech technology to help with math.
  So I am very skeptical this will go anywhere.  Most sighted 
people
read and write math, I think it's the same for us.  I'd be 
honestly a
little shocked if this is even able to compete with nemeth code 
as an
exclusive way to access math-but it could maybe be a nice 
appendage to
the code for some people.  Remember Dr.  Nemeth is helping with 
this to
some extent...if he thought this threatened the security of the 
Nemeth
code, I doubt he'd throw his name behind it.
  Warmly,
Kirt

On 5/27/11, Loew, Ruth <rloew at ets.org> wrote:
 Serena -

 The current project is focused on Algebra 1; it is too soon to 
say what a
 future project may address.  Thanks for the suggestion, though; 
I'll keep it
 in mind, and I've already passed it along to the researchers.

 Ruth C.  Loew, Ph.D.
 Assistant Director
 Office of Disability Policy, ETS
 phone: 609-683-2984
 fax: 609-683-2220


 Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:36:04 -0400
 From: "Serena Cucco" <serena.c.cucco at gmail.com
 To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
         <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Math-to-Speech technology project
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 Just wondering, might this project deal with more advanced Math, 
such as
 Statistics, in the future?

 Serena



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