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

Thu Jun 2 16:37:18 UTC 2011

Hi, from what I can understand, kind of a screen reader that will read
the math to you in a form that you can understand, that is,
algebraically.
HTH,
Josh

On 6/1/11, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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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
>  Message-ID: <8E1B0FFA42DD487AA9B9AAC841A249A6 at SerenaPC
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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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