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

[Kirt Manwaring]

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'"
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> 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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