Re: mathml to plain text | audio?

Ops.. I wrote this in a hurry so I made a little mistake.

ASTER converts Latex to Audio. So you might want MathML to Latex/Tex and not
Latex/Tex to MathML.
See http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/docs/mml-00/xhm2latex.html or
http://tilman.de/mathparser/anleitung_en.html for instance.

Cheers,

Helder


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helder Ferreira" <hfilipe@fe.up.pt>
To: <David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk>; <www-math@w3.org>
Cc: "Diamantino Freitas" <dfreitas@fe.up.pt>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: mathml to plain text | audio?


>
> Hi David,
>
> I'm currently developing a system that converts MathML expressions to Text
> and later on Audio.
> At the moment it only converts simple mathematical expressions but I'm
> hopping that my master thesis (starting October) will be a boost to the
> project.
> Also it currently works only for the portuguese language. You can find a
> demo in: http://lpf-esi.fe.up.pt/~hfilipe/projecto/mathml.html .
>
> There are several groups working in MathML transformation, unfortunately
> only a few people seem concerned with the audio rendering of mathml.
> Also, there aren´t many studies that prove how should we read a
mathematical
> expression. Some readings, as you well said, can have lots of mistakes.
> The more complex the expression, the more difficult it is for you to read
> it. Therefore some navigational tool has to be provided.
>
> Now, about the tools you asked:
>
> You can try MathPlayer 2.0 from DesignScience. It has a Speak function
that
> uses a TTS, but it only works as a pluggin for IE. -
> http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/ .
>
> You can also look into the T.V. Raman's work about ASTER.-
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/aster/demo.html .
> However ASTER works for Latex documents. Nevertheless, you can transform
> Latex to MathML (see http://www.orcca.on.ca/MathML/texmml/textomml.html ).
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Helder Ferreira
> http://www.fe.up.pt/~hfilipe
>
>
> PS: I might have more links and references that might interest you... but
I
> don´t have my notebook here. I'll send them to you later.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk>
> To: <www-math@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:52 PM
> Subject: mathml to plain text | audio?
>
>
> >
> >
> > www.daisy.org is a group of organisations who produce smil based
> > 'talking books'. Synchronised text and audio for blind and partially
> > sighted people.
> >
> > We are starting to look at incorporating mathml into our schema,
> > and that's fine for producing braille, just hard work.
> >
> > However, for 'spoken' math(s), it presents a problem  of automation.
> > For more complex stuff, human readers tend to make mistakes, hence
> > synthetic speech is often used.
> >
> > Put simply, mathml isn't 'readable' in its XML format (my view :-).
> > Certainly if serialised it wouldn't sound very good via a TTS engine.
> >
> > I'm informed others have looked at mathml to 'plain text' transforms,
> >  perhaps with paragraph level formatting.
> > I'm wondering if any such transforms are available open source, or could
> > be licenced to the daisy group for our readers?
> >
> > Any pointers appreciated.
> >
> > Regards DaveP.
> > www.rnib.org.uk
> >
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