In thinking about spoken math, we shouldn't forget "Larry's
SpeakEasy," a guide to spoken technical documents written around 1982
by Dr. Lawrence Chang from one of the Federal research labs in
California, which was published shortly after his death. It is also
worthwhile to listen to AsTeR, Dr. Raman's Audio System for Technical
Readings, which runs under EMACS through a DECtalk and is supported in
his EMACSPEAK program. It seems to be a highly developed "audio
formatting language", which is applicable not only to math, but also
to text containing bulleted lists, hierarchical structure, footnotes,
etc.
Meanwhile, Dr. Nemeth may have given me a few good names for
punctuations that I can put into an exception dictionary for reading
certain types of files.
Lloyd Rasmussen
Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress 202-707-0535
lras@loc.gov
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