Saw the following on "alt.comp.blind-users". Perhaps someone can help.
Mike Freeman
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From: sfpse@u.washington.edu (Russell Brunelle)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.blind-users,comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX->Speech Converter? Where?
Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:02:38 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Hello. I am a teaching assistant at the University of Washington, and am
responsible for setting up the WWW page for ENGR 315, a probability and
statistics class.
I would like to make this page as accessible as possible for people with
visual impairments. It is my understanding that software exists which
will read audibly text on HTML pages, and that Adobe has recently created
a plug-in that will allow PDF files to be read audibly. Fine.
But this leaves us with the problem of technical documents with
equations. I had heard that there are special pieces of software which
will read LaTeX files audibly, rendering the equations in special ways
with special pitches.
I would LOVE it if you could e-mail me a WWW page address or phone number
for a company or companies which can provide this capability. I had heard
that something called AsTeR can be used, but I have no idea where this
software might be located.
I may be e-mailed at sfpse@u.washington.edu.
Sincerely,
Russell Brunelle
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