An Evaluation Methodology of Math-to-Speech in Non-English DAISY Digital Talking Books

Riga, Paraskevi; Ioannidou, Polyxeni-Parthena

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_4

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“…Different approaches have been used for automatic conversion to/from spoken form of mathematical notation. One possible solution for the system to read (or write) mathematics in an understandable and proper way is to equip it with a tool for machine translation from mathematical symbolic notation to spoken language [13] and the speech synthesis [18] which often needs additional efforts for non-English national languages [36]. Most of the existing TTS systems intended for mathematics are focused on particular type of input (like L A T E X or MathML) and use a set of pre-defined translation rules in the translation process.…”

Section: Problem Of Verbalizing Mathematics and Available Solutionsmentioning

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Rule based intelligent system verbalizing mathematical notation

Bier

Sroczyński

2019

Multimed Tools Appl

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An adaptive and adaptable multipurpose math-to-speech translation system is proposed in the paper. Along with the detailed presentation and design approach for the core math-tospeech translation system, exemplary output and tests are discussed. A scripting extension, providing flexibility of the system and enabling the user to adjust the output translations to his/hers preferences is incorporated into the presented solution. Some unit-tests and adaptable versions of translation rule sets are elaborated and evaluated by means of standard measures of machine translation quality. Designed as a flexible self contained solution, the presented system may be applied for various purposes such as e-learning audio presentation systems, educational tools for non-native speakers or visually impaired people, and may be easily adjusted to different national languages.

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Section: Problem Of Verbalizing Mathematics and Available Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rule based intelligent system verbalizing mathematical notation

Bier

Sroczyński

2019

Multimed Tools Appl

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“…As it was discussed in the previous section, mathematics accessibility is remarkably improved especially in English-speaking countries. However, it is not so easy to use those technologies in the other countries as they stand (Riga et al , 2016).…”

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An accessible STEM editor customizable for various local languages

Yamaguchi

Suzuki

2019

JET

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to facilitate the spread of accessible e-books, especially ones of STEM much more in developing countries, an efficient/systematic scheme to localize tools for producing/reading them should be established. Furthermore, even in many advanced countries, Print-disabled people still do not have a good tool to write a content including technical notations such as mathematical formulas in their own local language. This work is aimed at giving a practical solution for those problems. Design/methodology/approach Here, multilingual support in a tool to produce accessible STEM contents and its new localization scheme are discussed. Findings It is shown that the accessible STEM-document editor can be customized easily for print-disabled people so that they can read and author a material including complicated technical notations in their own local language. The localization for Vietnamese and other various languages actually has been worked on. Originality/value The Vietnamese version was completed, and some prototype versions for the other languages were also given. It is expected that the software can contribute to improve STEM accessibility much more in many countries.

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“…The mathematical formula is written in MathML notation with additional XML tag, which contains a link to the alternative voice description in the audio file. The standard does not define the principles of an audio alternative description for math formulas and does not allow navigation the inside description [4,25,32,36]. Currently existing solution is EasyReader that allows to read aloud mathematical formulas in DAISY book, without navigation capabilities [10].…”

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Multimedia platform for mathematics’ interactive learning accessible to blind people

Maćkowski

Brzoza

Żabka

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Multimed Tools Appl

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Nowadays, the math learning is an important step in developing professional carriers in technical and economic sciences. Increasing the number of e-learning tools used in universities courses can reduce the potential barrier of access to mathematical knowledge, but most of them are not accessible for impaired students. Moreover, classical printed math books include little explicit instructional information about structural information interpretations. Taking into account these barriers the article presents the developed method used for creating interactive steps of decomposed math's exercise solution and alternative description of math formulas accessible for the blind. The elements of proposed methodology: generation of state machine, design and presentation of transition conditions, generating the presentation layer and a typical usage by a blind user are presented. A set of rules for describing mathematical formulas were proposed after consultation with mathematicians and teachers of blind people. The application was developed as web application. The graphical interface of presented application was designed using PHP and JavaScript technologies. The collection of prepared exercises include about 240 prepared exercises from different areas of mathematics Multimed Tools Appl (2018) and 60 selected exercises including alternative description layer. About 1000 students and about 40 impaired students, from 6 faculties of the university use this platform during math courses for both self and class learning. The defined rules were used to read aloud mathematical formulas to the visually impaired people with a different level of mathematical knowledge. The results confirmed good understanding of mathematical formulas by using prepared alternative description.

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An Evaluation Methodology of Math-to-Speech in Non-English DAISY Digital Talking Books

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Rule based intelligent system verbalizing mathematical notation

Rule based intelligent system verbalizing mathematical notation

An accessible STEM editor customizable for various local languages

Multimedia platform for mathematics’ interactive learning accessible to blind people

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