[Athen] supporting a student using text-to-speech to hear mathematics and other STEM content read aloud

[Brian Richwine]

You might look at EquatIO from TextHelp. The student could select an
equation with a rubber band like tool and then it will OCR the math off of
the screen and read it out loud (using TTS). The tool does a pretty decent
job of getting the math right.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 6:52 PM Kevin Andrews <kejandre at ucsc.edu> wrote:


> Hi all,

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> Does anybody have suggestions for supporting a student who is having

> difficulty with math and other stem-related material being read aloud? We

> use Kurzweil here at our institution and as I'm sure many of you know, it's

> not really the best tool to read material with different symbols, equations

> and things like that.

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> I'm curious to hear what other folks are doing to help their students.

> This might mean going back to the drawing board and really trying to figure

> out where the need is and where it's coming from for the tts.

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> Thanks for your insights!

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> Best,

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