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OK, when does #nvdasr get rid of that ol' MathPlayer already?
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RT @zorkow
A New Year, an all new Speech Rule Engine https://speechruleengine.org
V4 release in #TypeScript with
* Support for Norwegian, Swedish, Catalan
* 2D Braille output
* New rules in YAML format
* and more

Supported by @texthelp @NumFOCUS @AAF_1919 @MathJax @idescat

#a11y #STEM
https://twitter.com/zorkow/status/1480599595516264452

What’s new

Turning Formulas into Speech
Speech Rule Engine
#a11y #stem #typescript #nvdasr
in reply to Marco Zehe

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@Marco Old toot, but... there's now also MathCAT, which is open source and being written by Neil Soiffer (who implemented MathPlayer #a11y) to replace MathPlayer. There's an #NVDASR add-on already, and honestly, it's compact enough that I could see NVDA maybe just bundling it one day. The advantage over SRE is that it's written in Rust, so it's much smaller, probably faster and doesn't require a JS engine. https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/MathCAT.en.html

MathCAT

addons.nvda-project.org
#a11y #nvdasr @Marco Zehe

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in reply to Jamie Teh

mrhunsaker
mrhunsaker
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brailleblaster also uses MathCAT to go their math translation into asciiMath
in reply to mrhunsaker

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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Oh, that's fascinating and awesome! So they moved away from liblouisutdml for math then? liblouis is a super important project, but the math stuff was always pretty messy/fragile in my experience.
in reply to Jamie Teh

mrhunsaker
mrhunsaker
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don’t know if they use mathcat instead of or before liblouisutdml. I know if the asciiMath isn’t perfect. brailleblaster borks
in reply to Marco Zehe

mrhunsaker
mrhunsaker
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the one problem with SRE for braille math is that it does #nemeth and not #UEBTechnical. Largely because folks like me have been too busy to fork it to add in the UEB Technical
#nemeth #uebtechnical
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