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Speech-enabled LaTeX

Synopsis

Text-to-speech software has existed for quite some time. However, it still struggles to properly read mathematical expressions and equations. The SpeLaTeX package, in conjunction with a Perl script, allows you to transform your text into a document with a hyperlink for every chunk of text, equation, table or figure. These hyperlinks, when clicked, cause your media player to read the content out loud, cop- ing properly with mathematics and graphics.

The package targets an audience with reading disorders, as well as people looking for help in focus- ing on the text by having it read out loud while also reading it silently.

At present, the package does not rely on PDF tags for practical reasons, but that is probably where it is heading in the long term.

Package

The package is available on CTAN.

Background

Why use ExSol?

  • It allows to keep the LaTeX source of your exercises and their solutions in a single file. Away with the nightmare to keep your solutions in sync with the original text.
  • It separates exercises and solutions, allowing you
  • to only release the solution book to the instructors of the course
  • to encourage students that you provide with the solution book to first try solving the exercises without opening the book; this seems to be easier than not peeking into the solution of an exercise that is typeset just below the exercise itself.

Installation

Take a look at the package documentation on CTAN.

Usage

Take a look at the package documentation on CTAN.

License

The LaTeX Project Public License (lppl) 1.3 or later.

This software is copyrighted but you are granted a license which gives 
you, the “user” of the software, legal permission to copy, distribute, 
and/or modify the software. However, if you modify the software and then
distribute it (even just locally) you must change the name of the 
software, or use other technical means to avoid confusion.