Mathematical Formula Recognition and Transformation to a Linear Format Suitable for Vocalization
Students with vision impairment encounter barriers in studying mathematics particularly in higher education levels. They must have an equal chance with sighted students in mathematics subjects. Making mathematics accessible to the vision impaired users is a complicated process. This accessibility ca...
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| description | Students with vision impairment encounter barriers in studying mathematics particularly in higher education levels. They must have an equal chance with sighted students in mathematics subjects. Making mathematics accessible to the vision impaired users is a complicated process. This accessibility can be static or dynamic, in static accessibility the user is presented with a representation of the entire mathematic expression passively such as using Braille, dynamic accessibility allows the user to navigate the mathematical content in accordance with its structure interactively such as audio format [1]. MATHSPEAK is an application that accepts objects described in LaTeX and converts it to a linear or sequential representation suitable for vocalization, describing functions to people with severe vision impairment. MATHSPEAK provides interactive dynamic access to mathematic expressions by rendering them to audio format. This paper describes a method to create plain text from images of mathematical formulae and convert this text to LaTeX which is used in the earlier developed algorithm, “MATHSPEAK”. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-434522017-01-30T15:07:41Z Mathematical Formula Recognition and Transformation to a Linear Format Suitable for Vocalization Nazemi, Azadeh Murray, Iain Assistive Technology Mathematic expression component LaTeX Vision Impairment Students with vision impairment encounter barriers in studying mathematics particularly in higher education levels. They must have an equal chance with sighted students in mathematics subjects. Making mathematics accessible to the vision impaired users is a complicated process. This accessibility can be static or dynamic, in static accessibility the user is presented with a representation of the entire mathematic expression passively such as using Braille, dynamic accessibility allows the user to navigate the mathematical content in accordance with its structure interactively such as audio format [1]. MATHSPEAK is an application that accepts objects described in LaTeX and converts it to a linear or sequential representation suitable for vocalization, describing functions to people with severe vision impairment. MATHSPEAK provides interactive dynamic access to mathematic expressions by rendering them to audio format. This paper describes a method to create plain text from images of mathematical formulae and convert this text to LaTeX which is used in the earlier developed algorithm, “MATHSPEAK”. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43452 http://www.enggjournals.com/ijcse/doc/IJCSE13-05-09-040.pdf Engg Journals Publications fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Assistive Technology Mathematic expression component LaTeX Vision Impairment Nazemi, Azadeh Murray, Iain Mathematical Formula Recognition and Transformation to a Linear Format Suitable for Vocalization |
| title | Mathematical Formula Recognition and Transformation to a Linear Format Suitable for Vocalization |
| title_full | Mathematical Formula Recognition and Transformation to a Linear Format Suitable for Vocalization |
| title_fullStr | Mathematical Formula Recognition and Transformation to a Linear Format Suitable for Vocalization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mathematical Formula Recognition and Transformation to a Linear Format Suitable for Vocalization |
| title_short | Mathematical Formula Recognition and Transformation to a Linear Format Suitable for Vocalization |
| title_sort | mathematical formula recognition and transformation to a linear format suitable for vocalization |
| topic | Assistive Technology Mathematic expression component LaTeX Vision Impairment |
| url | http://www.enggjournals.com/ijcse/doc/IJCSE13-05-09-040.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43452 |