[texhax] Reading file by machines
hh
hh-brasil at bol.com.br
Tue Oct 20 13:34:54 CEST 2009
Hello,
at the moment - the german book fair was certainly a suitable
propagation place - machines are offered for reading books on a
screen.
But what happens if someone wants to "hear" the book? If the machine
can't do it now, in the future they will quite certainly be able to
do that.
But what happens with scientific books? If you have something which
appears printed as "320 kJ/kmol" or 1°C, how that will be read?
I'm aware that packages like "siunitx" might be the source of a
solution as - when using them - you have to write
"\SI{320}{\kilojoule\per\kilomole}" or \SI1\degreecelsius. Which in
of course seems much more suitable to be transformed in some kind of
voice readable (unvisible) text.
Question: Was anything done already to make the voice reading (by
machine) of scientific text to a person more easy? Is there any
information available? Or is this too far for TeX?
With regards
hh
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