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| From | Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica |
| Subject | Re: How do you read Mathematica? |
| Date | 2011-05-10 05:00 +0000 |
| Organization | Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <iqagor$ffu$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink) |
"Plain English" may not be so simple to implement, as it will have to employ a lot of heuristics that humans are good at! BTW, on the Mac, when Mathematica speaks the symbol 'a', it sounds like the indefinite article is pronounced as in "a dog". I didn't check that on a Windows PC yet. On 5/9/2011 8:20 PM, Christopher Young wrote: > On May 8, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >> Actually there is, in a sense, an "official" way to pronounce any Mathematica expression: wrap it in the Speak function (using Hold as necessary) and listed to the resulting sound! > > This is really neat and helpful! I got > Speak[HoldForm[x /. x -> a]] > > to work. > > The only improvements might be to have "plain english", such as "x when x is replaced by a" or something like that. > -- Murray Eisenberg murray@math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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Re: How do you read Mathematica? Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu> - 2011-05-10 05:00 +0000
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