Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica > #2259

Re: How do you read Mathematica?

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)

Show all headers | View raw


"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

Back to comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica | Previous | NextNext in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Re: How do you read Mathematica? Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu> - 2011-05-10 05:00 +0000
  Re: How do you read Mathematica? Wolfgang Windsteiger <Wolfgang.Windsteiger@risc.jku.at> - 2011-05-12 08:33 +0000
    Re: How do you read Mathematica? Helen Read <readhpr@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 10:30 +0000
      Re: How do you read Mathematica? Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> - 2011-05-14 07:13 +0000

csiph-web