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Re: How do you read Mathematica?

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On 5/13/2011 3:30 AM, Helen Read wrote:
> On 5/12/2011 4:33 AM, Wolfgang Windsteiger wrote:
>>
>> I can imagine that in an educational context it could be quite nice to
>> have spoken mathematics.
>
> So far the only use I have made of Speak in the classroom was to show my
> students how to use RunScheduledTask and Speak to scare their roommates :-)
>
> The students really got a kick out of it.
>
> --
> Helen Read
> University of Vermont
>

It is quite a different task to have spoken mathematics and spoken 
Mathematica.  The first task is well-explored, and to the extent that it 
can be solved, there are some fairly good efforts, usually aimed at 
visually impaired students.  T.V. Raman's Aster program was one of the 
first, but see this

http://www.snv.jussieu.fr/inova/villette2002/act5b.htm

As for reading Mathematica out loud, there is a simple solution that, 
however, exposes the cryptic nature of Mathematica's syntax.
Simply read out loud the FullForm. That gives "words" for notation like /.

Thus  x/. x->y  is

ReplaceAll[x,Rule[x,y]].

So all you need is a verbalization of [, ], and ",".

Exploring the issue of how one could speak Mathematics INTO a computer, 
is an interesting task.

www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/speakmath.pdf

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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

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