[bksvol-discuss] Re: Update on math heavy texts
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:53:25 -0800
Kelli,
Yes, very interesting, I would be driven nuts though by a system that
translated < to "less" as a word.
My TTS software does that of course but I can tell the difference
easily enough by moving character by character.
On 7/27/09, siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kellie,
> I see what you mean. The bookshare tool for Braille translation has a lot
> to be desired. The engineers are working on it.
>
> Sue S.
>
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> From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx>
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> Hi Soronel,
> I didn't get past trigonometry as far as math goes, but there were braille
> signs for every math symbol I ever learned. I never had to invent my own
> code the way I did for linguistics. I just am pretty sure that the
> translation tool for Bookshare doesn't have the facility for calculus and
> beyond. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not. If the translator
> recognizes certain signs, like less-than or greater-than, it will actually
> write it out in words. I can't imagine what it would do with things like "is
> not equal to" or "Is less than or equal to" etc. There are signs in braille
> for the Greek letters and trig functions. You usually learn the symbols
> gradually as you tackle each mathematical concept.
>
> Hope this was explanatory and at least relatively interesting,
> Kellie
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