Audio System for Technical Readings

This book is based on the author's Ph.D. thesis which was selected during the 1994 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition as one of the two co-winning works. T.V. Raman did his Ph.D. work at Cornell University with Professor Davied Gries as thesis advisor.
The author presents the computing system ASTER that audio formats electronic documents to produce audio documents. ASTER can speak both literary texts and highly technical documents containing complex mathematics (presented in (LA)TEX).

List of contents

Audio system for technical readings.- Recognizing high-level document structure.- AFL: Audio formatting language.- Rendering rules and styles.- Browsing audio documents.- Related work.- Documentation.- Accessibility.

Product details

• Authors: T V Raman, T. V. Raman, T.V. Raman
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1960
• EAN: 9783540655152
• ISBN: 978-3-540-65515-2
• No. of pages: 131
• Weight: 239 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 131 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Operating systems, user interfaces; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology