Math-to-speech technology

One of the advantages of embedding math in a web page using MathML is that it makes it possible for the math to be spoken. This was always a goal of the W3C in order to make math easier to understand by the visually impaired. MathPlayer provides the ability to speak the math in a web page. The user can do this by choosing Speak Expression on MathPlayer's right-click menu or, more importantly, via a screen reader application such as NVDA, Window-Eyes or JAWS. This work was partially supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Although we see accessibility as the main goal of math-to-speech technology, we have also received interest from educators in teaching normally sighted students how mathematics is spoken.