MathPlayer with Word and PowerPoint

MathPlayer 4 speaks, navigates, and brailles math with NV Access' NonVisual Desktop (NVDA) in Microsoft Word & PowerPoint. MathType is required for this capability. ****Speech and navigation also work with Window-Eyes software. See our separate page for MathPlayer Navigation Commands in Word.

During installation, MathPlayer adds a tab to the ribbon in Word and PowerPoint 2007 and later, 32-bit Office only. This is the tab from Word 2016. Its appearance is the same in other versions of Word, and in PowerPoint:

Toolbar commands

• Speak. Speaks the selected equation. In Word, if there is not an equation currently selected, MathPlayer will search for the next MathType equation in the document and speak it. If there is not another equation in the document, it will stop at the end. In PowerPoint, equations must be selected in order for them to be spoken with the Speak button.
• Navigate. Speaks the selected equation, with navigation keys enabled. For navigation commands, see our separate page for MathPlayer Navigation Commands in Word. When an equation is not selected, MathPlayer navigates to the next equation in the document and speaks that equation, with navigation keys enabled.
• Settings. Opens the MathPlayer Settings dialog shown below.
• Help. Opens the MathPlayer Manual (i.e., this page), focused on the MathPlayer Settings section below. There must be an active internet connection or this command will fail. Note: All of these items have keyboard equivalents and can be used with other assistive technology such as JAWS to speak and navigate the math.