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Interactive audio documents

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Communicating technical material orally is often hindered by the relentless linearity of audio; information flows actively past a passive listener. This is in stark contrast to communication through the printed medium, where we can actively peruse the visual display to access relevant information.

ASTER is an interactive computing system for audio formatting electronic documents (presently, documents written in (LA)TEX) to produce audio documents. ASTER can speak both literary texts and highly technical documents that contain complex mathematics. In fact, the effective speaking and interactive browsing of mathematics is a key goal of ASTER. To this end, a listener can browse both complete documents and complex mathematical expressions. ASTER thus enables active listening.

This paper describes the browsing component of ASTER. The design and implementation of ASTER is beyond the scope of this paper. Here, we will focus on the browser, and refer to other parts of the system in passing for the sake of completeness.

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                cover image ACM Conferences
                Assets '94: Proceedings of the first annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies
                October 1994
                158 pages
                ISBN:0897916492
                DOI:10.1145/191028

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