ISBN: 3-540-65515-8
TITLE: Audio System for Technical Readings
AUTHOR: Raman, T.V.
TOC:

1. Audio System for Technical Readings 1 
1.1 Motivation 2 
1.2 What is ASTER? 3 
1.3 Rendering Documents 4 
1.4 Extending ASTER 6 
1.5 Producing Different Audio Views 7 
1.6 Using the Full Power of ASTER 8 
2. Recognizing High-Level Document Structure 13 
2.1 Document models 13 
2.2 Representing Mathematical Content 16 
2.3 Constructing High-Level Representations 21 
2.3.1 Lexical Analysis and Recognition 21 
2.3.2 Constructing the Quasi-Prefix Form 22 
2.4 Macros Introduce New Object Types 24 
2.4.1 How define-text-object Works 27 
2.4.2 Rendering Instances of User-Defined Macros 28 
2.5 Unambiguous Document Encodings 29 
3. AFL: Audio Formatting Language 33 
3.1 Overview 33 
3.2 The Speech Component 34 
3.3 Combining Different Spaces in AFL 40 
3.4 Audio Formatting using Non-Speech Audio 43 
3.5 The Pronunciation Component 47 
3.6 Some Concluding Remarks on AFL 47 
4. Rendering Rules and Styles 51 
4.1 Rendering Rules and Styles 51 
4.2 Rendering Document Content 54 
4.3 Rendering Mathematics 57 
4.4 Processing the Quasi-Prefix Form 64 
4.5 Descriptive Renderings 65 
4.6 Variable Substitution 68 
4.7 Floating Objects 74 
5. Browsing Audio Documents 77 
5.1 Introduction 77 
5.2 How Does Browsing Work? 78 
5.3 Traversing High-Level Document Structure 80 
5.4 Rendering the Current Selection 83 
5.5 Cross-References and Bookmarks 85 
6. Related Work 87 
6.1 Electronic Documents 87 
6.2 Summary of Work in Audio Interfaces 91 
A. Documentation 95 
A.1 Setting Up ASTER 95 
A.2 The Recognizer 96 
A.3 AFL 97 
A.3.1 The Total Audio Space 97 
A.3.2 The Speech Component 98 
A.3.3 The Non-Speech Audio Component 101 
A.4 Rendering Information Structure 103 
A.4.1 Processing the Quasi-Prefix Form 103 
A.4.2 Rendering Rules and Styles 103 
A.5 The Browser 105 
A.6 Some CLOS Terminology 108 
B. Accessibility 111 
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