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                                                        Walter Daems 
                                       walter.daems(at)uantwerpen.be


SpeLaTeX equips the PDF that is generated with LaTeX with hyperlinks
to audio files that contain the spoken equivalent of the original
text, equations, figures and tables.

The audio files can be automatically generated using a Perl-script
called spel-wizard.pl (part of the SpeL::Wizard module available on
CPAN). This script interfaces with locally installed text-to-speech
software or with online available (paying) cloud services to generate
the audio files. To this end, the LaTeX chunks of your text are parsed
and translated to 'natural language'.

SpeLaTeX is babel enabled, such that your text is read with the
correct pronunciation corresponding to your language. So far, it
provides the languages English and Dutch, but it will be extended in
the future.

You can package your PDF together with the audio-files (in your
favorite archive format) and make it available to your users, such
that the only requirements to read your text and listen to the audio
are a suited PDF reader and media player. Not all readers and players
work. Working readers are: okular, acrobat reader, pdfxchange
viewer. Working media players are: SoX, totem, vlc.

The package is part of the SpeLbox package, consisting of
- an Emacs Org-mode exporter, called ox-spelatex (under development,
  will be released soon)
- the LaTeX spelatex package itself
- a perl script 'spel-wizard.pl' available from CPAN in the SpeL::Wizard
  module, that converts text to speech (doing the magic, parsing your
  equations).

The package also functions without the Org-Mode exporter, the latter
just being there to make use more convenient. For the text-to-speech
conversion, one can use free options (festival, balabolka, ...) or
paying services (e.g. AWS polly).

Do you like this package? You're welcome to send us beer, wine, or
just an e-mail with kind words.

If you want to contribute to the package (e.g., by providing some
extra babel support for your language), please contact me.

License
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see file LICENSE


History
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see PDF documentation
