DPS2024 - 09 - Math books with synthetic speech - Tim Arborealis, Karl Adam Tiderman

MTM (the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media) is developing a fully automated production process for creating books with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) content as talking books with synthetic speech. They are doing this by combining the open source tool MathCAT with commercial components into a cohesive system.
Tim Arborealis is production manager for talking books at the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM). With a background in astrophysics, their primary focus is making books with STEM content accessible. For the past year they have been working on translating MathCAT into the Nordic languages and building it into MTM:s talking book production process.
Karl Adam Tiderman is system owner and deputy head of IT at the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM). He is mainly responsible for the strategic planning and the daily management of MTM’s production and distribution environment. Among this, he is responsible for the integration of MathCAT into MTM current systems.
MTM website: www.mtm.se/english/
We'd like to thank again our event sponsors: The Readium Foundation, La Sofia, Le CFC, Hachette Livre, Fondazione LIA / Aldus UP project, Eden Livres, De Marque, The Dorina Nowill Foundation for the blind