SpeLaTeX: speech-enabled LaTeX
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Release 2026-04-09 v0.96

Overview
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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.

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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All files of beamer-reveal are subject to the LPPL.

The package spelatex may be distributed and/or modified under
the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
of this license or (at your option) any later version.
The latest version of this license is in
  http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt.


Issues
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Please, report issues to: walter.daems@uantwerpen.be


Development team
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This package is developed by [Walter Daems](mailto:walter.daems@uantwerpen.be).

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Copyright (C) 2025-2026 Walter Daems, 
all rights reserved.
