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There is a plugin for Internet Explorer called MathPlayer which is a text-to-speech plug-in for mathematical expressions. It can read mathematical expressions aloud.

However, I'm not using Internet Explorer, since I'm on Linux. Is it possible to use MathPlayer without Internet Explorer?

Or perhaps if that's out, is there comparable software that would run on Linux that would do the same thing?

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A couple quick Google searches reveal that there is no direct equivalent for Firefox and Chrome (or the alternatives are really difficult to find).

Apparently, winetricks is able to install IE for you - just install wine and winetricks, and then run winetricks ie8. It downloads the installer automatically, but you have to click through all the annoying dialogs.

Then, download the MathPlayer installer and run it via wine MathPlayer2.2setup.exe.

I ran all of the above while typing out this post - everything installs well, but IE8 doesn't run (I get page faults when directing it to http://www.google.com). Maybe you'll have better luck.

The only other real option is to dual-boot or run Windows in a VM (I don't really know if ReactOS will run IE8 at this point) to use MathPlayer.

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