TeX to Speech plugin

Contains a Flutter plugin for converting LaTeX to speakable text that can be read aloud by a text-to-speech engine.

Using in Flutter project

Add the following dependency to your pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  tex_to_speech:
    git:
      url: git@github.com:simpleclub/tex_to_speech_flutter
      ref: 0.0.3
      path: tex_to_speech

Dependencies

The plugin depends on flutter_rust_bridge project to create a bindings and glue code between Rust implementation and Dart APIs.

Rust crates used

• MathCAT - a library for producing speech text from MathML. It can also have other features (Braille support, text-to-speech) which are not used.
• pulldown_latex - a library for converting LaTeX to MathML. It may limit the number of TeX commands that can be correctly converted. See Unsupported Plain-TeX & LaTeX behavior for details.

Requirements

• Flutter SDK version 3.x or higher
• Rust toolchain installed
• flutter_rust_bridge_codegen [https://cjycode.com/flutter_rust_bridge/quickstart]

Build process

flutter_rust_bridge_codegen generate

Web

flutter_rust_bridge_codegen build-web --release -o ..

Troubleshooting

• If you encounter issue with loading the WASM file try running cargo update in tex_to_speech/rust project directory.
• Check SETUP_NOTES.md for informations about steps to setup the project.

Update process

Follow steps in the flutter_rust_bridge_codegen documentation to update the source code. After that you can run generate_update.sh to prepare the update. Updated sources (and binaries) should be pushed to the repository.