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What a LaTeX file exported to html sounds like to a screen reader

hand drawn math formula

This is the original image of a handwritten math formula that was dragged into ChatGPT 4o with the query:

“I’m going to give you another image to interpret. Please switch this out to html if you can.”

It gave me the html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<meta charset=”UTF-8″>
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0″>
<title>Quantum Equation</title>
<script type=”text/javascript” async
src=”https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=es6″>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” async
src=”https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js”>
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Quantum Mechanics Equation</h2>

<p>
\[
\dot{C}_m(t) = -\frac{i}{\hbar} \sum_n C_n(t) e^{i \omega_{mn} t} \langle \psi_m | H_1 | \psi_n \rangle
\]
</p>

</body>
</html>

and when this is opened in a browser, it looks like this:

screen shot of the html code

and SOUNDS like this in the screen reader:

Here is the transcript produced by notebooklm from the audio file:

“over C subscript M left parenthesis T right parenthesis equals minus fraction start I over H with stroke end of fraction and area summation with N underneath C subscript N left parenthesis T right parenthesis E superscript I subscript MN T mathematical left angle bracket subscript M vertical line H subscript one vertical line subscript N mathematical right angle bracket”