LaTeX Conversion into Normalized Forms and Speech Eitan M. Gurari Ohio State University LaTeX is an authoring language designed for producing documents through native TeX compilers. During the years different applications have been developed to accept LaTeX inputs through engines programmed from scratch. Those engines are restricted in power to subsets of LaTeX features. The first part the presentation will demonstrate how TeX4ht can be used to translate general LaTeX constructs into restricted dialects of LaTeX recognizable by such engines. The jsMath dialect for LaTeX rendering through JavScript (http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsmath/) will be employed for a target. T. V. Raman introduced in 1994 his AsTeR program for automatically rendering technical documents into audio. His pioneering work assumed a LaTeX subset for an input. Current recommendations for speech browsers address XML documents abiding to the SSML and CSS specifications (http://www.w3c.org). The second part of the presentation will exhibit TeX4ht translations of LaTeX into speech through XML-based documents. -------------------- This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. IIS-0312487. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.