StereoMath (2024) cites Raman's Emacspeak — never AsTeR — and only as generic sonification prior art, not for the pitch mapping
A full read of StereoMath's text and all 39 references (arXiv 2501.01404) finds exactly one citation of T. V. Raman's work, in the Related Work section: "work in other domains has successfully overcome similar challenges, by using sonification [9, 18] (e.g., in SAS Graphics Accelerator [6] and EmacsSpeak [29])." Reference [29] resolves to Raman's 1996 CHI paper, "Emacspeak—a speech interface" — a general-purpose audio-desktop and speech interface for Emacs, not AsTeR, Raman's earlier, math-specific pitched-audio reading system. The citation sits inside a single clause listing sonification as one successful strategy from "other domains" generally; it is not invoked near, or connected to, any discussion of pitch or vertical position.
The string "AsTeR" does not occur anywhere in StereoMath's paper. Raman is named exactly once, as author of the Emacspeak reference — the two projects are distinct, and StereoMath's citation practice does not reach back to the one that actually originated the pitch-for-vertical mechanism it uses (claim-stereomath-2024-maps-equation-position-to-stereo-pitch-and-earcons). This resolves the citation half of observation-math-sonification-pitch-for-vertical-recurred-1994-2024's open question, tracked at question-does-stereomath-2024-cite-aster-emacspeak-pitch-mapping-prior-art.
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“Luckily, work in other domains has successfully overcome similar challenges, by using sonification [9, 18] (e.g., in SAS Graphics Accelerator [6] and EmacsSpeak [29])”
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