[ddots-l] International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and Braille

"William R. McCann" <BillList1@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:18:24 -0500

Over the past few years we have occasionally received an inquiry from
braille-reading singers about how to read scores that show the lyrics in the
International Phonetic Alphabet.  I am forwarding a recent exchange from the
Duxbury user list that may be of interest to some of you.  Until there is
some kind of standard, we will not consider a method for modifying GOODFEEL
to show this kind of text but I am very glad to hear that some standard may
be emerging.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Warren Figueiredo
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 1:23 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: International Phonetic Alphabet

Here is a snip from the International Council on English Braille website
detailing further developments in the quest for a revised Braille
International Phonetics Alphabet Code.
The website mentioned below also includes ways in which current versions of
Jaws can speak the IPA characters.

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UEB Linguistics Committee

This committee is charged with making decisions about the brailling of
foreign words in an English context, and how to handle diacritics, phonetics
and phonemics. 

Listserv: http://www.nbp.org/mailman/listinfo/ueblinguistics

One of the Linguistics Committee members has also set up a site providing
details of a proposal that he has prepared in conjunction with other
Committee members. This is a working proposal and has not yet been approved
by the Committee. It may be found at
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/BrlIPA.html.
-------------------------------------

Warren 

-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Oleg Shevkun
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:54 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: International Phonetic Alphabet

Hello all,

I don't know how official this is, but you may wish to take a look at:

http://clauchau.free.fr/L/phonalph.html

Unfortunately, while this site does list the symbols of the International
Phonetic Alphabet in Braille, I am not sure whether it is suitable for
building a Braille table. The problem is, that the respective print symbols
appear as graphics, rather than true Unicode characters. However, this is
still a useful resource.

Oleg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Comden" <danc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:41 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: International Phonetic Alphabet

We struggled with this a couple of years ago for a student at the
University of Washington who took a linguistics course. Never did come
up with a good solution for Braille. He ended up working closely with the
instructor in order to pass the class.

Somewhere we found research that indicated work had been started on a
Braille IPA code, but we couldn't find any information that it had been
completed.

-*- Dan Comden                   danc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
     Access Technology Lab        http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/
     University of Washington

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Carrie Green wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> Thank you for responding, I hope that I will hear from someone regarding
> this soon. I've been looking for a way to handle IPA for a long time, and 
> so
> far have not been very lucky.
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