[bksvol-discuss] Re: BRF
- From: David Andrews <dandrews@xxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:15:54 -0600
The KANSYS, Inc. translator, released into the public domain was Turbo Braille.
It, like NFBTRANS is DOS-based, WinTrans is a Windows- front-end for
NFBTRANS. Since the NFBTRANS source code was released into the public domain
in 1992, Kurzweil converted it into a DLL that ran under Windows, and includes
it in K1000.
Duxbury, and Mega Dots are the most accurate, but will cost you around $500,
each, depending on what options and versions you get.
Dave
At 08:55 AM 12/17/2004, you wrote:
>At 02:49 PM 12/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>No idea except to say that programs such as NFBTRANS, Wintrans and K1000
>>do it automatically.
>>Whether they abide by the same rules for translating is a good follow-up
>>question which I don't have an answer for.
>
>
>Hi. Just for the record, I know that K1000, NFBTrans and Wintrans do all use
>the same rules and translation tables. I know that K1000 used to be a version
>or two behind the others but I'm not sure now.
>
>I can tell you for sure that based on my own reading of various newsletters,
>each vendor has their own rules. Duxbury, for example, uses completely
>different tables than those mentioned above. In the 1980's and 1990's, there
>was a company called Raised Dot Computing which got absorbed into Duxbury.
>They developed their own translation tables as well. Of course, APH and other
>large book producers use their own as well. Also, while I have mentioned
>NFBTrans several times, it is not the only free translator. It is the only
>free, reliable back-translator I'm aware of though. Several years ago, Kansys
>Inc. released everything as freeware, including a Braille translator. I'm
>sorry but I don't remember the name of it. I know their screen reader was
>Provox. I looked at it once but it didn't back-translate so I lost interest.
>
>
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