Couldn't get FreeDots to work properly, but I can't remember now what exactly the problem was. It is something to investigate.
Another interesting project is Contrapunctus which has a free Braille Music Markup Language (BMML) viewer that is fully compatible with JAWS -- has a set of scripts that gets installed with the viewer. The viewer is done in wxPython and is fast and responsive. With the viewer you can hear the score played in MIDI and go through the score note by note. It's a very nice viewer.
There is a Braille music archive associated with the project, and there is also a tool for authoring BMML from more sight oriented score formats, but that tool wasn't easily available and I think you could only get it if you were going to contribute scores to the archive.
I got the impression middle of last year when I researched all of this, that it's not just a case of taking a Music XML file and throwing it at a converter to get a Braille Music XML file. Looks to me like you have to put in extra effort to get a useful Braille score.
http://contrapunctus.it/braille_music_reader On 7/31/2011 9:33 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
This is good news. I will look at it for BrailleBlaster. I'll take the core and provide a BrailleBlaster GUI using SWT. John On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:58:02AM -0400, James Lee wrote:Hi, There's a free, open source Braille music transcription program written in Java called freedots. http://delysid.org/freedots.html Music XML works great, and it's supported by over 140 music applications. The two major music scoring programs are Sibelius and Finale, and both of them supports Music XML. Sibelius could only import music XML, and it needed a plugin called Dolet to export, but not anymore. The latest Sibelius 7 just got a feature to export Music XML. Also the latest Sibelius got built-in accessibility features out of the box. It's little annoying because the new GUI is based on qt4, but I think it's pretty promising. It's far more accessible than any other application with QT4 GUI I've used. JL On 7/5/2011 2:17 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:Jim, You can get very good results by just typing music.xml in Google. recordare.com has a lot of stuff, including the specification. Google takes you right to it. John On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:00:02PM -0400, James Homme wrote:Hi John, The last time I attempted to check, Music XML wasn't completed, or whatever the term is for finalized. Do you know where to read the specification might be? I have heard that the two leading score creation programs are adopting Music XML now. Jim -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:09 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Music Transcription In answer to Jim Homme's question about music transcription, we will use music.xml or something similar. The transcription will actually be done by liblouisutdml, which is written in C so that it can be incorporated into various applications. BrailleBlaster is the application I am working on. You could say that liblouisutdml is a braille transcription engine that could be put into different types of cars. BrailleBlaster is the showcase car. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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