<div dir="ltr">Hi, this is a good question.<div><br></div><div>So we're talking about three different programs that do three different things, albeit distantly related.</div><div><br></div><div>Goodfeel/Dancing Dots Suite is a program that translates print music into braille. You can either use the included SharpEye to scan in a piece of music, correct it in LIME, and then send it to Goodfeel for braille conversion, or import a MusicXML file (which comes from conventional music notation programs like MuseScore or Sibelius) into Lime and then into Goodfeel for translation. Goodfeel does allow you to emboss music. Duxbury is a braille translator that converts print documents, such as Microsoft Word files, into printable braille, but it does not handle music. What Duxbury can do is emboss .brf files, whether the contents is a book, a math sheet or a piece of sheet music, but it is by no means a music translator. MuseScore is a notation software program, meaning that it is used for creating musical scores. It is a conventional notation program, meaning it is routinely used by sighted people and not developed specifically for the blind. MuseScore is one of the most accessible notation programs out there, and it does enable blind individuals to write scores that can be easily given to sighted people without any conversion. MuseScore recently got the ability to export braille scores in the .brf format, which can be opened in something like Duxbury and embossed. That said, the feature is still a work in progress and the output is not the most authentic, although I'd still say it's usable. Another popular braille music conversion tool is the online site Braille MUSE. You can convert musicxml files to a .brl/.brf braille file with it. Again, output is not super authentic, but definitely workable. If you want the most authentic results that most closely follows the braille music code guidelines, Goodfeel is probably best.</div><div><br></div><div>I know this was a long ramble, but I hope those facts help. There's so many pieces of software out there, and they each play a different role.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:39 PM Kimberly Morrow via Menvi-discuss <<a href="mailto:menvi-discuss@menvi.org">menvi-discuss@menvi.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7501172808663588820"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7501172808663588820WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Embossing music in Braille—programs & prices I’minterested in knowing what programs are out there that allow one to write and emboss music in Braille. I have Duxbury and JAWS, and am wondering what Good Feel or dancing Dots do that Duxbury does not in terms of transcribing music from a .brf file. Do people “here” have a preference of Good Feel versus Dancing Dots? What about the cost of each program?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Also, how does Muse Score work? Is it fairly accessible, or are there accessibility issues to work around?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks in advance!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Kimberly<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>---------<br>
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