<div dir="ltr">Hey Daniel, I really like your answer. I do want to quickly point out something about MuseScore. Yes, MuseScore now has the ability to export directly in braille, but I do not recommend using that feature, as it is very primitive, and it only really exports notes and a small number of other things and leaves out lots of important information. This means that specialized music braille translators, such as GoodFeel, are still necessary. As you pointed out, you can easily take a MusicXML that came out of MuseScore (insert any notation program like Finale, Sibelius or Dorico), import it into Lime, and run it through GoodFeel.<div><br></div><div>Those of us who can't justify spending money on GoodFeel, myself included, use free alternatives, and we also tend to use MuseScore in order to avoid paying for the other notation packages. For a long time, the online MusicXML to braille translation site BrailleMUSE was the way to go, as it provided decent (but not great) output at no cost. Recently, a new option called Sao Mai Braille has become available, so I have switched to that from BrailleMUSE because the braille music output it produces is of rather high quality. FWIW, Sao Mai Braille has many other uses outside braille music too.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:11 AM Daniel Gillen 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">Dear Betina,<br>
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It sort of depends on who's transcribing the music. As someone who's blind and has been transcribing and proofreading braille music for several years, I've been working mainly with Lime and Goodfeel. Usually one of my sighted colleagues at work exports MusicXML files into Lime, then I take over with the Goodfeel braille processing part. With something like MuseScore, MusicXML files can be more directly converted into braille, but there will also be a need for someone to proofread and edit the output. Now for any of the sighted transcribers out there who work from the ground up, I imagine they would start out with an image of the score as a PDF, TIFF, or similar format. I would say that having a MusicXML file is most helpful for those using the more automated transcription options, whereas image-based formats are equivalent to reading a physical hard copy of the score and are more suitable for sighted transcribers producing braille from scratch.<br>
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Best,<br>
Daniel<br>
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Daniel Gillen<br>
Braille Music Specialist<br>
The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School<br>
<a href="http://www.fmdgmusicschool.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.fmdgmusicschool.org</a><br>
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(917) 626-7299On Dec 15, 2023 1:37 PM, betina vega via Menvi-discuss <<a href="mailto:menvi-discuss@menvi.org" target="_blank">menvi-discuss@menvi.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I have a question. If I want to get a few pages of a book transcribed, does it have to be converted to music XML before I can send it to a transcriber? <br>
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> Sincerely, <br>
> Betina Vega <br>
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