[Menvi-discuss] Screen Readers for "Brf" Music Files

[Jeanie Willis]

Hi Bill,

 

Just to be clear though as the question did specify brf files.  Am I correct
that neither Lime nor GoodFeel can open a brf.  You either have to scan the
music into sharp Eye, or open an existing midi or xml files, or enter the
notes yourself into Lime.

 

I do think midi files may be an under used resource.  I haven't done it
recently.  But back when digital sheet music wasn't readily available for
print music I regularly found midi files on the net and extracted the parts
I wanted.  I had a whole set of instructions on how to do this and tidy it
into good clean music.  The links would be out of date but the process
largely unchanged if anyone wants me to dig it out.

 

Jeanie

 

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Dancing Dots' Lime Aloud scripts do deliver what we call a Talking braille
score feature to users of the Lime music notation editor who have a license
for our scripts.  The scripts verbalize descriptions of the current note
while showing the equivalent braille music on your braille display and the
print equivalent on the video display.

 

Software that would verbally describe braille music characters would need to
perform some fairly complex analysis of the braille score in order to
convert it to a meaningful verbal description.  It would need to understand
the order of signs and the syntax of braille music.  Certainly possible but
not a trivial task.

 

 

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Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Screen Readers for "Brf" Music Files

 

On behalf of friends who are not MENVI members, I am wondering whether
anyone uses NVDA or another screen reader to decipher "brf" files of braille
music scores.  Any information about such experiences would be most welcome.
Thank you!

 
Karen Gearreald

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