[Menvi-discuss] File format for braille transcription

[Daniel Gillen]

Dear Betina,

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.

Best,
Daniel

Daniel Gillen
Braille Music Specialist
The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School
www.fmdgmusicschool.org
daniel.l.gillen at gmail.com
(917) 626-7299On Dec 15, 2023 1:37 PM, betina vega via Menvi-discuss <menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:
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> Hello, 
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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? 
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> Sincerely, 
> Betina Vega 
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