[Menvi-discuss] Dancing Dots, Good Feel, and Muse Score

[Ella Yu]

Hi, this is a good question.

So we're talking about three different programs that do three different
things, albeit distantly related.

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.

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.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:39 PM Kimberly Morrow via Menvi-discuss <
menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:

> 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?
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> Also, how does Muse Score work? Is it fairly accessible, or are there
> accessibility issues to work around?
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> Many thanks in advance!
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> Kimberly
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