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

[ruby alphonse]

Hi Kimberly, I have been using GoodFeel from some years, there is
nothing like it that I have experienced. with the Lime you can write
and and give your students whatever you like them to learn, I use this
GoodFeel program for sighted students as well as for blind students, I
find this the best among all the other programs, I mean regarding to
braille conversion and wisewersa

Ruby.

On 2/20/23, Ella Yu via Menvi-discuss <menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, how does Muse Score work? Is it fairly accessible, or are there
>> accessibility issues to work around?
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>> Kimberly
>>
>>
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