Hi. I recently had a chance to play with Optical Music Recognition software under Windows. There are various products that can scan a page of music and export in MusicXML format. So the hard part (the actual OMR) can be done by the application of choice of the user (there is even a free software OMR program written in Java).
Currently, as I see it, there is only one software product to convert notation data to braille music, namely goodfeel from dancing dots. This is windows only software. I just looked at the MusicXML format that these OMR programs export, and it doesn't actually feel too hard to extract meaningful data from that. Notes are already nicely groups by measures, which is what we need for braille music. I am now contemplating to write some little framework for working with musicxml data especially geared towards blind users. If anyone is interested in this topic, please contact me of list. I am trying to figure out if we can create a small team of people working on this. At this stage, people interested in contributing code and design ideas are most needed. Braille music is very complicated, so people with actual experience reading complicated pieces in braille music are also very appreciated. -- CYa, Mario _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
