Phil, Yes, Sibelius is a good tool to use to decypher chords in a musical staff, but it is a beast to learn, as well.
And you may need to consider that somehow you need to get your sheet music imported into something like Sibelius to allow it to do the work. That would require either getting the score already available in an electronic format such as MIDI or to scan it in using OCR specifically designed to work with music. And those are still spotty at best in my experience. Also you talk about the simple notation of 3 2 x x 3 for the strings and frets to use in making a chord. That’s pretty cool, but it does not tell you which fingers are to be used for that placement, so I suppose experience and common sense will need to be considered there. How about having AI look at the chord grids themselves in music (when available) and also breaking those down into the format you suggest? Sounds like a nice project. As to Sibelius, you can test drive a version of Sibelius called Sibelius First. Actual paid versions are on a subscription plan. There is a working group of Sibelius blind users called sib-access. I thinkk they are on the groups.io <http://groups.io/> platform. Dave Carlson Farfar, Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Woodworker, and Pioneer On Mar 23, 2026, at 9:13 AM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: I have a Guitar teacher that is training an AI model to convert notation or tableture representations of guitar chords into a form that is more readable by a screen reader like VoiceOver. Chords are usually represented by a vertical stack of either notes or numbers on a musical staff. He is supplying the AI model with a photograph of the musical staff that contains these note stacks and training it to convert them into what we call, for lack of a better term, Guitar language. For example, a simple G chord from a musical staff would be converted to the form "three, two, X, X, X, three". This would be a tremendous help to the blind in learning exact cord voicings rather than just inferring them from a court symbol. I think the Guitar school uses Sebelius for writing tabletures but I'm really not sure. Is Sebelius an accessible program? Is it a beast to learn to use effectively? Finally, does anyone know of any other accessible ways to get cord voicings from the typical core diagrams that you find out there on the Internet? Sent from my IPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/A898E085-EE0E-46F2-9F2F-986EA8527F64%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/C4CD5368-3F87-4F22-8617-900A651E83CC%40gmail.com.
