Dancing Dots Introduces GOODFEEL 3.0 Braille Music Translator
Published: Jun 24, 2007
Dancing Dots’ continues to break new ground in the automatic transcription of music into Braille. The recently released version 3.0 of GOODFEEL offers synchronized scrolling of Braille and print musical notation.
This new version is also helpful for sighted teachers as it provides insights into music Braille. Since the print and the Braille notation scroll in sync, the student with visual disability can easily ask a question to the sighted teacher about specific musical symbols and the teacher can immediately identify the note or measure in question. The Braille reader hears a verbal description and a musical tone for each Braille note displayed in the context of the current measure.
Visually impaired musicians can now use the Lime notation editor which ships with GOODFEEL to create printed scores of their own musical ideas via the new JAWS-based Lime Aloud access method. Bill McCann, founder and president of Dancing Dots, states, “The multi-sensory experience of speech output, Braille and musical cues reinforces learning.” Lime Aloud permits musicians to listen to a single part, all notes in the current staff or all notes in all parts at any particular point in the score which is a great aid to harmonic analysis.
Version 3 quickly imports and transcribes pieces created in Finale, Sibelius and other popular music notation software used by band, orchestra and choir directors so that visually impaired students will have their Braille music materials on time for rehearsal. GOODFEEL now offers an optional integration with the Duxbury (literary) Braille Translator to facilitate transcription of theory or method books that have large blocks of expository text.
Source: Dancing Dots
