[Mdpobc] Dancing Dots

[Nancy Lentz]

I used DD as a braille transcriber for a high school student in Indiana
around 2007-9. I am sighted; I was learning braille but knew nothing about
braille music. The school district ordered DD for me since my student was
an advanced vocal music student.
I was never able to successfully scan the music. It was such a mess that it
was faster for me to just enter the music manually (visually) into the
program. It was necessary to know music to be able to do that correctly,
adding everything including notes with the correct values, dynamics, lyrics
& phrasing markings. But then it translated into accurate braille music for
my student.
Maybe the program has been improved since then and it might have worked if
I had some training. The developers were great helping me over the phone,
however!



On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Lloyd Rasmussen <lras at sprynet.com> wrote:

>   Dancing Dots is a company in Pennsylvania.  Go to dancingdots.com and
> read more.  They produce the GoodFeel braille music translator (which takes
> scores in certain digital formats, and along with the Duxbury Braille
> Translator) can produce braille music to be embossed or read on a
> notetaking device.  They also produce software for creating and editing
> music on Windows PC’s running JAWS; fairly complicated but quite powerful.
> Started by a blind musician and a sighted programmer; they have developed
> quite a following.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
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>  *From:* Trudy Pickrel <tlpickrel at hotmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 17, 2013 1:18 PM
> *To:* MDPOBC <mdpobc at nfbnet.org>
> *Subject:* [Mdpobc] Dancing Dots
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>  Question of the Day.  What does everyone know about Dancing Dots and has
> anyone used it?
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> What Equipment and Programs are needed to use it?
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