[NFBCS] Sonification of graphs

[Ed Barnes]

Hi Tracey.

A programmer I am not and to be honest I have no current use for the
technology of which you are speaking, however; given the way that nvda uses
beeps to sonify the progress bars on screen as you install software and the
like, I wonder if that technology nvda employs or that particular method of
technical leverage can be used to sonify the graphs as you suggest below?

Just a thought!

 

 

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Subject: [NFBCS] Sonification of graphs

 

I heard a piece on Marketplace on NPR last night that played a graph
sonification.  Where a print graph line would go up and down, the sound went
up and down a piano keyboard.  It was so great.  I understood immediately
what it was showing, even without the presenter's detailed explanation.

I sure wish there were more sonified graphs out there, or there was a bit of
software I could run that would grab a print graph and sonify it.  I expect
it wouldn't work for all graphs, but even some would be helpful.

Tracy

 

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