[NFBCS] Sonification of graphs

[Vincent Martin]

I am a seven-year member and graduate of the sonification lab at
Georgia Tech.  The sonification sandbox has basically been imported
into a phenomenal program called the SAS Graphics Accelerator and it
is free to download.  I actually use it myself.  Wanda, the totally
blind Physicist uses sonification to sonify the graphs from radio
telescopes.  I have been using it to sonify datasets of the spread of
the covaid-19 virus as well.  It does not take a long time to use and
it is extremely powerful.  You can use any .csv file with it and you
can examine the output in a continuous or non-contiguous manner.
Vincent Martin, Ph.D. CPACC, CPACC
			



On 4/1/20, Beth Hatch via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Tracy and all,
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> I've been looking into using sonification for data for some projects at
> work. I found several Nasa projects using audio sonification, one by a
> blind
> Radio astronomer  who is blind who studies solar winds, and another on
> exoplanets.
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> Second, Georgia Tech has a Sonification Lab which does all kinds of
> sonification and audio research for graphs, games, and a bunch of other
> stuff. If you search on Georgia Tech Sonification Lab, it should come up
> for
> you. They have a free program called Sonification Sandbox. It's a Java
> program that is accessible though I should note I've only done a small bit
> of testing of it. You can either put in an X and Y axes numbers, or import
> an Excel CSV file with your graphical information. There's documentation on
> how to do this.
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> I'm not a programmer, but there's probably a way to sonify data just as we
> would for data visualization techniques.
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> Lastly, I believe there's a sonification add-on for NVDA in the NVDA
> add-ons
> manager called Audio Charts. I installed it but I haven't tried it yet.
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> Respectfully,
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>
>
> Beth
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> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Ed Barnes via NFBCS
> Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:11 AM
> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Ed Barnes <edbarnes7 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Sonification of graphs
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> 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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> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> >
> On
> Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via NFBCS
> Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:34 AM
> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> <mailto:nfbcs at nfbnet.org> >
> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net <mailto:carcione at access.net> >
> Subject: [NFBCS] Sonification of graphs
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> 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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