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A web-based braille translation for digital music scores

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This paper proposes computer environment called BrailleMUSE that is a free Braille music translation server on the Internet. In experiments with expert Braille translators, translation errors occurred only at extremely slight frequency. Also, the BrailleMUSE has a mirror page to a music site showing about 4,000 digital scores. It was confirmed that the system provided Braille scores by working together with the music site. It is suggested that the system is suitable for practical use.

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2008
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ISBN:9781595939760
DOI:10.1145/1414471
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  1. assistive technologies
  2. braille music score
  3. internet
  4. machine translation.
  5. musicxml
  6. universal access

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