User needs in France

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User needs in France

• Nadine Baptiste-Jessel

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For Blind musicians

• UGAMPA (Union for Blind musicians professionnal
  and not professionnal)
• Several blind musicians,
• Music teachers
• Professional musicians
• Blind composers

3
For transcription services

• AVH Paris, Nice
• CTMBI (Transcription Center of Braille Music)
• IPHV (public institute for visual handicaped
  persons)
• INJA (National institute for the Blind)
• Data base for adapted edition BDEA

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Software used 1

• ETEXTC (dos program)
• Text editor with a bip sound when the end of line
  comming
• EDGAR
• Text editor
• PCP2 (.pcb) ou winBraille (.wbr)

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Software used 2 Transcription steps

• Smartscore or Finale
• Braille plugin for Finale
• BME
• A long and a lot of mistakes during the process

6
CTEB experimentation 1

• Transcription of an orchestral score
• Le concerto en sol de Ravel
• The editor (Durand)
• Gives the authorization to transcribe
• No digital score
• Finale to input the score (more fast than to
  scan)
• Braille plug in

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CTEB experimentation 2

• BME
• Informations missing
• Midi parameters are not persistant
• Difficulties
• to extract a part
• to add a part
• to present the information

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User Needs for Blind musicians

• A complete catalog online
• Perfect and complete printed Braille scores
• Specific printed Braille score with
• several possible layout like
• Extract and print a single part
• Print from a measure to another
• Bar by bar or Fragment by Fragment ...
• An editor like BME

9
User needs for transcription centers

• A specific sofware able to edit and print
  Braille score in using perkings keyboard
• A software able to convert quicly and
  automaticaly a digital score into Braille

10
User needs for Blind teacher

• A software able to convert quicly and
  automaticaly a digital score into Braille and
  reversly
• Produce normal score for sighted students