Help on Musical Oriented Technological Tools for Visually Impaired students.

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Carlo Celuque
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2017/07/20 12:07:02 (permalink)

Help on Musical Oriented Technological Tools for Visually Impaired students.

Hi Cakewalk friends,
I am an university professor and will be talking on a seminar about the use of technology for helping visually/physically impaired students. I would like to know of any software that can help those students on creating music.
Is Sonar able of responding to person speaking through a microphone like we say OK GOOGLE! CALL MY FRIEND JOHNN?
Is there any third party software (ex:JAWS) that can work together with Sonar by responding or reading the screen as you move the mouse?
Is there any music to Braille tool available?
Is it possible for a blind person to create music by using the keyboard shortcuts in Sonar?
 
Any help will be very wellcomed,
 
Thank you very much.
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    Zargg
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    Re: Help on Musical Oriented Technological Tools for Visually Impaired students. 2017/07/20 12:12:49 (permalink)
    Hi. I remember reading this some time ago. Perhaps it will be of help.
    http://forum.cakewalk.com/Game-controller-surface-concept-for-the-blindVisually-impaired-m3358710.aspx
    All the best.

    Ken Nilsen
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    Zargg
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    Re: Help on Musical Oriented Technological Tools for Visually Impaired students. 2017/07/20 12:17:54 (permalink)
    http://www.dancingdots.com./main/index.htm
    Don't know if it is perhaps something like this you are looking for.

    Ken Nilsen
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    Re: Help on Musical Oriented Technological Tools for Visually Impaired students. 2017/07/20 12:27:49 (permalink)
    I have collected the information about my activity at one place: http://www.azslow.com/index.php/board,11.0.html
     
    In general, from what I know, Sonar 8.5 was the last version supported by third party tools (CakeTalking and JSonar). Starting from X, the interface was changed and these tools are unable to work. X2a+ accessibility mode tend to crash Sonar as soon as a screen reader is present. Recent CW plug-ins (f.e. Rapture Pro) and not accessible. 8.5 is still in use for the purpose. Unfortunately, Windows 8 - 10 has changed window schema and these tools have problems with that. So, Sonar 8.5 under Windows 7 is still what works.
     
    The information in the link is my personal opinion and tools, an attempt to move forward. Till now all that is "one man" only attempt.

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    www.azslow.com - Control Surface Integration Platform for SONAR, ReaCWP, AOSC and other accessibility tools
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    Carlo Celuque
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    Re: Help on Musical Oriented Technological Tools for Visually Impaired students. 2017/07/20 12:41:52 (permalink)
    Thank you very much Zargg and Azslow3,
    That a pity that CakeTalking and jSonar is not working on newest Sonar versions.
     
    I will check the links you guys posted.
     
    Thank you very much!
     
    Best Regards
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