Re: Scores for the visually impaired

[Colin Campbell]

On 12/03/2013 09:09 AM, Frederick Bartlett wrote:

Now that I'm *cough, cough* an expert LilyPond user, I want to explore something really difficult.

My wife, a voice teacher, suffers from macular degeneration. Before her vision degrades so much that she can no longer read printed scores, I'd like to cobble together a system that

• scans piano-vocal sheet music
• creates a LilyPond file
• controls a digital piano with LilyPond's midi output
• displays the score in sync on a tablet at arbitrary magnification
• controls tempi and dynamics by gestures and taps (and/or voice commands)
  
• (bonus round) 'listens' to the singer and adjusts tempi and dynamics to match
  

Judging by the success of Frescobaldi, most of this would seem to be feasible. And I have five years or so to figure all this out ...

Has anyone on this list ever used Audiveris or OpenOMR?

How about creating non-paged graphical output from LilyPond?

Thanks for reading!

Fred

Hello Fred,

I have a friend with macular degeneration, to the degree he literally holds his music touching his nose. I've created a template for use with LilyPond and Frescobaldi, which gives 2-3 bars per landscape letter sized page. I've adjusted things like slur line thickness, made fonts bold and so forth. You might open the file in Frescobaldi and "Save As a template".  Hope it's useful!

Cheers,
Colin

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