Disklavier

Mark,

I was thinking of the exact same thing, but before I suggested it I wanted it find out if Claude had a Mark IV Disklavier...I asked him off of the forum, and unfortunately, his response was:

"I own a DU1A since december 2004..."


I think that is an upright for which the Mark IV wasn't available.  Am I correct?

Otherwise, I really thought that DKVBrowser could be the answer. :-(

-Kevin


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Fontana <mfontana@...>
To: Yamaha Disklavier Mailing list <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2008 4:19:29 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Disklavier and blinds




On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Claude Renaud wrote:

> First I would like to know if on the two Disklavier dedicated mailing
> lists there are blinds as me and if yes, how they work with their
> instrument.. . As everything is displayed on a screen which is
> unaccessible for us, I would like to know if some of them have found
> tips and tricks to work with their piano quite satisfactorily. ..

How about using Kevin's DKVBrowser coupled with screen reading
software...?

If the result with generic screen reading software literally sounds
awkward, maybe it would be possible to add a speech assistance mode to
DKVBrowser that would more intelligently decide what text to read
(including text-to-speech of the song titles).  It looks like there is a
generic Java speech API, so cross-platform compatibility could be
maintained.

Mark Fontana