sound warriorHi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone :-) #electronic music :-)
Thanks for the reblogs everyone :-) if I could find someone to help me work on this, it would be a brilliant project that would benefit a lot of people :-) I have no coding experience myself, but really want to help other blind people make wicked, electronic music. :-) for more information, please reply or message me here :-)
insipidutopian (he/him)@soundwarrior20 I am interested, just don't know how much time I can commit. I wrote a c/c++ silence detector and enterprise audio recorder for speech recognition and telephony applications in the early/mid 2000s. I'm probably a little rusty nowadays as I've been on java/cloud stuff for work for some time now.
fuzzface@soundwarrior20 Hey Daveโฆ @wx1g is this something that would be up your alley?
๐ณ๏ธโ๐Superdave! ๐๐ท๐จโ๐ฆฏ@fuzzface @soundwarrior20 Learning to make #ElectronicMusic would be great fun but my old coding experience won't help.
Sam Hetchler (Kg6hxm)@soundwarrior20
Good morning! What are you thinking?
A couple years back I helped someone that was having trouble with their code. The code ran a haptic glove that pulsed out letters in braille or Morse code.
I'm here for helping make more things accessible.
privvcy@kg6hxm @soundwarrior20
Can the code be purposed to activate the buzzer on a smartphone, rather than/in addition to the haptic glove? A reliable haptic code emitter app with level control makes messaging over smartphone readable for a visually challenged person (and also for the deafblind, especially in India, who can't afford Braille add-ons)
Can the code be purposed to activate the buzzer on a smartphone, rather than/in addition to the haptic glove? A reliable haptic code emitter app with level control makes messaging over smartphone readable for a visually challenged person (and also for the deafblind, especially in India, who can't afford Braille add-ons)
@privvcy
This was designed for a device with multiple buzzers, so no.
Possible, sure.
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@privvcy
Tell me more about how the UX could work? I lean towards diy as that's where I have more experience, but concepts should cross. How couple people read a single buzzing of text as Braille?
@soundwarrior20
Tell me more about how the UX could work? I lean towards diy as that's where I have more experience, but concepts should cross. How couple people read a single buzzing of text as Braille?
@soundwarrior20
@kg6hxm @soundwarrior20 Yes, readymade screen reader converts text to audio, so this will convert text to linear buzz, dots, dashes and spaces.
Actually, Braille is not linear, so needs a special purpose haptic display device. That's a different design and construction exercise, and, a quick online search will show it is both prohibitively expensive and prone to breakdown.
R&D needed to identify whether a small multiple buzzer 'plate', with Bluetooth, still quite cheap, can be reliably sensed by touch.
@privvcy
I'm thinking of it has isolated buzzers with rubber between them, that could work....? I mean this is close to what I was thinking anyways. I was just building it into a glove. Have we come full circle?
@soundwarrior20
I'm thinking of it has isolated buzzers with rubber between them, that could work....? I mean this is close to what I was thinking anyways. I was just building it into a glove. Have we come full circle?
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@kg6hxm @soundwarrior20 Seems to me that for linear haptic code, the smartphone is enough.
But yes, to do Braille, multiple buzzers are needed, in a particular array (not randomly held in the fingers, like a glove. Though I may not have understood the design being proposed).
Claudius (legacy account)@soundwarrior20
Is C++ a hard requirement? My peer group mostly consists of developers of other languages.
Is C++ a hard requirement? My peer group mostly consists of developers of other languages.
Andrew Green@[email protected] might be able to help, especially if the target is Mac, Linux, or Android. Drop me a line at [email protected].
EbiSadeghi@soundwarrior20
What Operating System are you planning on working with? Windows? Linux with espeakup-ng?
Not an audio developer, but fluent in C++.
@EbiSadeghi macOS, maybe also using python.
Solace-10@soundwarrior20 Heya! What do you have in mind? I'm an experienced C++ programmer.
A big thank you to everybody who reblogged this, messaged me in private and replied to the thread. You were all very kind :-) if I haven't got back to you, let me know and I will get back to you. :-)
peter sibley
kittcat >^.^<๐@soundwarrior20 i'm also interested! i've been dabbling in audio processing for a while, though i haven't completed any polished audio software i'm reasonably familiar with the basics. i'd love to hear more about any ideas you may have and how i can help!
jaxter184@soundwarrior20 Hi, sorry if this is unhelpful, but I'm a Rust programmer with some experience in music programming. I'm currently making a DAW, and one goal is to make it accessible to folks with visual impairments, and I'd be interested to hear what your project is. Full transparency, I would intend to incorporate your ideas into my own project. Of course, if you think a Rust application would suit your needs, I'd be happy to help with your project as well!
@jaxter184 i'd be incredibly interested in testing your d.a.w. and helping to make it accessible. Tell me more about it. :-)
Jacob 
@soundwarrior20 I have both C++ and audio dev experience. Though I'm now mostly an Android dev, my formal education included digital signal processing including audio. I also happen to have a relative who is blind, though I'm not sure if they're into music production :)
@thederputy you might be able to help Direct message me mate :-)
decibyte@soundwarrior20 maybe @bennjordan knows someone?
@decibyte @bennjordan thanks :)
Vardhan@soundwarrior20 hi, I don't know anything of music, am not blind, but know hell lot of C++ , and having contributed to NVDA screen reader, can understand the requirements a bit ;, would be glad to help with but i don't have lot of free time .
However i wonder why existing tools like lilypond don't work for you !
However i wonder why existing tools like lilypond don't work for you !
@soundwarrior20 probably lilypond doesn't fit the bil.. .checkout https://sonic-pi.net/
David W. Jones@soundwarrior20 Hmm. Maybe check out some of the developers on the linux-audio-dev list? https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/mailing_list
I'm not on the LAD list, I'm on the linux-audio-users (LAU) list. There are some blind electronic musicians on the LAU list, and some of the developers have working with blind users on their projects. The developer of the Yoshimi software synthesizer gave it a fully-functional command line interface, for instance. Good luck! And where can we hear your music?
I'm not on the LAD list, I'm on the linux-audio-users (LAU) list. There are some blind electronic musicians on the LAU list, and some of the developers have working with blind users on their projects. The developer of the Yoshimi software synthesizer gave it a fully-functional command line interface, for instance. Good luck! And where can we hear your music?
@dancingtreefrog thank you mate :-)
DFYX@soundwarrior20 I know a musician with C++ experience who has on occasion made his own audio processing tools.
He's not on Mastodon but I forwarded the link to him. Maybe he can help you or knows somebody who can.
@dfyx hi thanks very much mate :-)
Pepi the Fox 
@soundwarrior20 tell me more?? Not that I lack projects but... One of my projects: https://www.tindie.com/products/pepijndevos/accessible-guitar-tuner/
@pepijndevos so it would use the development library found at warm place.ru with a text to speech interface added on top to make a music production package for blind people. All the musical components are there in the library so all someone has to do now is write the interface :-)
Vitor Py@soundwarrior20 @pepijndevos can you post more details? I don't know if I have bandwidth for the whole thing but I'd love to help something like this get started.
@pepijndevos @vitorpy basically SunVox Would be used for all the audio heavy lifting, The graphical interface would be non-existent or minimal because accessibility would be provided by a system of keyboard shortcuts and text to speech which would use the system voice as opposed to any particular screen reader. Using the system voice keyboard shortcuts negates having to build screen reader accessibility into the project which can be long and time-consuming.
Billy SmithIt would be worth getting in touch with the Music Hackspace:
They have worked on accessibility projects before, for Disability Arts groups in London, and have experience in working remotely on international collaborations. :D
They have contacts with a wide range of people, so may know someone with the skills that you need. :D
@BillySmith thank you for your suggestion, I will reach out to them :-)
Alphastare@soundwarrior20@soundwarrior20
Just seeing this post, are you familiar with Erica Synths? They are a modular synth maker in Latvia and they shared this set a couple years ago by a totally blind synthesist working with hardware. I had to dig for it and I haven't seen much else, but maybe it's worth reaching out to those guys for guidance and networking etc.
Apologies if this has already been shared with you. Best of luck!
https://youtu.be/7XGIF6ZQycM
Just seeing this post, are you familiar with Erica Synths? They are a modular synth maker in Latvia and they shared this set a couple years ago by a totally blind synthesist working with hardware. I had to dig for it and I haven't seen much else, but maybe it's worth reaching out to those guys for guidance and networking etc.
Apologies if this has already been shared with you. Best of luck!
https://youtu.be/7XGIF6ZQycM
Darkside // Live @ Erica Synths Garage x Burn
lunacb@soundwarrior20 I know nothing about computer audio on a technical level but id definitely submit some pull requests if I saw a repository show up!
Tengrainโฌ๏ธ
I know I have a lot of tech/musician followers, anyone able to help out @soundwarrior20 ? Sounds like an interesting project!
Berdandy@soundwarrior20 Iโm fairly busy, but this is interesting. Iโve been coding in mostly C++ for over 20 years, and back in undergrad wrote speech synth device drivers for screen readers (now in the Linux kernel). Feel free to reach out, happy to chat.
Rua@soundwarrior20 @Kirbyboot Canโt help but happy to boost.
Thommy@soundwarrior20 I might be too busy for this right now but Iโll share this with other audio devs I know
Matt Campbell@soundwarrior20 Have you found anyone to work on your project yet? Feel free to direct-message me to talk about this in more detail, or email me at [email protected]
Sammi@soundwarrior20 @chrissie_artist something for you perhaps?
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