Author: Michael Curran
Latest version: 0.1
Audiobraill editor is a text editor written with WX Widgets and the audiobraille library, that allows the user to edit braille files by sound. When navigating around with the cursor, audiobraille editor plays the current cell you are on, or when moving up and down lines, plays the entire line; it is rather like navigating with a screen reader, only you are hearing braille cells, rather than spoken word.
The audiobraille library strives to produce each braille cell so the sound represents the tactile cell as close as possible. The vertical axis is represented by pitch, and the horizontal axis is represented by the left and right of the stereo spectrum.
No real installation yet, for now abeditor.exe can be run from the bin directory.
If you use the Jaws for Windows screen reader, you will need to also install the jaws scripts for audiobraille editor so jaws will only read when the playing of cells is disabled. It also makes sure that jaws properly passes key stroaks through to audiobraille editor, rather than sending what it thinks is a good way to move a cursor.
You will need to firstly install the audiobraille library, which can be found on the audiobraille library page
You will also need to install WXWidgets from www.wxwidgets.org
Then do:
./configure
make
make install
If all went well you should have audiobraille editor installed.
If you are compiling on cygwin to make native windows binaries, you can use make_win32_bin.sh in the tools directory to make a nice zip archive with all binaries and needed libraries. Also, make sure you have configured wxWidgets when installing to build independent of cygwin, as mingw32. You will also need to make sure wx installs static libraries so that they are statically linked with the binary so you don't need to keep track of what wx dlls you need to include with a windows binary distribution of audiobraille editor.
you can use audiobraille editor like you would any generic text editor, such as notepad etc.
The main difference is the cell menu, which lets you configure how audiobraille produces the sounds.
In the cell menu you can enable or disable cell audio completely, you can also configure cell speed, base frequency, frequency multiplyer, wave type, whether or not to use eight dot braille, whether or not to use the stereo expand effect.
All settings are saved, so when you run it again later it should stay how you last configured it.
This program is covered by the GNU General Public Licence. For further details please look at the file COPYING in this directory.
Please note this is still very much in its developmental stages. I would suggest making backups of any files you open with it would be a very good idea.
Audiobraille editor is Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Curran and covered by the GNU General Public License
Please send bugs and suggestions to: Michael Curran <mick@kulgan.net>
Copyright © 2006 Michael Curran