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An international forum for blind and sighted braille music teachers to share experiences, challenges and best practices around teaching braille music, and to plan for the future

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Highlighted new features in SMB 24.11.5 include: adding a new contracted Thai Braille table for literature text, support for speaking and translating math equations into Braille in Finnish, translating Vietnamese text into Braille when written in math equations, opening and saving EPUB files, scanning and recognizing text in more than 100 languages, supporting a new format style for vocal scores with chord symbols, adding a section-by-section format style used in Italy, improving figured bass translation, setting alignment for music text elements, and many other new features and improvements.

Highlights in the SMB 24.7 release include: adding 7 new braille translation tables for text (Serbian Cyrillic, Biblical Hebrew, Yiddish, Akkadian, Syriac, Ugaritic, and Transliterated Cuneiform); speaking mathematical expressions in Swedish an

Highlights in this SMB 23.10 release include, experimental feature for translating and embossing tactile graphics, adding new Braille translation tables for literature texts (Filipino, Romanian, Thai and Tshivenda), supporting the Spanish math code (CMU), applying most rules from Vietnamese math and chemistry Braille codes; and Bug fixes.

SM Music Reader is a music reading application available on Android and iOS, made fully accessible for visually impaired users. We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.8 for Android, with some highlighted new features, including:

Highlights in this release include: keep all applied styles in print when translating into Braille, apply styles in Braille document, rewrote functions to better handle Braille text translation, add new Malay and German language Braille tables, support Vietnamese math Braille translation, speak math equations in Spanish, updated to SM Music Braille library 23.7 with many new features, improvements and fixes.