Technology

Are you looking for a free eBook reader that’s simple, accessible, yet powerful?
Sao Mai for the Blind is excited to announce the official release of the very first version of SM Readmate!

We are pleased to officially announce the release of Sao Mai Braille (SMB) version 25.5.

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

Warm greetings from Saigon, Vietnam!
First of all, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a New Year 2025, filled with happiness, health, and prosperity!

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