MuVie: Braille Jazz Notation, Digital Library and Voice Interaction for Accessible Music
摘要
The Erasmus + project MuVie promotes accessibility in music education for blind students through innovative digital tools. A survey of students, teachers, librarians and musicians in Italy, Cyprus, Germany and Poland focuses on issues such as the complexity of Braille notation, the limited availability of assistive technologies and the lack of accessible digital scores. The survey also explores the need for specific tools to support the teaching of music to visually impaired students. There is also a growing interest in jazz music among blind music students. To address these needs, among other initiatives, a new method for writing jazz chords in Braille has been introduced and integrated into the Braille Music Editor 2025 software, with support for importing and exporting in the MusicXML format, improving compatibility with major music software. In parallel, the project is developing a digital archive of Braille scores and exploring solutions based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to optimise music reading, making music education more inclusive and autonomous, with a particular focus on jazz repertoire.