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Some inherited barriers which limits the human abilities can be surprisingly win through technology. This research focuses on defining a more reliable and a controllable interface for visually impaired people to read and study eastern music notations which are widely available in printed format. One of another concept behind was that differently-abled people should be assisted in a way which they can proceed interested tasks in an independent way. The research provide means to continue on researching the validity of using a controllable auditory interface instead using Braille music scripts converted with the help of 3rd parties. The research further summarizes the requirements aroused by the relevant users, design considerations, evaluation results on user feedbacks of proposed interface.
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Dawpadee Kiriella is currently a fourth year Information and Communication Technology undergraduate at University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka. Her research interests include Image Processing, Human Computer Interaction, Character Recognition, Data Mining, Database Technology, Bio- Informatics, Information Retrieval, Multimedia Computing and Audio Signal Processing.
Shyama Kumari is currently a fourth year Information and Communication Technology undergraduate at University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka. Her research interests include Image Processing, Audio signal processing, HCI, Multimedia Computing, Character recognition.
Kavindu Ranasinghe is currently a fourth year Information and Communication Technology undergraduate at University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka. His research interests include Image Processing, Audio Signal Processing, Character Recognition, Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia Computing and Music Information Retrieval.
Dr Lakshman Jayaratne - (Ph.D. (UWS), B.Sc.(SL), MACS, MCS(SL), MIEEE) obtained his B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1992. He obtained his PhD degree in Information Technology in 2006 from the University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia. He is working as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), University of Colombo. He has wide experience in actively engaging in IT consultancies for public and private sector organizations in Sri Lanka. His research interest includes Multimedia Information Management, Multimedia Databases, Intelligent Human- Web Interaction, Web Information Management and Retrieval, and Web Search Optimization. Also his research interest include Audio Music Monitoring for Radio Broadcasting.
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Kiriella, D., Kumari, S., Ranasinghe, K. et al. Music Training Interface for Visually Impaired through a Novel Approach to Optical Music Recognition. GSTF J Comput 3, 45 (2014). https://doi.org/10.7603/s40601-013-0045-6
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