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A braille translator is a software program that translates a script into braille cells, and sends it to a braille embosser, which produces a hard copy in braille script of the original text. Basically only the ''script'' is transformed, not the ''language''. ==Description== For the purposes of this article, the word "inkprint" means text prepared for reading by the eye, whether actually printed, displayed on a screen, or stored in a computer. The word "braille" means text prepared for reading by the finger, whether actually brailled, displayed on an electronic braille device, or stored in a computer. Braille-translation software (or embedded hardware) converts inkprint into braille or braille into inkprint. The usual circumstance is that someone has inkprint in a word processor file or at an internet URL, and they want braille. The braille could be sent to a braille embosser to produce physical braille or be sent to an electronic braille notetaker. Another circumstance is that someone has braille in an electronic braille notetaker that they want produced in inkprint to be shared with someone who does not read braille. Braille-translation software is usually classified as Assistive Technology, since the action of the software provides braille for a blind person. Braille translators can be run by persons with or without sight. A braille translator can run on a smart phone,〔(Support for wireless braille displays in iOS 5, Apple Accessibility ) retrieved 3/29/2012〕 on a personal computer, on a network server,〔(Robobraille (server-based braille software) ) retrieved 3/29/2012〕 or (historically) on larger mini-computers or mainframes of larger institutions. Some languages use uncontracted braille, where each letter uses a specific braille character. Uncontracted braille requires manipulation of capitalization, emphasis, numbers, and punctuation. Some languages use contracted braille, where the rules for various contractions (braille abbreviations) are quite complex. For example, in contracted English braille, the inkprint word think (5 letters) is rendered in braille as 3 characters: ⠹⠔⠅(th)(in)k. The use or non-use of these braille contractions is related to word pronunciation, For example, the "th" sign is used in the word "think", but not in the word "pothole". Unless properly programmed, a computer might make a mistake that no person would make, such as using the contraction for "mother" in the word "chemotherapy". The most difficult part of producing braille is making the decision of when to use and when not to use braille contractions. When people make these decisions, it is ''braille transcription'', when computers make these decisions, it is ''braille translation''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「braille translator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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