Independently create print music scores with Lime Aloud, the newest software product from Dancing Dots.

“It was the best feeling in the world to hear my teacher take a piece of music I had written, and sight-read it at the piano. There wasn't a choir singing, but I got shivers down my spine anyway, just knowing that now my music isn't just mine, I have the capability of sharing it with the whole world if I want.”

Lime Aloud marries access technology with the tried and true Lime notation editor software. For decades, musicians all over the world have prepared high quality editions of their musical ideas with Lime. Now blind music students, composers and arrangers can too!

Lime Aloud works together with the JAWS for Windows screen reader software. When you order Lime Aloud, you also receive two mainstream software titles: the Lime notation editor and the SharpEye Music Reader for music OCR. You can create and print editions of your own musical ideas or use Lime and Lime Aloud to study pieces from others. New material can be created using the Lime editor, imported from NIFF files made with SharpEye or via Lime's MusicXML import function. MusicXML files can now be exported from a growing number of music notation programs including Finale and Sibelius.

Reading Lime Notation Files with Lime Aloud?

Creating and Printing Lime Notation Files with Lime Aloud?

Audio Presentation of Lime Aloud Available for Download

Listen to an MP3 audio presentation of Lime Aloud
produced by Bill McCann of Dancing Dots, June, 2007. Listen as a blind musician briefly demonstrates how to review musical scores and how to create new ones using Lime with Lime Aloud.

Important Note to Braille Music Lovers!

If you want to have all of the features of Lime Aloud plus automatic braille music transcription and real-time braille display support for Lime, check out the latest version of the GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator software from Dancing Dots.

Lime Aloud System Requirements

In general, the minimum system requirements for Lime Aloud are the minimum requirements for your operating system and JAWS. More memory and a faster system processor will improve performance. To use Lime Aloud you need the following:

• IBM PC-compatible computer with a processor speed of at least 500 MHz
• JAWS for Windows Standard or Professional, version 5.10 or later
• At least 128 MB of memory
• 6 MB of hard disk space for Lime Aloud's program files. More hard drive space will be needed for the music files that you create; however, Lime files are typically less than 100 MB each.
• MIDI playback device