January 2026 - MBraille-Test

Google Drive users, show of hands
by Harri Pasanen Jan. 12, 2026

Jan. 12, 2026

Hi, If you don't user Google Drive, you can stop reading. In order for me to enable Google Drive access to you, I need the email address you use Google Drive with. There is also a restriction that one needs to sign in every 7 days to keep the Drive sync alive. Feel free to send me your google account email privately. If you email already ends with gmail.com, I assume that works and you don't need to do anything. Best regards, Harri

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Re: v0.7.0 is ready for testing
by Harri Pasanen Jan. 12, 2026

Jan. 12, 2026

Hi, It is lang ueb for UEB braille. But contractions are not involved, you manage those once in the language, hold 6 and swipe up to toggle. Alias command is still not available other than via editing alias.mb file. I have a todo item regarding it. Best regards, Harri On Monday, January 12th, 2026 at 12:19 AM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel <jprykiel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Harry and all. > The lang command now works, but I am not shure about the sintax. Lang fr switches to French, but lang ebu says ebu not supported, but does switch to English contractions. > Is any one lucky with the alias command? I can't get it to work. That's entering command mode and typing alias. Is this right? > Cheers, > JPR > > http://www.jprykiel.com > > http://soundcloud.com/ryksounet > https://www.youtube.com/c/jprykiel > Http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel > >> Le 11 janv. 2026 à 20:58, Harri Pasanen via MBraille-Test <mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com> a écrit : > >> >> Hi all, >> >> Another release has arrived. The cloud document support is still under work, but other important fixes are now live. >> >> # Version 0.7.0 >> >> * Changed Slovak Braille to use latest liblouis tables. >> * Updated liblouis tables for other languages as well. >> >> Other fixes: >> >> * Fixed some issues when announcing accented characters when backspacing before expansion. Expansion happens when you swipe for space or newline. >> * some command history handling cleanup. >> >> Command History Reminder: Hold dot 4 and swipe up or down to browse and re-execute previous commands. >> >> * Improved self voicing voice selection. >> * lang command fixed and finetuned, uses previous improvement. >> >> Example: >> >> On iOS, if your phone langue is English, MBraille will use VoiceOver for speaking by default. >> If you change your language to French with command "lang fr", MBraille will use self voicing, TTS French voice. >> By default it picks the first French voice if finds, but you can go to settings and pick a different French voice if you wish, and that choice sticks. >> >> If you switch back to English, it will revert to using VoiceOver. >> >> * Commands are now translated, at least partly. You can always use the English form, or the translated form. >> Note that if you don't have this email handy and wonder what has changed in MBraille lately, you can issue the changelog command. Swipe up with 3 fingers and type changelog, or "registro de cambios" if your phone is in Spanish, or ændringslog in Danish. :) >> >> Best regards, >> Harri >> _______________________________________________ >> MBraille-Test mailing list -- mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com >> To unsubscribe send an email to mbraille-test-leave(a)lists.mpaja.com

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Using WhatsApp in this version
by Eileen Misrahi Jan. 12, 2026

Jan. 12, 2026

Hi Harry, and all, I compose my message and then swipe three fingers up to activate the command mode. When inserting WhatsApp and the phone number, the #.3456 Did Not Pl. the correct numbers into the WhatsApp line. I also tried the number hatch sign which is.456–.1456 and again the numbers were not placed as numbers they were recorded or broiled as letters. Also, when brailing the numbers, I needed to use computer brow to insert the numbers. Eventually Eventually, I just use WhatsApp and. Sw Swipe down to open it up. WhatsApp listed the most recent chats and one is able to select one or more that they want to send a message to. The message is sent after one taps on the forward button after the message. I hope this helps others in using WhatsApp with capital MBRAILLE. Best, Ilene Sent from my iPhone

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Re: áMB-raille-Testú v0.g.j is ready for testing
by María García Garmendia Jan. 11, 2026

Jan. 11, 2026

Hi Harri, I read that ôou mpdated Liblouis tables, between them, do you have added the Portuguese Six dots computer Braille?, otherwise, could you add it?. Many thanks in advance. María :::::: mensaje original ::::: de: Harri Pasanen via MBraille-Test <mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com> fecha: 01/11/2026 09:58 p. m. para: MBraille Test <mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com> asunto: [MBraille-Test] v0.7.0 is ready for testing Hi all, Another release has arrived. The cloud document support is still under work, but other important fixes are now live. # Version 0.7.0 * Changed Slovak Braille to use latest liblouis tables. * Updated liblouis tables for other languages as well. Other fixes: * Fixed some issues when announcing accented characters when backspacing before expansion. Expansion happens when you swipe for space or newline. * some command history handling cleanup. Command History Reminder: Hold dot 4 and swipe up or down to browse and re-execute previous commands. * Improved self voicing voice selection. * lang command fixed and finetuned, uses previous improvement. Example: On iOS, if your phone langue is English, MBraille will use VoiceOver for speaking by default. If you change your language to French with command "lang fr", MBraille will use self voicing, TTS French voice. By default it picks the first French voice if finds, but you can go to settings and pick a different French voice if you wish, and that choice sticks. If you switch back to English, it will revert to using VoiceOver. * Commands are now translated, at least partly. You can always use the English form, or the translated form. Note that if you don't have this email handy and wonder what has changed in MBraille lately, you can issue the changelog command. Swipe up with 3 fingers and type changelog, or "registro de cambios" if your phone is in Spanish, or ændringslog in Danish. :) Best regards, Harri

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Mbrille in Ios
by María García Garmendia Jan. 11, 2026

Jan. 11, 2026

Hi Harri and all, but, then, if we would like to use M-braille to write a text in WhatsApp or email fird or in any app, what covd we do it?. Will you create a way to write in apps field as Braille imput just with a command or something like that?. On the other hand, I oppened the app, but it appears only Ueb table with English voice, what could I do to have the spanish table?, is there any gesture to change between different tables, and to choose some tables at favourites?. Many thanks again. María. :::::: mensaje original ::::: de: IvanNNN A via MBraille-Test <mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com> fecha: 01/10/2026 02:04 p. m. para: mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com asunto: [MBraille-Test] Wonderful program, how can I try it on android and PC? Hi, I finally got it up and running on IOS, I wonder what to do to get in PC and Android. Thanks, best regards. Enviado desde mi iPhone _______________________________________________ MBraille-Test mailing list -- mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com To unsubscribe send an email to mbraille-test-leave(a)lists.mpaja.com

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v0.7.0 is ready for testing
by Harri Pasanen Jan. 11, 2026

Jan. 11, 2026

Hi all, Another release has arrived. The cloud document support is still under work, but other important fixes are now live. # Version 0.7.0 * Changed Slovak Braille to use latest liblouis tables. * Updated liblouis tables for other languages as well. Other fixes: * Fixed some issues when announcing accented characters when backspacing before expansion. Expansion happens when you swipe for space or newline. * some command history handling cleanup. Command History Reminder: Hold dot 4 and swipe up or down to browse and re-execute previous commands. * Improved self voicing voice selection. * lang command fixed and finetuned, uses previous improvement. Example: On iOS, if your phone langue is English, MBraille will use VoiceOver for speaking by default. If you change your language to French with command "lang fr", MBraille will use self voicing, TTS French voice. By default it picks the first French voice if finds, but you can go to settings and pick a different French voice if you wish, and that choice sticks. If you switch back to English, it will revert to using VoiceOver. * Commands are now translated, at least partly. You can always use the English form, or the translated form. Note that if you don't have this email handy and wonder what has changed in MBraille lately, you can issue the changelog command. Swipe up with 3 fingers and type changelog, or "registro de cambios" if your phone is in Spanish, or ændringslog in Danish. :) Best regards, Harri

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MBraille Beta on Android
by rhonda Jan. 11, 2026

Jan. 11, 2026

Hi Harri, I am having difficulty accessing the MBraille Beta on my Pixel 8. I have installed the test app and downloaded the betas you sent out. However, I can’t find the MBraille app on my phone. Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you, Rhonda Mencey

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Wonderful program, how can I try it on android and PC?
by IvanNNN A Jan. 10, 2026

Jan. 10, 2026

Hi, I finally got it up and running on IOS, I wonder what to do to get in PC and Android. Thanks, best regards. Enviado desde mi iPhone

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Re: New Android version available
by Peter Vágner Jan. 10, 2026

Jan. 10, 2026

Hello Harri, I have took the latest beta for a spin right now and I am sure slovak braille may not be fully up to date. Here is what I am seeing and I wish to be improved for the future. While typing I can type some of the diacritic characters and punctuation symbols such as dots 16 for á (a with acute), dots 2346 for ž (z with caron), dots 236 for ( (left paren), dots 356 for ) (right paren) and more. However when using 4 finger swipe left as backspace key a different symbols are spoken. For example when deleting letter ž I am getting "exclaim" spoken. While deleting letter á I am getting "asterisk" spoken. In slovak we have just single grade. Also the issue I have mentioned previously that I am unable to type in numbers using numeric prefix 3456 this is working fine after all but I see it a little bit missleading. As soon as I type in 3456 I will get hash spoken. Then when continuing typing in I am getting a, b, c, d and similar spoken but numbers are written into the buffer correctly. Now after reading the help I can understand the workflow with numbers is somewhat expected as when pressing the space or the enter key the input is processed for contractions. However I don't yet understand why something else is being spoken when using the backspace key. I can understand that 16 for asterisk, 2346 for exclaim, 236 for number 8 are used for some braille codes but not for slovak, so I'd like to better understand this and come up with a natural workflow. As I have mentioned previously now we have introduced and standardized a way to type much more symbols by using dot 5,46 and dot 5,4 prefixes with the Braille Authority of Slovakia. For example to type in the $ (dollar sign) we can do dot 5, followed by dot 4 followed by dots 234. To type in # (hash sign) we can press dot 5, then dots 46, then dots 3456. Would there be a way to get mbraille understand these new additional braille codes for slovak please? Since liblouis 3.22 these are implemented for liblouis and since liblouis 3.36 there are some latest corrections and additions available. Also the Braille Authority of Slovakia have published papers standardizing these slovak braille code features and if doable I'd like to make MBraille capable of handling it all. I am technical contact for the liblouis related work here in slovakia, so if you think my input might be usefull toward improving MBraille as well, I'm happy to remain available for the cooperation and discussions. Huge thanks for working on it. Greetings Peter Dňa 16. 12. 2025 o 20:57 Harri Pasanen napísal(a): > Hi Petr, > > Thanks for the positive feedback. Regarding braille tables, liblouis > is used for some, but not all languages. Might be that Slovak is not > yet using liblouis. I'll check and will make a try with the Slovak > tables. > > Yes, I used AI for the first cut of the translations, but it may well > need some curation. I will provide you the translation files to look at. > > > Best regards, > Harri > > On Tuesday, 16 December 2025 at 09:37, Peter Vágner > <pvdeejay(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On my phone the app is working fine. >> I haven't tested it with talkback yet but the self voicing mode is >> working great. >> It's important to know that for me it's easier to calibrate the >> keyboard by placing each finger on the screen individually rather >> than placing all 6 fingers at once. >> Gesture system is similar to what I was used to with the previous >> version. >> Is this eventually also going to work as a system wide keyboard on >> android in the future? >> >> Can you kindly remind us how language translations of the app are >> handled now? I suspect the AI is used for generating translations. >> Will you accept translation work from volunteers the way it used to >> work in the past? >> >> Also what about braille tables? Is liblouis used internally or are >> these custom tables? >> >> With slovak braille table multi cell symbols don't appear to work for >> me. For example when pressing dots 3456 the # symbol is typed instead >> of switching into number mode. Dot 5 is also used as a prefix, dots >> 45 and dots 56 too. >> If liblouis is used internally the proper braille table for slovak is >> sk-g1.ctb. If there are custom braille tables in use similar how it >> used to work in the past, then I think I need to contribute changes >> as the braille has been formalized in slovakia since last stable >> version and there are some minor changes. >> >> Huge thanks for the updates >> >> Greetings >> >> Peter >> >> >> Dňa 15. 12. 2025 o 22:05 Harri Pasanen via MBraille-Test napísal(a): >>> Hi, >>> >>> To join Android testers, the following link should work >>> >>> https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/3d179fa6bb49f4b9 >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Harri >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MBraille-Test mailing list --mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com >>> To unsubscribe send an email tombraille-test-leave(a)lists.mpaja.com >> >

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Next release news
by Harri Pasanen Jan. 9, 2026

Jan. 9, 2026

Hi all, Thanks for the confirmation that the basics now seem to work reasonably well. Don't hesitate to drop me mail or ask in the list if you miss something or something is off. I'm not going to do a release today, not sure about tomorrow yet either. But the next release will be a bigger one, finally bringing some features that legacy MBraille does not have, like Google Drive support for documents, plus other goodies as well. Fingers crossed all goes well. Best regards, Harri

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