Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology, L.P., is an American company based in Philadelphia that was founded in 1992 to develop and adapt music technology for the blind. Its founder, Bill McCann, is himself a blind musician. Among the products it offers are several programs that produce a musical version of Braille by converting conventional musical notation, allowing blind musicians access to the same musical scores used by their sighted counterparts. The company also offers programs that aid blind musicians in transcribing their own compositions in Braille. Dancing Dots created the latter product to help speed the process of Braille transcription for blind composers, who might otherwise have to wait between two weeks and six months to have their compositions transcribed by one of the less than one hundred certified Braille music transcribers in the United States. Dancing Dots has developed more products to help blind musicians in the areas of MIDI and digital audio production and musician instruction.
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