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According to Goodman, he began using DragonDictate, a speech-recognition software program that enabled him to work on his dissertation and use e-mail without using his hands. He spent a year without picking up a pen or typing on a keyboard and says he has since greatly improved...
...group has also worked with UHS to make an information brochure titled: "Preventing Problems at the Keyboard." This was given out at the first-year orientation and to all incoming graduate students, according to Hollis...
...which Handel himself wrote five unassuming variations, drew praise even from Brahms' antipode, Wagner. Like their worthy companions, the Bach Goldberg and the Beethoven Diabelli, these pieces explore the melodic and harmonic potential of their progenitor exhaustively, and function collectively as a treatise on the composer's sense of keyboard style. But more than the Goldberg and the Diabelli, the Handel variations are witty...
...succumbing to the value of the note as opposed to the value of the music. But there's something to be said for being able to put on a record and know instantly who's playing... Horowitz, Gilels, Serkin.... There are certainly pianists who can race down the keyboard at least as fast, and with more accuracy, but Horowitz had style. Who's the Horowitz today? Kissin maybe, but I can't really go there. Maybe Brendel, the more intellectual, is our Serkin. But I like to think I'm doing something different than what's been going...
...there is one problem with using dictation instead of a keyboard, it's the effect it may have on your writing style. I tried writing a paper for a seminar with the program, only to find that my diction and phraseology when I speak is apparently nothing like my style of writing...