Items on E-Bay

I just noticed this morning that there is a copy of “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son” being offered at a reasonable price (nice little Gregg volume for those looking for some “literature”). There’s also a copy of Gregg’s “The Teaching of Shorthand”, signed by Dr. Gregg himself, and also at a reasonable…

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Computerized Dictation, new version

We’ve improved the “slow it down!” program for computerized dictation. The program is at:http://www.onebit.ca/cgi-bin/short.py This online program (source code available on request) will insert ssml codes into normal text. The resulting text file is then fed into a free text-to-speech program, and the resulting sound file can be saved to disk. We’ve added extra time…

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Functional Anni manual question

I hate to make a whole thread just for this, but I can’t for the life of me figure out a sentence. On page 467 of the second book, section 391., the first part of the first sentence makes no sense to me: The leader f-tm-b (for the time being?) who have e-m-a-b (he maybe?)…

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Four-voice steno pads?

I seem to recall reading on this site somewhere that there was still one company around that produces steno pads for four-voice proceedings, with extra lines down the left-hand side of each column. Can anyone share the link, and put it up in the Links section if possible? Thanks 🙂 (by niftyboy1 for everyone)  

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Legal Anniversary?

Hi all. I’ve been foraying into the world of court-reporting with Anniversary Gregg and my stenotype machine at a local legal college. It struck me that though I have a miniature library of shorthand books, none of them are tailored to legal work. I found a pdf of sample testimonies and depositions on this site,…

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medical Gregg???

Hello, I’m interested in learning shorthand and have looked for information about it several times but just recently decided to give it a go. I’m a medical resident and often find myself wanting to take detailed notes, especially at didactic style conferences so I can review them later. I was going to make up my…

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Alphabet Shorthand in 15 Days

Has anyone ever heard of Alphabet Shorthand in 15 Days, and how easy it was to learn? I was thinking about checking it out from one of the 20 libraries in our new library network. Thanks! (by slowshorthandlearner for everyone)

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