The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
I don’t know if this has been posted here before, but we found these old dictation recordings on the Internet Archive website. They even give the wpm. Lots of practice material here. https://archive.org/details/audio?&and[]=dictation%20WPM
Here are two voices with different rates, and no delay between words. (Well, I put in no delay. Cepstral might have.) zz600-0050r-000d-Law-68wpm means: file name zz600 rate setting of 0050 (50% default for voice) delay of zero voice Lawrence (or Allison) 68wpm zz600 is straight text, all 600 words from assignment 54 of GSF2, used…
Thanks to nisew for typing these! As before, quality good enough for speed building, but not much better. Attachment: gsm2-L57.zip (by Cricket for group greggshorthand)
Thanks again to nisew for typing these! As before, quality good enough for speed building, where you’re familiar with the text, but not much better. Attachment: gsm2-L58.zip (by Cricket for group greggshorthand)
And the final batch. As always, let me know if there are problems. I caught one file with more than one passage, and some typos, but there are probably more. Now that I’ve had my programming and organizing fix, it’s time to get back to shorthand. Cricket Attachment: gsf2-49.zip Attachment: gsf2-50.zip Attachment: gsf2-51.zip Attachment: gsf2-52.zip…
Penultimate. Attachment: gsf2-43.zip Attachment: gsf2-44.zip Attachment: gsf2-45.zip Attachment: gsf2-46.zip Attachment: gsf2-47.zip Attachment: gsf2-48.zip (by Cricket for group greggshorthand)
Tada! Once the uploads are done, the project will be done. The site will have all the passages that have transcripts in the appendix of Gregg Simplified Functional Edition 2, copyright 1949, printed 1955. Same notes as before. I’ve combined each assignment into one zip file for this batch. The file names now have just…
And the next. Attachment: gsf2-37.zip Attachment: gsf2-38.zip Attachment: gsf2-39.zip Attachment: gsf2-40.zip Attachment: gsf2-41.zip Attachment: gsf2-42.zip (by Cricket for group greggshorthand)
And the next batch Attachment: gsf2-31.zip Attachment: gsf2-32.zip Attachment: gsf2-33.zip Attachment: gsf2-34.zip Attachment: gsf2-35.zip Attachment: gsf2-36.zip (by Cricket for group greggshorthand)
Many thanks to NewtonPhilip for typing these passages. Each zip file contains one folder per passage. Each folder contains one mp3 at each speed for the passa Passage Topic Chapter 22 189 Makers of men’s suits 190 Dear Frank 191 In June … washing machine 192 Hard to believe … play the piano 193 Enclosed…