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.
This is another effort for the “shorthand preservation society”: I spent last week converting shorthand records to mp3 format, so that I could play them easily on my Kindle via Evernote. I used Audacity to clean them up and remove most of the static. I thought others might find these useful, too. The first set…
The document below from the National Court Reporters Association explains the method that I described to calculate dictation speed. Thanks to Monica for bringing this to my attention! Attachment: How to Calculate Dictation at Any Speed.pdf
I’ve begun recording dictation mp3 files for Gregg Notehand (you can listen to the first two files for Unit 2 at this link). Notehand doesn’t concern itself with training for speed per se, yet I would like to know how to calculate my recording speed and supply that information if at all possible. For instance,…
The Gregg School in Chicago (founded by Dr. Gregg) used to offer summer courses for teachers of shorthand and typing. The classes were taught by experts, such as Louis Leslie and Clyde Blanchard. This article that appeared in the May 1942 issue of the Gregg Newsletter was written by a teacher who details her experience…
Hi, all. Although I try to practice everyday, I can only get in about 30-45 minutes; thus, my speed is still around 50 wpm. It really encourages and motivates me when I watch videos of people taking dictation! I think I’ve watched all that I can find on YouTube… Would you guys be willing to…
Lokkesh Bagani recently posted in the “Shorthand writing” group at Facebook that there are quite a few practice dictations available at archive.org if you use the search string steno AND subject:”court reporting”. The speeds range from 100 to 200 wpm.
Here they are: Gregg Simplified Functional 2nd Edition https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0Bzl8w6VxVz_Eem0ySXMxaDB5VDg/edit I’m not sure if they’ll stay there. I can’t see how much disk space they use. Everyone should be able to see them.
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)