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.
Here is Gregg Text-Kit 1 in Diamond Jubilee from 1965. It is a box set, part of Gregg’s adult continuing education series. It includes a textbook, key transcript, and even the self-check test pad. This kit also includes 6 records, which I have digitized into mp3 files with the help of Audacity. It represents a…
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
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…
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.
The good news is I’m not struggling with my target speed. I’m struggling with 10wpm faster. The bad news is the time listed in the titles for at last some of the computer-speech files is wrong. So, I strongly suggest you do a bit of math with the time of each file and the word…
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)