First Lines in GSF2

The first lines of all the passages with transcripts in the students book. Chapter Assignment/Lesson Paragraph First Line Words 1    3    23    “He drove the car”     189 1    4    27    “Tom, ship Model 6 desks”     59 1    4    28    “Miss Paul, Helen Potter”     74 1    4    29    “John, Henry Stone”     40…

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Dictation Files — anyone using them?

Is anyone using the Simplified files? Will anyone but me be disappointed if the project isn’t finished? I’m tempted to restart the project with Anniversary material. It’s online, so with any luck I can use OCR to get the text files. There’s also much more learning material available. For those who want the Simplified project…

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Vocabulary of the Anniversary Manual

Dear shorthanders, Attached here is “The Vocabulary of the Gregg Shorthand Manual: Anniversary Edition.” This is actually a surprisingly useful little resource. It refers to every word used in the manual by unit and page number, so that a shorthand writer doesn’t just memorize each word he looks up in a dictionary, but learns the…

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Finding a class or teacher, or the next best thing

I’m having another go at learning Anniversary. I began by mostly reading using the two “Functional Method” books by Leslie. But I didn’t keep at it. Now as well as me doing it, I may have my assistant learn too. (I wish this stuff was still widely taught such that executive assistants came pre-trained in…

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Review of Text to Speech Systems for Dictation

This will save the next person some time, since most of the programs were unacceptable. I only spent enough time with each one to decide if it would work without being frustrating. The first test was a 100-word sample. They all have free online demos. Please add any other programs you know of. All research…

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Functional Method Teacher’s Handbook

The choice for this project was determined by the high regard in which the Functional Method is held—and by the great difficulty many have had in obtaining this essential volume. While used copies of the two main Anniversary texts are easily found, the Teacher’s Handbook is rarely available. The Handbook includes nine essays on the…

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