[jaws-uk] Re: Shorthand / Speed audio typing tutorials

It has been so many years since I was at college reading for a degree, being 
partially sighted I attempted hand written notes in the first term but they 
proved difficult to read without a subsequent re-transciption.  Later I scraped 
enough money to buy a first non mobile PC.  Then I did used to type up lecture 
notes verbatim from tapes afterwards and even managed to sell the resulting 
notes back to a course tutor and makes you popular with sighted peers as well.  
However this is both the wrong technique and also time consuming.  The 
technique you need to get is note taking rather than changing mode of input to 
braille or shorthand.  Most of your sighted peers should be doing this as 
physically they cannot go as quick as a good typeist at full speed.  The 
problem with verbatim transcipts is you will end up with reams of stuff, some 
of whichi probably will not make sense because it is speech and certainly may 
be too much to review when you need to.  If your course does have end of year, 
term or semester exams you will want concise rather than ultra detailed notes 
to review.  
I believe now some colleges and universities will do note taking classes for 
students, at the time I attended these were unheard of but I think are more  
common now.  The second thing is that as regards typeing you want accuracy 
rather than speed because if you are taking notes rather than typeing verbatim 
you will not need to go top speed.  If you concentrate on accuracy then you may 
possibly even turn off your typeing echo if you get very confident and accurate.

Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Georgina Joyce 
  To: Jaws-UK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 1:45 PM
  Subject: [jaws-uk] Shorthand / Speed audio typing tutorials 


  Hi All

  I've been typing for some years using the techniques gained at =
  Loughborough.  I'd like to build upon my speed to the level where I =
  could type a lecture verbatim.  While I can type quite fast, I can't =
  hear what is being said and type until I've heard a whole phrase.  When =
  the speaker breaks from a incomplete sentence and starts another, it =
  throws me completely.  So I'm looking for a self learning tutorial to =
  give me practice and a development of a workable technique.  Whether it =
  would be just a speed issue, or learning a shorthand system.  I wondered =
  and tried using the Braille system and have Word automatically expand =
  the abbreviations but when I try to apply Braille abbreviations, I'm =
  expecting a Braille keyboard, which throws me.

  Anyone know of such guidance that can help me as a jaws user?  Does =
  anyone have the experience of the RNIB's audio typing tutorial, if so, =
  would it help me?

  Thanks

  Gena


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