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

Tristrum,

When I was taking lecture notes I used a Braille n Speak for note taking and 
then sent a text file to my PC.  I found this very efficient and got far 
more down that sighted people.

Norman.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:27 AM
Subject: [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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