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

Hi

Good points, thank you.  In part, I'm also thinking long term.  =
Vocationally and voluntary activities.

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Gena

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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. =20
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

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  Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 1:45 PM
  Subject: [jaws-uk] Shorthand / Speed audio typing tutorials=20


  Hi All

  I've been typing for some years using the techniques gained at =3D
  Loughborough.  I'd like to build upon my speed to the level where I =
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  could type a lecture verbatim.  While I can type quite fast, I can't =
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  hear what is being said and type until I've heard a whole phrase.  =
When =3D
  the speaker breaks from a incomplete sentence and starts another, it =
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  throws me completely.  So I'm looking for a self learning tutorial to =
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  give me practice and a development of a workable technique.  Whether =
it =3D
  would be just a speed issue, or learning a shorthand system.  I =
wondered =3D
  and tried using the Braille system and have Word automatically expand =
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  the abbreviations but when I try to apply Braille abbreviations, I'm =
=3D
  expecting a Braille keyboard, which throws me.

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

  Thanks

  Gena


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