Dec 18, 2009
Free Dictation Passages
Categories: Freebies, Resources, featured
Written By: admin
Hi everybody. Just a few days until Christmas and it is now snowing in the UK. These are some passages which have been on the site before but were taken off line during a complete site rebuild. Hopefully they’ll be useful – either for those visiting the site for the first time or for those who have tried them before (though hopefully forgotten about them)…
They’re courtesy of WaveMedia and are taken, in Mp3 format, from the CDs which are available in the shop.
50 words per minute dictation passage
60 words per minute dictation exercise
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Great Stuff – thanks. Not sure I’ve heard the 60wpm one before????
December 26th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I want to buy Monthly Magazine of Pitman’s shorthand. Please guide me.
February 18th, 2010 at 1:12 am
I havent used my shorthand for a long time and it was a great way to sharpen up my skills so I could apply for work which required it again.
March 30th, 2010 at 6:47 am
I want to buy shorthand magzines for practice for my promotion. If let me know from where can i get this magzines.
April 21st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
There is rather a dearth of “free” dictation out there but if you go to the Gregg site “Shorthand shorthand shorthand”, if you navigate down the page there are links to sites such as “Stenospeed” which give free dictation material and the gentleman who runs the site also puts some dictation on the site himself, which changes monthly.
There is a blog which is now about 5 years old called “Fancy Pants Loves Binita” which a New York court stenographer put up in her training days. There is some stuff available for download there but you’re on your own because the lady doesn’t have time to blog anymore now that she’s a fully fledged court reporter.
Like the gentleman who runs THIS site (ie shorthand world) I have gone to You Tube and googled stuff like “wpm” “steno” “shorthand”. I have also googled “mock trial” and “mock deposition” and chosen some of the shorter videos to practise from, though of course these aren’t timed and some of the videos I had difficulty hearing. I’ve also gone to “Internet Archive” and clicked on the “Audio” tab and tried to do some of the shorter pieces. This has loads of open source old radio programmes and videos. Again, you are on your own because there is loads of stuff, some of it better quality than others, so you have to sift through it and find something that suits you – and of course again it’s not expressly for shorthand so it’s not timed.
BBC World Service website have some 6 minute English lessons for speakers of other languages wanting to learn Englishbased on current affairs. They seem to me to speak at actual speed – i.e. fast, but as it’s only in 6 minute sound bites and they give you the English dialogue, you could practise the vocabulary – drill out the short forms if you are a pen writer or drill the ‘briefs’ if you are a steno-typer or palantypist [or any other type of machine shorthand user that I don't know of] and then try and take it without looking at the longhand.
Oh, and the lady who maintains the “Love of Pitman Shorthand” site has links to some readings from the Bible and some old Queen’s speeches – may not be everybody’s cup of tea but the Queen does speak clearly.
Will post again if I find anything else that might be of use.
Pat O
April 21st, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa,
The site run by the lady who links to the bible is in fact http://www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand.org.uk not “love of pitman shorthand”, though there is a site about the love of Pitman shorthand – I think it’s called “Pitman homestead” or something v. similar. Sorry about that
Pat O
April 27th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
hi
h r u
i want dictation of shorthand 100wpm
May 31st, 2010 at 3:28 pm
dear Pankaj,
I was also trying for the same. Original publications are in Delhi at the below address: Please find
PITMAN SS PUBLICATIONS 51/3, DB GUPTA ROAD, KAROL BAGH, NEW DELHI – 110 005, INDIA PHONE 011 – 25722865 …
and another is
National Shorthand School (books)
49-6-22, “Balaji Sadan”, NGGOs Colony, Akkayyapalem Post
Visakhapatnam – 530 016
Andhra Pradesh
email: nssbooks@gmail.com
PH: 0891 – 2551063
Mohan
June 3rd, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Please send me the catalog of the books which are published from your institution either monthly, weekly or annually which would help in building speed in shorthand.
June 3rd, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Hi Lalilita – we’re a website rather than a publisher or institution and as such don’t produce a catalogue. Books we recommend are hoever available via the bookshop which is affiliated with Amazon.
Kind regards,
Amazon