On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:08:31 -0700, Bob wrote:

On Sep 11, 6:43 pm, Dave wrote:

More utter nonsense. Only a fool would let work product that had been typed
at the rate of 80-100 words per minute go out without proofreading.

even if he
were as skilled as the best of those whose full-time job is transcription.


My mom died last last year at this time. After building Liberty ships
i WW2 and Korea she became a typest. When she retired she was able to
do 120 error free. But then again she also new shorthand. SHe really
liked the computers. It was more difficult to jam em. She routeenly
out typed the IBM Selectricts. She was just too fast for thoes IBM
balls. She said when she was working in the federal building steno
pool there were others who were a lot faster !
Gone with the buggie whips

My mom had a similar typing background, working in DC during WWII as a
typist right out of high school. Won competitions.
Later in Chicago in the '50's she was doing a typing test to get a
job at a publishing company.
When employees there heard her typing they all came to the door to get
a look at the new *electric* typewriter they figured the company had
finally bought. No electric there, but they stayed to watch her
anyway. She went on to a career as one of the few female linotype
operators in the country.
I only saw her typing at home much later when I bought a typewriter
to do college papers, and she sometimes helped me get out a paper.
Amazing to watch.
I took a touch typing course in college, only because it got an
elective out of the way, and I liked the 20:1 female/male ratio in
that classroom. I passed the course, which only required about
35 WPM, but soon reverted to 2-finger, and that's all I needed
to get through my 25 year business/computer "career."
I'm going to look at the voice software again. Last time I tested it
- about 10 years ago - I rejected it.
BTW, this post took me about 18 hours to write, but it was the
thinking that made it slow. So the voice-writing might knock it
down to maybe 9 hours.

--Vic