TV for Shorthand Practice

[dragontamer]

Thank you for making this website. I am still a very long way before I can use this "diction" page... but I might as well do what I can to contribute to this community! The White House has a Youtube channel. Regardless of your political background, its probably a good idea to keep up with the President anyway. :-) So, here's a link:

www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse

Mr. Obama has been giving weekly addresses. The White House gives both videos and transcripts, making it easy to calculate the word counts.

In this video, Mr. Obama talks at approximately 170 wpm. (Without the lead-in, there is only 3 minutes)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=obv9p1aKWXA
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/01/weekly-address-its-time-congress-help-middle-class

It is as simple as copying all of the words in the transcript, pasting it into a word counting web page (such as www.wordcounter.net/ ), and then dividing by the number of minutes.

Mr. Obama spent 3 minutes (3:15 total, but 10 seconds on a lead-in and 5 seconds on the outro) to say 508 words.  Pretty simple, eh?

If you're Republican and allergic to Mr. Obama, I'm sure there's other resources out there. But its nice to have both a transcript already made for every speech, and an easy-to-access youtube video.

[Deb]

Thank you for that suggestion! I didn't know that there was a weekly youtube video of the President of the US.

FYI, your speed may be a bit off. In Shorthand word count is done by Syllables. However, it doesn't matter as people don't talk by syllables and now days taking down shorthand is different. If someone can write 170 wpm, it would be good to test that out. Maybe it's close or even 100% correct. I never got up that high. I got up to 120 wpm, but that was with Diamond Jubilee which top speed was about 170 wpm. I haven't tried with the Anniversary edition too much, but 100-120 is all I could do.

[Deb]

I posted this in Shorthand in the Summer, but this can work at anytime.

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Rewatching a TV show that you've saw in the winter? Take it down in shorthand. Sometimes you can find the "script" online and check your notes.

Read more: greggshorthand.proboards.com/thread/1365/shorthand-summer#ixzz4CLG8GXHA

Repeated TV shows, such as streaming or DVD's you watch over and over.

[Deb]

Newscasts

These make great practice. Most news casters are proficient in using their voice (although not all).

[Deb]

How about debate programs?

Or your favorite TV programs?

[Deb]

Politicians giving speeches on TV. Usually they have learned to speak very well and fluently. Plus you may be able to find a transcript of these somewhere (online papers?) to check your transcription.

[Deb]

Debates on the news channels that have those. Sometimes they may get a little fast, but it might be nice to do.

[Deb]

COURT TV

or Shows with court proceedings.

any one try this?
might be interesting.

Or those judge tv shows.

[Deb]

These TV shows can help you get familiar with different types of voices. Male. Female. Young. Old. Fast. Slow. Etc.

If you have access to different accents, that would also help.

[Deb]

Even though TV shows can exaggerate and use things that are "fictional", you might find it helpful to take notes from TV shows or Movies that are in line with your career or other reasons you're learning shorthand.