Comments on: In Praise of Touch Typing /business-strategies/in-praise-of-touch-typing/ The Voice of Interpreters and Translators Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:48:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Danielle Maxson /business-strategies/in-praise-of-touch-typing/#comment-1776 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:48:02 +0000 /?p=23462#comment-1776 In reply to Deborah Spector.

Thank you, Deborah! I’m sure your grandniece and -nephew will benefit from your help.

]]> By: Danielle Maxson /business-strategies/in-praise-of-touch-typing/#comment-1775 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:46:41 +0000 /?p=23462#comment-1775 In reply to Bryna O’Sullivan, Charter Oak Genealogy.

Excellent point, Bryna. I also work with handwritten documents – medical records, in my case – and although I don’t transcribe them first, the time I take decoding some of the handwriting would make dictation painful.

]]> By: Deborah Spector /business-strategies/in-praise-of-touch-typing/#comment-1774 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 02:56:25 +0000 /?p=23462#comment-1774 Excellent article, Danielle. Very throroughly researched and reported, and I got some ideas for my grandniece and -nephew who do homework on a keyboard and don’t know how to touch type. Thank you!

]]> By: Bryna O'Sullivan, Charter Oak Genealogy /business-strategies/in-praise-of-touch-typing/#comment-1773 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 22:54:38 +0000 /?p=23462#comment-1773 As a genealogical translator, I find touch typing to be a “must have” skill. Most of the documents we work with need to be transcribed before translation, and the original is often in non-standard spelling or no longer used shorthand. Dictation software simply can’t handle it.

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