Focus on the speaker

Class was cancelled last night because of the snow storm. The timing couldn't have been better. It gave me a chance to practice on the newly redesigned RealTime Coach website. Have you seen it yet? It's very nahz . . . I took the "tour" of the new website and was able to find all the features that I had used previously. Other than a new look, it pretty much runs the way the old website did.

You'll be happy to hear that I learned something new last night. For the first time, I watched video clips on RTC instead of simply listening to the audio of each take. What a difference it made in my writing! My theory teacher suggested that we should focus on the speaker when transcribing, but I found that difficult when I was still in theory. But since I no longer have to stare at my keyboard while I'm writing, I can look at the speaker. Once again, my theory teacher was right ~ it really makes writing a little easier. Maybe it's the distraction of looking at the speaker. Who knows? And, frankly, I don't care. As soon as I started to focus on the speaker, I was able "disengage" my brain from my hands and let my fingers do all the work. True, I was still slow and skipping over some words to keep up, but the words that I was typing were coming a bit more naturally.

It was a good practice session.