Two Twenty-Five

Two Twenty Five is a practice reader for court reporting and captioning students writing takes on a steno machine or in pen shorthand, climbing from 140 toward 225 words per minute. Prop the phone up at the desk and press Start. The app reads tonight's take aloud at exactly the speed you picked, holding the pace with the standard count of 1.4 syllables to a word. The text stays hidden while it reads. On screen you see only the pace bar, the elapsed time and the word count. Three legs, read the way they sound in a skills test: - Literary: one even reader, general prose. - Jury charge: one measured voice from the bench. - Q&A testimony: two different voices, attorney asking and witness answering. When the take ends, type your transcript, paste it from your CAT software, or scan the page you wrote in pen. The app lines up every word with the source and shows each dropped word, wrong word…