Teeline dictation library

Choose your speed. Start the dictation.

Listen on Spotify or YouTube, then return to the transcript on the website when you are ready to check your work.

Single-speed dictations Choose one rate and practise at the speed you need.

Speed ramps Write the same passage three times at increasing speeds.

Clear, general-language practice Build confidence with useful passages written for straightforward checking and transcription.

Focused principle practice

Drill, Baby, Drill.

Ten-sentence Teeline dictation drills, each focused on one principle. Pause for as long as you need after each sentence, then continue when you are ready.

Use the Back and Forward buttons to move through the drills. The newest exercise appears first.

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This is a new and growing library. Further single-speed dictations, speed ramps and transcripts will be added regularly.

40 wpm

Community garden

A foundation dictation using clear, everyday language.

Community garden

40 words per minute · foundation

Listen to the complete passage on YouTube, take it down in Teeline, then check your work against the transcript.

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How to use the library

Write it, read it and check it.

The recording is only the first part. Read your notes back, type the passage and compare it with the transcript on the website.

01Choose a speed that is challenging but still manageable.

02Write the passage in Teeline without looking at the transcript.

03Read your notes back and type what you wrote.

04Check the website transcript and note any omissions, additions or wrong words.

05Repeat the passage only if there is something useful to improve.