Voxcess Typing Trainer
Prepare for government typing tests with your screen reader, under the board's own rules.
- Typing
- Public beta
- Version 1.0.0
Voxcess Typing Trainer is in public beta. It works, but you may still find rough edges, and things can change between versions. Please use it with care, and keep your own copy of anything that matters to you.
Tell us about any bug you find, any feature you would like, or any suggestion at all: from inside the app with Help, then Report a Bug, or write to us. What you tell us decides what we fix first.
At a glance
- 58 exam presets in English, Hindi and regional languages
- Each board's own time limit, speed target and marking
- Ten ways to practise, from key drills to full mock batteries
- Every mistake explained, word by word
- Bring your own passages from Word, PDF or text files
- Works with NVDA and JAWS, keyboard only
About this app
Voxcess Typing Trainer helps blind and low-vision candidates prepare for the typing and skill tests in government recruitment. It reads the passage to you as you go, marks you the way the board does, and tells you exactly what went wrong.
Practise under the real exam rules
- 58 exam presets from more than 35 recruiting bodies, including SSC, DSSSB, state service selection boards, High Courts, the Supreme Court, EPFO and FCI. 40 are in English, 14 in Hindi (Mangal) and 4 in regional languages.
- Each preset applies that board's time limit, speed target and marking, and whether Backspace, the arrow keys or copy and paste are allowed. A low buzz tells you when a key is blocked.
- Speed is measured in words per minute, or key depressions per hour for data-entry posts.
- PwBD extra time is added when you mark yourself eligible. Where a board exempts visually impaired candidates from its typing test, the app tells you so instead of offering a practice test.
Ways to practise
- Paragraph practice, timed tests and full mock exams.
- Mock Test Battery: several runs with one combined result and a predicted band.
- Stamina Trainer for long tests, Dictation Mode, and Smart Adaptive Practice that sets the pace.
- Practice Mistakes and Spaced Repetition Review bring back the words you got wrong.
- Drills for the home row, each keyboard row, numbers, symbols and capitals, plus drills built from your own mistakes.
- Today (Ctrl+Shift+T) tells you your speed, the gap to your target, and the one thing to practise next.
Built for screen readers
- Choose how much is read out at a time: a word, a few words, or a whole sentence.
- Sound cues before each word tell you when it starts with a capital, is all capitals, or has capitals inside it.
- Punctuation is named aloud, so you do not lose marks for commas your screen reader skips.
- After any word you can hear what was expected, what you typed, and how it was counted.
- Alt+2 tells you whether you are on track to pass at your current pace.
- Scanned PDFs are refused with an explanation, because reading text out of a picture gets letters wrong and you would be marked down for them.
- Keyboard references for Hindi (Mangal and INSCRIPT) and ten regional languages.
Keyboard shortcuts
These are the ones you will use most. Press F1 in the app for the full list.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Alt+R | Hear the current word |
| Alt+R twice quickly | Spell the current word |
| Ctrl+P | Preview the next five words |
| Ctrl+Shift+R | Hear your last word, what was expected, and how it was counted |
| Ctrl+Shift+B | Go back one step and type it again |
| Ctrl+Shift+G | Change how much is read out at a time |
| Alt+1 | Hear all your live statistics |
| Alt+2 | Hear whether you are on track to pass |
| Ctrl+T | Hear the time remaining |
| Ctrl+Shift+P | Pause or resume |
| Escape | End the session (asks first) |
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Enter | Start practising |
| Ctrl+N | Add a passage |
| Ctrl+I | Import a passage from a file |
| Ctrl+3 | Mock exam |
| Ctrl+Shift+T | Today: what to practise next |
| Ctrl+H | Session history |
| Ctrl+F | Find any feature by name |
| F1 | All keyboard shortcuts |
Your progress stays with you
Your results and history are stored on your own computer, never on our servers. You can export any session as a text or Word report.
What you need
- Windows 10 or Windows 11.
- NVDA or JAWS. The app speaks through your screen reader, so one of them must be running.
- An internet connection to sign in.
- A Voxcess account.
How to get started
1. Create a Voxcess account on this website and confirm your email address.
2. Download the installer from this page and run it. It installs for your own Windows user, so you do not need administrator rights.
3. Open Voxcess Typing Trainer. Log in with your Voxcess email and password, or choose Log in with Google. Tick Keep me signed in on this computer so you do not have to sign in every time.
4. Add a passage to type. The app comes with no passages, so bring your own: Ctrl+N to paste or type one, or Ctrl+I to import a Word, PDF or text file.
5. Press Ctrl+Enter to start practising. Choose what to type and how to run it: untimed, timed, or under real exam rules.
6. Before your first session, make sure punctuation is read aloud. The app names it for you by default. Help, then Punctuation and your screen reader, explains the choices.
Download Voxcess Typing Trainer
You will need a Voxcess account to sign in, and NVDA or JAWS running. Create an account if you do not have one yet.
Got a question about this app? Write to us. Feedback is filed against the app so we can act on it quickly.