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How relevant is stenography today, now that we have ubiquitous voice recording and voice recognition? What are the use cases? I'm genuinely curious.
by kozak 5y ago
How relevant is stenography today, now that we have ubiquitous voice recording and voice recognition? What are the use cases? I'm genuinely curious.
- kleiba 5y agoWherever the GDPR applies (and possibly similar regulations elsewhere), you cannot record someone's voice without prior consent. So, taking notes in meetings or courts is usually not possible/practical via voice recordings.
- another-dave 5y agoI'd imagine that accuracy is a key driver — e.g. for something like a courtroom setting, I think I'd more trust a professional stenographer to record proceedings accurately that a programme that's doing automated speech-to-text and then someone going through to correct errors afterwards while listening to a recording. As an aside, I'd consider a different name if you need to say "rhymes with" (especially as without that I'd naturally read it as rhyming with clover).
- jhloa2 5y agoI might be immature, but I originally pronounced it in my head as P-Lover...
- base2john 5y agoGood explanation on the value of human captioning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKe1O7ppyqQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKe1O7ppyqQ
- detaro 5y agovoice recognition might be ubiquitious, but good voice recognition is not, and until that changes it's relevant. E.g. professional event live-capturing is going to be steno most of the time, for people doing subtitling on videos it's a useful skill for speed reasons, ...