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I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-overview https://github.com/openstenoproject/

by dmos62 5y ago

I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-overview https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-... It's essentially a chord-based, dictionary-based, short-hand typing. You write by looking up entries in a custom dictionary (a dictionary of syllables for example) by pressing combinations of keys. The stenographer's keyboard has few keys, compared to a QWERTY. You can define your dictionary however you like. This must be extremely good for languages whose phonetics can be directly translated to its ortographics (without semantic or grammatical parsing), because then the dictionary is small and easy to remember. English is not optimal in that sense: e.g. the words 'flower' and 'flour' are phonetically identical. Edit: but then, ML transcription would work great for those languages for the same reason. You could supplement with ML or some crafty NLP to effectively simplify dictionaries. Autocomplete/autocorrect in other words. Really cool domain.

dharmab 5y ago
I knew a court reporter. She would clean up the shorthand afterwards from her memory and using the audio recordings if needed. Her steno had a full alphabet mode for typing things that needed accuracy like people's names.
jhgb 5y ago
> I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-overview https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-... I don't get why that page doesn't call it stenotypy (as in, on a machine) instead of stenography (as in Pitman, Gregg, Teeline, etc.). Also, I take it that "CAT software" does not refer to computer-aided translation here?
- woodrowbarlow 5y ago
  the video on the landing page makes this claim: > steno is not typing. typing is when you get one character of output per one press of the keyboard; whereas in steno you press multiple keys at once to make a steno outline which must then go through a translation process to produce readable text. this is why court reporters call the process writing and not typing.
  - jhgb 5y ago
    Ehm... https://www.britannica.com/topic/stenotypy https://www.britannica.com/topic/stenotypy
- CrazyStat 5y ago
  > Also, I take it that "CAT software" does not refer to computer-aided translation here? Transcription instead of translation.
- mumblemumble 5y ago
  I am guessing it's because stenographers originally did it by writing shorthand, and nobody wanted to change the name of their job just because started using a different tool to do it.

by dmos62 5y ago

dharmab 5y ago

I knew a court reporter. She would clean up the shorthand afterwards from her memory and using the audio recordings if needed. Her steno had a full alphabet mode for typing things that needed accuracy like people's names.

jhgb 5y ago

> I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-overview https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-... I don't get why that page doesn't call it stenotypy (as in, on a machine) instead of stenography (as in Pitman, Gregg, Teeline, etc.). Also, I take it that "CAT software" does not refer to computer-aided translation here?

woodrowbarlow 5y ago
the video on the landing page makes this claim: > steno is not typing. typing is when you get one character of output per one press of the keyboard; whereas in steno you press multiple keys at once to make a steno outline which must then go through a translation process to produce readable text. this is why court reporters call the process writing and not typing.
- jhgb 5y ago
  Ehm... https://www.britannica.com/topic/stenotypy https://www.britannica.com/topic/stenotypy
CrazyStat 5y ago
> Also, I take it that "CAT software" does not refer to computer-aided translation here? Transcription instead of translation.
mumblemumble 5y ago
I am guessing it's because stenographers originally did it by writing shorthand, and nobody wanted to change the name of their job just because started using a different tool to do it.