I saw some videos and still can’t understand, a lady just type like 5 buttons ans a whole phrase comes out on the screen. Also doesnt make sense at all what I see from the stenographer screen, it is like random letters no in the same line.
EDIT: Im impressed by how complex and interesting stenography is! Thank you for the replies and also thank you very much for the Awards! 🙂
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My mom describes it like playing the piano. Unlike qwerty, where you’re keying individual letters at a time, a stenomachine can generate entire words and even phrases with a few keys pressed simultaneously. When you watch a stenographer, it’s like they’re playing chords, their fingers aren’t tagging buttons individually.
I do know my mom has roughly 80,000 combinations from only 24 keys (two of which are ‘s’, mind you.) She averages 250 wpm. The average english speaker talks at about 160 wpm, but you need to be faster because you’ll have overlap in dialogue when multiple people speak.
She can program phrases and words and names that she knows will come up often. She volunteers to key for deaf people in church, so there are some things that are just repeated throughout the sermon that she has pre-programed I guess.
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