How does an stenographer/stenography works?

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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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I saw a video the other day about this. As others have said, they have a keyboard that looks kind of like a piano. there are 3 sections, with like 10 keys each, and they combine to form difefent base letters. Those letters are then decoded into the actual word. The person giving the example was a student but was about 85% (or better) proficient. said that they are still around because they are actually better at recording than audio recording. If there’s a cough/sneeze it could muffle whoever is talking, but the stenographer would be able to hear and correctly reply. Plus they have near instant readback, compared to other recording types.

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