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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Considered stenography as a job as my teacher was a stenographer.
They don’t have a QWERTY keyboard, she can type 200+ WORDS a minute that way. They also use a short hand, so she actually gets 50 to 100 phrases / a minute just typing. Then on top of that newer stenography uses computers with tons of programs and short keys.
It’s not allowed in court, but when she works in offices a speech to text program writes a file. Then after she compares her short hand and corrects and notates the speech to text making her life a breeze. Especially when people talk over each other.
When she use to work closed captioning live, she had a lot hot keys and a couple minutes delay / grace period that she could fall behind in and a foot pedal to signal staff to take a brief pause / breath to buy her a couple of seconds.
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