<story><title>Art of chording</title><url>https://www.artofchording.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Was curious how fast you could be.  Apparently there&amp;#x27;s a guy that can hit 360 words&amp;#x2F;minute.&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nyscr.net&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;can-you-type-360-words-per-minute-mark-kislingbury-can#:~:text=Mark%20Kislingbury%20can%20hit%20more,minute%2C%20with%2097%20percent%20accuracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nyscr.net&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;can-you-type-360-words-...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;That makes him about as fast as a 300 baud modem. And probably around 1.8x the fastest keyboard typists.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Curious if this as &amp;quot;optimized&amp;quot; as it can be.  Is there a theoretically faster way to get words from your hands to something digital?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also curious how this works for court cases where a language other than English comes into play, alongside English. Canada might be a good example, where French and English dialogue might often co-exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apostacy</author><text>Can confirm. My uncle is a stenographer, I learned all about it.&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, just to get his license he had to hit 270w&amp;#x2F;m. He said he can get up to about 300w&amp;#x2F;m.&lt;p&gt;The raw transcripts are composed of shorthand codes, and letters that represent syllables and other components of speech. I saw that many words were just represented by one or a few letters. So, by &amp;quot;words&amp;quot;, we are often talking about codes of only a few letters. They are printed on thermal receipt width paper, and floppy disk (this was about 15 years ago).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m also curious how this works for court cases where a language other than English comes into play, alongside English. Canada might be a good example, where French and English dialogue might often co-exist.&lt;p&gt;It shouldn&amp;#x27;t matter what language it is, because the stenographer has their own custom shorthand dictionary. The raw transcript that they generate is for the stenographers internal use. Only after the trail do they transcribe it into human readable form. Lawyers then have to pay the stenographer a fee for their transcripts. My uncle told me that it is common for multiple lawyers to each pay him a fee that he charges by the page.&lt;p&gt;He, like most court reporters, outsources their transcription to other people via Email. It requires human transcription, because the raw transcripts need to be interpreted. It is not a something that you can just run through a filter. His scopists[1] will email him back and fourth for clarification on parts of the transcript they don&amp;#x27;t understand. This is important, because their transcripts are the official legal record of what happened in a trial.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Scopist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Scopist&lt;/a&gt;  
[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Shorthand&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Shorthand&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Art of chording</title><url>https://www.artofchording.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Was curious how fast you could be.  Apparently there&amp;#x27;s a guy that can hit 360 words&amp;#x2F;minute.&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nyscr.net&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;can-you-type-360-words-per-minute-mark-kislingbury-can#:~:text=Mark%20Kislingbury%20can%20hit%20more,minute%2C%20with%2097%20percent%20accuracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nyscr.net&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;can-you-type-360-words-...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;That makes him about as fast as a 300 baud modem. And probably around 1.8x the fastest keyboard typists.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Curious if this as &amp;quot;optimized&amp;quot; as it can be.  Is there a theoretically faster way to get words from your hands to something digital?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also curious how this works for court cases where a language other than English comes into play, alongside English. Canada might be a good example, where French and English dialogue might often co-exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>Re. languages: The issue with the Plover type stenography is that it heavily relies on a dictionary. If a dictionary does not exist for your language, it becomes close to useless.&lt;p&gt;Many European languages use a form of orthographic stenography instead. This is perhaps a tiny bit less efficient, but makes up for it with flexibility in spades.&lt;p&gt;I started working on a computer implementation of that, but sadly life got in the way. If there was any project I could be paid to continue work on, I would want it to be this. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kqr&amp;#x2F;qweyboard&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;kqr&amp;#x2F;qweyboard&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>