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A keyboard that lets fingers outrun speech, chord by silent chord.
means A specialized shorthand machine (and the typing method used on it) that lets a trained operator record speech in real time by pressing multiple keys at once to represent whole sounds, syllables, or words.
from Built from Greek roots: 'steno-' meaning narrow or compressed (the same root in 'stenography') fused with 'type,' from 'typos,' meaning a mark or impression. Together the name simply promises 'narrow writing' — speech squeezed down into compact chorded strokes, a 20th-century machine answer to the older art of shorthand.
- speed
- captures 225+ words per minute, phonetically
- method
- keys pressed together as chords, not sequentially
- users
- court reporters and live captioners rely on it
- output
- produces syllables, later translated into readable text