steno

My impression from reading about steno is that a lot of the complexity in steno systems comes from disambiguating similar-sounding words.

I imagine a setup with both qwerty and steno co-existing, instead of trying to force steno to cover all text input.

I'm imagining a left hand / right hand split qwerty, but nestled in the middle is the smaller steno board.

Some steno software does slightly more complex expansion, but the vast majority of it is pure dictionary lookup.

Since steno you need two hands you can't use it on your phone (keyboards on your pockets?

The really great idea is the portable low cost steno keyboard, maybe backed by a Raspberry Pi.

And hey its helping the Open Steno project so its got that going for it.

Is that 200 WPM counting expanded words or the raw steno notation?

You really need a minimum of 16-key rollover to do steno properly.

I'm in talks with a small NYC private school to possibly start some middle schoolers on an informal course in steno.

As for paper products I just use whatever skillcraft steno pads are available.

Yeah, one of the things I love about steno (as opposed to predictive systems like voice recognition or autocorrect) is its 100% determinism.

This was the era of the "Steno pool" and their job title was "typist".

In steno, the typist's chord (known as a "stroke") is a phonetic abbreviation that is automatically expanded into a word or phrase by software with a lookup table.

So to take the example of entering "Python", the screen reader would notice the backspaces produced by the second steno keystroke and would try to speak the backspaced characters, interrupting itself all along the way, before speaking the newly constructed word (assuming the user has word echo enabled).

Steno seems like last century's solution to the problem, not this century's.

Steno, being syllabic, requires fewer keystrokes per word than braille, but at least proficient braille users would already have the dexterity and some of the concepts.

I honestly can't imagine using less than 45g and maintaining accuracy, especially on something that's basically close to being a chording keyboard like the Stenotype (but then again, I'm not a steno).