How does a steno machine work?
While ordinary keyboards (often called “qwerty” keyboards after the first six letters on the top row) write words letter by letter, steno keyboards write them syllable by syllable — more or less. Nearly every word sound (called a phoneme) in the English language can be constructed from the initial consonants on the left-hand side of the keyboard, the vowels located in the middle and operated by the thumbs, and the ending consonants on the right-hand side. There is no space bar; before the computer age, stenographers would read back their notes to themselves and resolve the jammed-together syllables into words based on context. When the computer came along, offering with it a much more efficient form of transcription, that method couldn’t be relied upon anymore. Computers don’t know English and can’t comprehend meanings of words, so stenographic theory had to be significantly restructured. Now every word a stenographer wants to be able to write on the machine must be entered in a steno
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