Stenography for Technical Authors?

Steno keyboard

This tweet caught my eye:

It linked to an article The 100 Year Old Trick to Writing at 240 Words Per Minute:

About four years ago, stenographer Mirabai Knight came to the conclusion that stenography had been a walled garden for too long — controlled and marginalized by big companies. She set about creating her own affordable hardware and open source software designed to set stenography free to the masses…

Note that this keyboard does need to be able to recognize multiple simultaneous keystrokes, so gaming keyboards (starting at $50) are the norm.

This could really help us when we’re transcribing the scripts for our online training courses. We’re not aware of any Technical Authors who use stenography – is there anyone out there?

3 Comments

Dori Green

Haven’t needed stenography since I learned how to record and transcribe using a digital recorder.

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