Introduction to Machine Stenography

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  • Select activity StudySteno is under intermittent active developmen...

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    StudySteno is under intermittent active development and is anticipated to go live when Real Life gives me time to focus on this project again.

    You shouldn't have found your way here, but since you did, feel free to look around and play with things.  Just be aware that everything is changing all the time, there is a lot of "placeholder" content, and everything is an ongoing work in progress.  Hopefully, I'll be able to focus on this project again sometime in 2024.

    
    

  • Select activity Announcements

    

    Announcements Forum
  • Select activity Forum: Welcome New Stenographers!

    

    Forum: Welcome New Stenographers!

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  • Select activity Glossary

    

    Glossary
• Select topic Introduction to Stenography

  Introduction to Stenography
  • Select activity Stenography is a skill that most anyone can learn ...

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    Stenography is a skill that most anyone can learn and use for any text entry or writing purpose at all!  

  • Select activity What is stenography? What can it be used for? Why should I learn it? Is it hard? and other FAQs

    

    What is stenography? What can it be used for? Why should I learn it? Is it hard? and other FAQs Page

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    Got questions?  Quick answers are found here on what is probably the longest page of the entire site!
  • Select activity Stan's Quick and Dirty: How Stenography Works

    

    Stan's Quick and Dirty: How Stenography Works Page

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  • Select activity Mirabai Knight - Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

    

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    The steno revolution begins!

  • Select activity Steno for Everything: Giving Up the Computer Keyboard (StenoFest 2019)

    

    Steno for Everything: Giving Up the Computer Keyboard (StenoFest 2019) Page

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  • Select activity "For the Record" - Documentary Film

    

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    For the Record tracks several court reporters, captioners and CART providers and they strive to attain the Guinness title of World’s Fastest Court Reporter. It explores the “steno culture,” as experienced by stenographers, through such events as 9/11, the Nuremberg trials and other high-profile courtroom moments, while reviewing the history of these “keepers of the record.”
    

  • Select activity History of Stenography

    

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    The history of stenography, that is, of writing through use of symbols and abbreviations in order to record (usually) verbal speech quickly, is as old and varied as the history of written language itself and filled with some real characters!  Learn more through this extensive timeline, which I admit I may have gone a bit overboard on!

    This timeline is easier to view and read if you click on the "full screen" icon (found at the upper right corner of the timeline).  You can scroll through the timeline using the right arrow on your keyboard or clicking the arrow icons on the right (forward) and left (backward) sides of the timeline.

  • Select activity History of Stenography (copy)

    

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    The history of stenography, that is, of writing through use of symbols and abbreviations in order to record (usually) verbal speech quickly, is as old and varied as the history of written language itself and filled with some real characters!  Learn more through this extensive timeline, which I admit I may have gone a bit overboard on!

    This timeline is easier to view and read if you click on the "full screen" icon (found at the upper right corner of the timeline).  You can scroll through the timeline using the right arrow on your keyboard or clicking the arrow icons on the right (forward) and left (backward) sides of the timeline.

  • Select activity testing broken History of Stenography timeline

    

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  • Select activity History of Stenography

    

    History of Stenography H5P
• Select topic Getting Started: Keyboards, Steno machines and other alternatives

  Getting Started: Keyboards, Steno machines and other alternatives
  • Select activity Using a Standard Keyboard for Steno

    

    Using a Standard Keyboard for Steno Page

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    Want to get started learning about steno - machine shorthand - but don't want to spend a lot (or any) money? Thanks to Plover, you can use a standard keyboard to get started. Click to learn about using keyboards, keycaps and more.

  • Select activity Steno Machines

    

    Steno Machines Page

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    From hand-built keyboards to options for old/used steno machines, there's many ways to get your hands on a steno keyboard without spending thousands of dollars.

  • Select activity Other Alternatives

    

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    Don't have a keyboard and can't afford to spend any money at all?  Here's information on using a tablet as a steno keyboard, online virtual steno keyboards, some simple do-it-yourself options that, while they won't connect to a computer, are a simple option to at least get a 'feel' for machine stenography, if not the actuality of it, and more!

• Select topic Getting Started: Install Plover

  Getting Started: Install Plover
• Select topic Layout of the steno keys

  Layout of the steno keys
  • Select activity Meet your Steno Keyboard

    

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    From Ted Morin's Art of the Chord online textbook, read this detailed introduction to the steno keyboard and how it works.  Learn about how to place your hands, steno order and more.

  • Select activity Steno Order

    

    Steno Order Page

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  • Select activity Quick Quiz

    

    Quick Quiz

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    For this quiz, check each answer as you go through the quiz.  You can change your answers as often as you like and take this quiz as many times as you wish.  It's intended more to help you absorb the concepts discussed than to test your knowledge.

• Select topic Putting it all together!

  Putting it all together!
  • Select activity Writing Simple Words, Phrases and Sentences

    

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• Select topic Congratulations!

  Congratulations!
  • Select activity You now have a basic understanding of how steno wo...

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    You now have a basic understanding of how steno works and an introduction to the primary layout of the keyboard.  Don't worry if you haven't memorized the keyboard so far, that will come with time - we will drill the keyboard a lot in the next course, where you'll learn the rest of the letters, punctuation, command and formatting strokes, and so much more!