They're not easy to learn how to operate, but successful court reporters who can use a stenotype machine are well paid and many work the hours they choose.
when you need something conservative to keep eyes off of your cleavage in the office, but also something that will ward off the eyes of the thugs in the court by showing off your biceps like they wear it, it's a very versatile outfit
holy shit Im flipping my table over. I have watched now 3 videos and everyone just explains minuteslong what the keys are. I am fourious as fuck. NO ONE SHOWS HOW TO WRITE WORDS. SHOW US HOW YOU TYPE WORDS.
Court reporting student here, you type words phonetically. There are also a lot of words that you have "briefs" for, so instead of spelling them out you can just strike a single chord. For example, "Do you remember" can be typed /TKOUR, which is basically DOUR
@@pokepenguin144 There's not really a huge market around steno. It's actually a higher demand profession because so little people go into it. Right now in my steno class, which is the 3rd in the program second semester, I believe there are only 6 of us out of the 20 that started. My suggestion is to look up speed competition videos. If you're interested in how they actually look when they are typed in the program, you can look up stenography notes and you'll find them pretty easily.
I just can’t believe that people can do this. People speak so quickly sometimes. Starting sentences, stopping, starting again. Another person talks at the same time or close to that. You also have to indicate _who_ is speaking. Multiple attorneys, the judge, the witness, clerk too, maybe. I just don’t understand how you can keep up with everything and type it out accurately. Yet those of you that do it are remarkably accurate. Mind blown🤯
Trust me, it takes months of practice and practice. I was interested in becoming a court reporter and did my research, but I think I’m gonna stick with becoming a psychologist lol
I took shorthand in school and I thought it was a shorthand machine. 40 yrs after high school, here I am trying to figure out what that court reporter lady is actually typing. LOL
Learning to use the machine isn’t hard. Learning brief forms is easy. The hard part is gaining speed accurately. And it doesn’t take months, it takes a two to three years, depending on your physical skill.
@@RayPaganJr I'm just fascinated by court reporters and they get NO credit! There should be an awards show for court reporters, like, "And the Grammy goes to.." LOL
Oh my god, after seeing this, I am still confused and bewildered about how this possibly works. Stenographers, I am glad you are paid so well for this, because you deserve it!
It's not something that can be learned via a YT vid. You have to take lessons, spend long hours practicing and have the finger dexterity and speed of an accomplished piano player.
These folks are amazing.....words flying back and forth between prosecutor and defendant, enter the ears of the court reporter, swirl around her brain which tell her fingers which keys to press all at the speed of light.
I’m a trial lawyer and rest assured that computers are never going to take this job away. There is absolutely no substitute for a human being present in the courtroom, paying attention, watching facial expressions when needed, understanding tone, and interrupting the proceedings when needed because people talked over one another or something needs to be repeated. All those things are necessary to understanding the actual words being said, to transcribe them. Will technology offer tools to make court reporters’ jobs even easier and quicker? Sure. But I cannot trust a computer over a human for my transcript. No way in hell. You need humans to understand humans.
pixiecatneuter Automating vote counting is also a bad idea but it’s not a good analogy to this. Court reporter decisions are made by individual trial lawyers-not groupthink legislatures who can be corrupted by foolish thinking or lobbyists. As long as you have human lawyers doing trials, those lawyers will always (in general) prefer human court reporters.
started my first class two days ago. Not gonna lie.. it's actually really interesting and somehow fun to learn to type like this. I couldn't believe that I was reading back to the teacher in steno form!
When she said she installed her own dictionary into the machine I sorta understand now. The keys are just hit in a certain sequence that she knows in order to spit out the sentences and words that are being recorded. Or maybe I didn’t understand a thing. That’s how I interpret what she was saying.
Have you every used a program like Motionjoy to make video game paddles compatible with your computer? Some do this for emulators to play classic games. Anyways once you get either program you have to lable the buttons to there actions. It's vary similar in the labeling sense.
Yeah. That's what she means. I used to work for a closed captioning company where we did this but with our mouths. We basically spoke in codes to our laptop through a headset and had to remember custom words we put into our vocabulary. For example, instead of saying "artificial intelligence" I would say "art mac." (because it's shorter) It was the hardest job I've ever had; news reporters/judges/etc. would speak at lightning speed.
Im pretty sure they are witches. This is witch craft. They just touch the keyboard and sentences appear. Im typing this on a freaking keyboard. I KNOW HOW TYPING WORK! WTF WAS THAT! traded their cauldrons for some wicked hell device and sit around in court rooms all day doing lord knows what. In our law suit and criminalizing society, tearing itself apart from the inside of a courtroom, Of coarse thats right where they'd want to be.
i feel like its rly similar to my chinese keyboard, where u type smth like: "nh, wyj ddl mdd" and they change it into "ni hao, wo yi jing dao da le mu di di". idk tho, thats just what i feel its like
I'm serving on jury duty now. It fascinating to watch the guy use the machine. He has it connected to his computer which is typing out in long hand at the same time. Very interesting to watch. He probably gets to work on interesting cases. (Not the one we're working on now). 😒
My my my how this machine has updated. I went to Ms. Lippert’s courting school in Plainview, Tx and my machine you had to load paper into and transcribe it later. Maybe if I had this machine I might still be a stenographer.
So basically, stenographers are typing in another language that is more phonetically based and simple, allowing for faster typing, combine with a machine that allows them to type portions of words instead of individuals letters. Am I right here ?
You’re kind of right. Basically they type a sequence at the same time that codes for a word and that gets coded onto their computer. Their computer has a word bank that they put words into for the codes ahead of time. My only question is: what if someone says a word in the court that isn’t already in their computer? Idk if you’ve watched “the intimation game”, but the enigma code breaker is like this.
I can't help but wonder, wouldn't an audio recording just be easier. No mistakes, no issues.. There's still a very human element here where words could be lost if the typer doesnt hear properly. Anyone off the street could type up an audio log and the audio doesnt lie.
So it's like on those old mobile phones where you press a few different numbers which forms words instead of pressing the same number a bunch of times for a specific letter
What I don't get is how these stenograhy machines worked before computerisation, bearing in mind they were being used in the 1920s. I saw a print-out from one and it looked like till receipt with random capital letters separated by lots of spaces like K. M. P MP. L. S C F X. L How was anyone supposed to read that? Pen shorthand can be hard enough to read back but that machine shorthand was on another level. It looked like the native language of space aliens👽‼️
I went to court reporting school and was a good writer, but I had severe test anxiety and would bang the keys when I got nervous and got behind behind causing misstrokes; therefore, I could not pass the State test after three tries. The last time I passed the straight and jury charge and missed the Q&A by 20-something. I kick myself all the time for not going back to re-qualify to take the State test.
Saw this keyboard on judge Judy and just had to know how the hell these 15 or so keys can possibly catch everything being said. After watching a few videos I still don't get it but I sure hope these people are paid well.
I have been wanting to know this for a very long time. The question just happened to pop into my head while watching the Ted Bundy court appearance so i searched and here I am lololol😆
@@aassyyssaa it’s not paint, it’s rubber pads for comfort and less noise. Her machine is actually very clean, but the pads show wear and tear, as expected. We pound on these keys five to eight hours a day. People tend to yammer on and on.
💕💕💕💕💕I LOVE STENOGRAPHY....I HAVE BEEN WORKING AS STENOGRAPHER S8NCE 1993 IN SUNDH POLICE....I LOVE IT💕💕💕💕💕STENO RIAZ HUSSAIN JAGIRANI ...KARACHI PAKISTAN
So we take shorthand notes and then fully transcribe it to English afterward with proper punctuation, etc. Why not just video record the proceedings and make the transcription from that?
if you want to actually learn this, you can actually try it on a keyboard www.openstenoproject.org/ if your kb supports multiple keys pressed simultaneously
This is weird people don’t just type fast?? The court doesn’t just record it and have the person rewatch it if any mistakes or missing parts then submit it?
Voice to text is actually really awful, nowhere as good as what most people think. It needs to be transcribed down as a text document and voice to text programs will mishear all the time and also can't handle cross-talk and other interruptions.
@@shelbyanderson761 Just plain video/audio recording, no text. That is what I meant. If you somehow need to turn them into text, just watch/hear the recordings and type or write them down. Plus, it doesn't have to be one person transcribing them.
@@roku_nine By law, court proceedings must be transcribed into text. And you clearly didn't read what I commented above on why transcribing at a later time doesn't work
@@shelbyanderson761 You have no idea what you are talking about. Most closed captioning is done via cheap or open sourced speech to text. It is more accurate over the long run than some middle aged human's hearing.
Everyone's confused by the steno machine, meanwhile I'm confused by the curious combination of a turtleneck + no sleeves.
I bet she cuts the sleeves off of everything
when you need something conservative to keep eyes off of your cleavage in the office, but also something that will ward off the eyes of the thugs in the court by showing off your biceps like they wear it, it's a very versatile outfit
She's a JoJo character
But the vest…
@@printme2010 Yes, that vest raises even more questions.
Ive watched like 5 different videos explaining this and I’m still so confused lol
Look up "Plover" and "Open Steno" -- there are a bunch of people who do this as a hobby and they explain it foe beginners.
Lmaooo right?? Every video is basically "pressing these buttons spells words"
Same!! None are actually showcasing a word in action! Like show me what you type when actually reporting - not HOW you type.
glad im not the only one... after you learn that little fact, thats not the confusing part!! why do all the videos just keep saying that haha
Theyre stenos not teachers i guess.
holy shit Im flipping my table over. I have watched now 3 videos and everyone just explains minuteslong what the keys are. I am fourious as fuck. NO ONE SHOWS HOW TO WRITE WORDS. SHOW US HOW YOU TYPE WORDS.
Whoa. With that kind of anger management, you’ll be able to watch her do it as a defendant soon enough!
Court reporting student here, you type words phonetically. There are also a lot of words that you have "briefs" for, so instead of spelling them out you can just strike a single chord. For example, "Do you remember" can be typed /TKOUR, which is basically DOUR
I feel the same, are they hiding it on fucking purpose 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬
well probably because theres a huge market around steno. try looking up open steno if you want to see how it works
@@pokepenguin144 There's not really a huge market around steno. It's actually a higher demand profession because so little people go into it. Right now in my steno class, which is the 3rd in the program second semester, I believe there are only 6 of us out of the 20 that started.
My suggestion is to look up speed competition videos. If you're interested in how they actually look when they are typed in the program, you can look up stenography notes and you'll find them pretty easily.
This is incredible. Seems also difficult. Court reporting is an art! I’m considering going this route. Thank you for this video.
Hey i am steno from india
Don’t. These jobs will be replaced by AI in the next few years.
summerrr1 you need a witness there. And sometimes they don’t always allow recordings
non yobussiness True, but changing the law to allow video recordings is not beyond the realms of possibility.
Dude I have ear buds in and I cannot hear this chick talking at all
I just can’t believe that people can do this. People speak so quickly sometimes. Starting sentences, stopping, starting again. Another person talks at the same time or close to that. You also have to indicate _who_ is speaking. Multiple attorneys, the judge, the witness, clerk too, maybe. I just don’t understand how you can keep up with everything and type it out accurately. Yet those of you that do it are remarkably accurate.
Mind blown🤯
Wait till you see Spanish speakers :p
My head is broken from trying to see if i can do this.
Trust me, it takes months of practice and practice. I was interested in becoming a court reporter and did my research, but I think I’m gonna stick with becoming a psychologist lol
I took shorthand in school and I thought it was a shorthand machine. 40 yrs after high school, here I am trying to figure out what that court reporter lady is actually typing. LOL
Learning to use the machine isn’t hard. Learning brief forms is easy. The hard part is gaining speed accurately. And it doesn’t take months, it takes a two to three years, depending on your physical skill.
@@RayPaganJr I'm just fascinated by court reporters and they get NO credit! There should be an awards show for court reporters, like, "And the Grammy goes to.." LOL
@@VideosOfRandomContext I think court reporters must be like Alaskan crab fishermen, there are only a handful of people on EARTH who can do that!
I love when a person is committed to their career and learning their craft to the highest level like this reporter has. Inspiring
hhmm did she really create the database all herself though?
Oh my god, after seeing this, I am still confused and bewildered about how this possibly works. Stenographers, I am glad you are paid so well for this, because you deserve it!
It's not something that can be learned via a YT vid. You have to take lessons, spend long hours practicing and have the finger dexterity and speed of an accomplished piano player.
@@NealB123 Uh - It is very simple to use a stenograph - not sure why you're suggesting it is difficult.
Didn't realise the stenographer machine is a modern day enigma machine
These folks are amazing.....words flying back and forth between prosecutor and defendant, enter the ears of the court reporter, swirl around her brain which tell her fingers which keys to press all at the speed of light.
I’m a trial lawyer and rest assured that computers are never going to take this job away. There is absolutely no substitute for a human being present in the courtroom, paying attention, watching facial expressions when needed, understanding tone, and interrupting the proceedings when needed because people talked over one another or something needs to be repeated. All those things are necessary to understanding the actual words being said, to transcribe them. Will technology offer tools to make court reporters’ jobs even easier and quicker? Sure. But I cannot trust a computer over a human for my transcript. No way in hell. You need humans to understand humans.
pixiecatneuter Automating vote counting is also a bad idea but it’s not a good analogy to this. Court reporter decisions are made by individual trial lawyers-not groupthink legislatures who can be corrupted by foolish thinking or lobbyists. As long as you have human lawyers doing trials, those lawyers will always (in general) prefer human court reporters.
Good to read this as I begin classes in Spring 2020 AMEN 🙏
God bless you :)
started my first class two days ago. Not gonna lie.. it's actually really interesting and somehow fun to learn to type like this. I couldn't believe that I was reading back to the teacher in steno form!
Richard Manzo hey I just started too writing words it is a challenge
I got nothing of what she said I was hoping she typed something
😅
When she said she installed her own dictionary into the machine I sorta understand now. The keys are just hit in a certain sequence that she knows in order to spit out the sentences and words that are being recorded. Or maybe I didn’t understand a thing. That’s how I interpret what she was saying.
Have you every used a program like Motionjoy to make video game paddles compatible with your computer? Some do this for emulators to play classic games. Anyways once you get either program you have to lable the buttons to there actions. It's vary similar in the labeling sense.
@@anunentitledmotivatedmille7731 What a hilariously niche analogy.
@@jewwunnit to people without a PC it is but still your comment is GOATed
Yeah. That's what she means. I used to work for a closed captioning company where we did this but with our mouths. We basically spoke in codes to our laptop through a headset and had to remember custom words we put into our vocabulary.
For example, instead of saying "artificial intelligence" I would say "art mac." (because it's shorter) It was the hardest job I've ever had; news reporters/judges/etc. would speak at lightning speed.
Do you have to be a 50+ year old lady to do this? Pretty sure that's a requirment.
Right. Same age as yo momma
@@Roybaaa Oof
Tryfe destruction 100
@@Roybaaa One day your momma will be the same age and then it will not be so funny
Im pretty sure they are witches. This is witch craft. They just touch the keyboard and sentences appear. Im typing this on a freaking keyboard. I KNOW HOW TYPING WORK! WTF WAS THAT!
traded their cauldrons for some wicked hell device and sit around in court rooms all day doing lord knows what.
In our law suit and criminalizing society, tearing itself apart from the inside of a courtroom, Of coarse thats right where they'd want to be.
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Yes.
That’s why I’m here
@@sersi_bunai1290 same
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i feel like its rly similar to my chinese keyboard, where u type smth like: "nh, wyj ddl mdd" and they change it into "ni hao, wo yi jing dao da le mu di di". idk tho, thats just what i feel its like
Life's questions being answered one at a time. Thank you. I can cross this of the list.
I'm serving on jury duty now. It fascinating to watch the guy use the machine. He has it connected to his computer which is typing out in long hand at the same time. Very interesting to watch. He probably gets to work on interesting cases. (Not the one we're working on now). 😒
This is so interesting and something I've never known anything about. What an invention!
Wow...this video left me with more questions than answers
I came looking for answers. I left with more questions.
My my my how this machine has updated. I went to Ms. Lippert’s courting school in Plainview, Tx and my machine you had to load paper into and transcribe it later. Maybe if I had this machine I might still be a stenographer.
A job i could never do. To much damn amazing work!! 😁😁 i give all y'all props!!!
I could never do that job in a million years. I've read there's a high drop-out rate in court reporting courses, and that's easy to see why.
I envy those who succeed in graduating and doing well in this line of work. Court reporters are rock stars! 😁👍
Nice job crafting those programs!! That was rad
They know how to use that space technology but not a cameras volume control
It's like silent movies - they knew how to make a movie but not the sound.
So basically, stenographers are typing in another language that is more phonetically based and simple, allowing for faster typing, combine with a machine that allows them to type portions of words instead of individuals letters.
Am I right here ?
You’re kind of right. Basically they type a sequence at the same time that codes for a word and that gets coded onto their computer. Their computer has a word bank that they put words into for the codes ahead of time.
My only question is: what if someone says a word in the court that isn’t already in their computer?
Idk if you’ve watched “the intimation game”, but the enigma code breaker is like this.
How do they record different accents? Or do they sort of guess at what the person with an accent said if it isn'r obvious?
@The Pantagraph: Thank you for making and sharing this video for us.
It gave us a pretty decent idea as to how the steno machine works.
Very interesting, I always wondered how they did it. Stenos, you all rock! I hope AI doesn't enter this field.
I can't help but wonder, wouldn't an audio recording just be easier. No mistakes, no issues..
There's still a very human element here where words could be lost if the typer doesnt hear properly. Anyone off the street could type up an audio log and the audio doesnt lie.
So it's like on those old mobile phones where you press a few different numbers which forms words instead of pressing the same number a bunch of times for a specific letter
That, is facinating!
The lady typing in Court for DA Fani Willis & Nathan Wade testimonies brought me here.😁
Imagine writing a book this way.
😬
My head just exploded!!!!! Have to go now and pick up the pieces!!!!
So steno is not the almighty solution to fast typing since every individual write their own steno dictionary? Is this correct?
Meaning its as trust worthy as a person's opinion. How this is still allowed is scary.
...and here I am, having viewed this video twice, still not totally grasping how this works.
Because it DOESNT. Its a scam. Stenographers are to recording conversations like a Caricature artist is to a photograph.
im glad they made this video so very quiet that no one can possibly hear it
0:37 this is giving me a stroke
What I don't get is how these stenograhy machines worked before computerisation, bearing in mind they were being used in the 1920s. I saw a print-out from one and it looked like till receipt with random capital letters separated by lots of spaces like
K. M. P
MP. L. S
C F
X. L
How was anyone supposed to read that? Pen shorthand can be hard enough to read back but that machine shorthand was on another level. It looked like the native language of space aliens👽‼️
For aliens, look no further then the Basque language :p
This available in RGB Chroma brown keys?
I went to court reporting school and was a good writer, but I had severe test anxiety and would bang the keys when I got nervous and got behind behind causing misstrokes; therefore, I could not pass the State test after three tries. The last time I passed the straight and jury charge and missed the Q&A by 20-something. I kick myself all the time for not going back to re-qualify to take the State test.
She's completely awful at explaining this
typical government at work lol
how many months it takes to learn basic of this machine?
i'm sure much more than it took me to respond you for that lol
Saw this keyboard on judge Judy and just had to know how the hell these 15 or so keys can possibly catch everything being said. After watching a few videos I still don't get it but I sure hope these people are paid well.
I badly want to study this but I do not have money to enroll in the program :(
guess what? plover exists and there are courses online now
I have been wanting to know this for a very long time. The question just happened to pop into my head while watching the Ted Bundy court appearance so i searched and here I am lololol😆
that thing is filthy You'd think you would clean it from time to time LOL
I think the paint in keys just eroded
@@aassyyssaa it’s not paint, it’s rubber pads for comfort and less noise. Her machine is actually very clean, but the pads show wear and tear, as expected. We pound on these keys five to eight hours a day. People tend to yammer on and on.
Get over yourself.
@David Proeber I wouldn't be so proud to put my name as video editor. The audio was almost unintelligible.
My brain exploded
Ok this is my second video and i promise i wont make mistake like others to watch another video. Because im still confused
Holy smokes, whatever you get paid they need to double it🤓
Ares her machine's keys really filthy or is it just the lighting?
Way better than the Buzzfeed explanation that had a Tiktok video of a girl laying in bed attempting to explain it.. imagine that!
Legend has it her bodyguard is still there
💕💕💕💕💕I LOVE STENOGRAPHY....I HAVE BEEN WORKING AS STENOGRAPHER S8NCE 1993 IN SUNDH POLICE....I LOVE IT💕💕💕💕💕STENO RIAZ HUSSAIN JAGIRANI ...KARACHI PAKISTAN
As clear as mud!
Is it what we also know as "predictive typing"?
Wow, its almost like a short hand machine
👁👄👁 still till this day
I can comprehend the idea, which makes what they do pretty damn impressive!!
Is someone heavy breathing when filming this?!
Can computers do this more efficiently? Along with video and audio recording?
would voice recording be perfected enough to make sure to get accurate recording?
as if a normal keyboard wasn't already confusing enough
Holy shit I just found about stenotypes, what kind of witchcraft is this
That is so cool!
so it's like guitar chords for a typewriter?
...But not all letters are present on that keyboard? And does this work for other languages that use the same alphabet?
So we take shorthand notes and then fully transcribe it to English afterward with proper punctuation, etc.
Why not just video record the proceedings and make the transcription from that?
Man, look at all that Cheeto dust on them keys.
So... how many words per minute can this reach?
you mean sentences per minute. they don't type in words
I believe most court reporters have to pass a 225 words per minute with 95-98% accuracy test to get certification.
I want to learn this method and also how to get this device
This is so archaic.
im kinda triggered that its kinda dusty lol but damn my head hurts attempting to learn this
Couldn't hardly hear it
so.. its a macro machine?
Can anyone please mentioned what is this machine called? I am residing in India, and I want to buy this one. Please reply. Thanks
It's called a Stenotype.
is this not going to get obsolete at some points as the voice capturing sensors develop ?
i am pakistani student and i want to learn court reporting (stenography) . Is there any job opportunity in foriegn courtry for me.
Please guide.
me who tried to use this video as a crash course:
Crashed into the fuckin wall lmao
if you want to actually learn this, you can actually try it on a keyboard www.openstenoproject.org/ if your kb supports multiple keys pressed simultaneously
The fact this video didn't actually explain anything on how the machine works means this is not the job for you.
microphones were invented after this?
The ultimate vim user
Whyyy would you have howling wind as a production company's intro's sound (or whatever it is)...
This is weird people don’t just type fast?? The court doesn’t just record it and have the person rewatch it if any mistakes or missing parts then submit it?
I still don’t get it I quit..😒
How do they remember all the combinations?!! It boggles my brain 😳
Why not use video/audio recording? Definitely 100% accuracy of what was said in court.
Voice to text is actually really awful, nowhere as good as what most people think. It needs to be transcribed down as a text document and voice to text programs will mishear all the time and also can't handle cross-talk and other interruptions.
@@shelbyanderson761 Just plain video/audio recording, no text. That is what I meant. If you somehow need to turn them into text, just watch/hear the recordings and type or write them down. Plus, it doesn't have to be one person transcribing them.
@@roku_nine By law, court proceedings must be transcribed into text. And you clearly didn't read what I commented above on why transcribing at a later time doesn't work
Stenographer use audio recording to proof read and to achieve accuracy.
@@shelbyanderson761 You have no idea what you are talking about. Most closed captioning is done via cheap or open sourced speech to text. It is more accurate over the long run than some middle aged human's hearing.
It would be nice if the sound was adequate. This is way way too soft to hear, even in headphones.
I’m no further on
So neat
If "Students take note please" would be a tryhardable thing
Clear as mud
WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE LETTERS?!?!?!?
Darn, I can hardly hear her despite having the audio up full.
How
why not simply using an audio recorder?
That’s what I’m saying. Or talk-to-text functions
@56independent42 The year is 2023, not 1973. Speech to text is baby talk simple and ubiquitous.
I just don't get it, why don't they simply record the session and then type out of that audio.
by law they must be transcribed into text from the get-go.
How do i type sakaar or zoo using this