Because all of the letters of the alphabet are not on the machine, you do the first half of the word on the left and the last half on the right, then it is spelled phonetically in some cases and spelled out in others. So A, is just A. B is P and W, since there is no B. There is a T, so it's T. So if you're going to write the word bat, you'd press PW, A, and T all at the same time. It's memorization and lots of practice. Basically learning an entire language and definitely takes great skill. On a typewriter, you type one letter at the time, but in steno, you can write an entire word and then there are what are called "briefs" for entire sentences. That way you can move quickly and write an entire sentence someone speaks all in one stroke. Here's the steno alphabet for you: A PW KR TK E is A B C D E. So to write cat, it'd be KRAT all in one stroke. :)
@@Knappa22 I have a music degree. It's cool but it's no different than a normal keyboard except it's in macros or pseudo-IPA. Tempting to try learning it by setting up a normal keyboard to do it but there's not really a point. I type at 120WPM but 200WPM sounds amazing.
Same, that is what baffled me too. They need shadowing maybe..0.1 second behind, and that is freaking hard for human memory to catch up, not to mention how chaotic court can be.
maybe they just deactivate their brain, like just focusing on the words they hear and not on their meaning? I do that a lot sometimes and I'm able to write by hand what people are saying (but ofc only a few phrases and not entire conversations)
As a court reporter, you can and should interrupt when speakers are messing up the record. Of course, we have to try to be professional when doing it no matter what you are thinking in your head. ;)
They can actually interrupt or excuse the court for double checking a statement or a testimony just in case they typed something wrong or missed something.
Stenographers are here to stay for the next 50 years unless a major break through is done within the voice recognition realm. For people saying "just use Google Voice": It's no where near as accurate as a human typing, also machines can't tell the differences between what different speakers are talking for citation. Once you start getting into different accents, even slurring words on the stand (such as a simple valley girl voice) voice recognition software starts messing up a lot. Also, just sounds in general that aren't talking might try to be translated, such as a cough or a thud.
You're right. There's also the trust issue of a readily identifiable, publicly recognised person being given the responsibility of accuracy and integrity in reporting a conversation. A piece of software may be just as accurate, but it's understood that an AI can be technically compromised- it's vitally important that the report be trusted beyond doubt. Further, court stenographers are self-employed, heavily unionised and retain the copyright to their work, which they typically sell the courts the rights to use. It's a huge industry, and jealously guarded by lobbyists.
Then you get so panicked from zoning out and trying to catch up that you make more mistakes and the whole court is still going and you can't say stop I might just start crying lol
You are allowed to stop speakers. Many times you're not even really paying close attention, or you're writing what they are saying and thinking about something else, like grocery list, and suddenly you hear, "Will the court reporter please read that answer back?" And you're thinking, gee, this is going to be a surprise to me, but it's all there. Brains are amazing things.
Much like a piano. One writes syllables and words in one stroke. My name is Don and a stenotypist would write that in one stroke rather than three strokes as one would with a keyboard typewriter, blah, blah.
My mom does this for a living so I grew up around this weird contraption, so nice to see people finally taking more of an interest in this important skill.
I'll be a first-generation stenographer in my family when I finish in a few years. It takes hours and hours of practice. A few minutes a day with consistency makes a big difference.
My late mom was a stenographer for 30 years. She only uses a yellow pad, pen, and recorder. Always thought stenos were so cool because they type so fast without looking at the keyboard and they also have their own alphabet.
Stenographer is probably the only multitasking job I could never master. And I was a script supervisor for a show once. You are checking time, making sure the scenes follow continuity, you are watching the scenes on a screen, listening to the scenes, you are following the script to make sure they match, you are timing the scenes, and you are making notes all at the same time. You are always busy doing something. The only break you get is when the director calls for lunch. So that says how gifted you have to be to be a stenographer. Because coming from a script supervisor, producer and scriptwriter? Stenographer requires talent that I don’t have! 😅
Wow!!! I am going to tell my son about it. He taught himself piano, has a fast vivid mind. He will listen to audiobooks while reading a separate book. It says it makes him relax. 😅😑 I’m thinking this would be up his alley. What are accurate wages? I’ve seen a lot of ranges and opinions online. Thanks!!
fun fact, i worked as an emergency dispatcher and we had to use very wonky looking keyboards. the keyboard was basically a Maltron Dual Hand 3D Ergonomic Keyboard. Funny enough I was scared I wouldn't be able to learn to use it, but when I did I found using a traditional keyboard to be even more difficult. It was hard to come home after a 12 hour shift to try and use my personal keyboard again
Actually here in India we use the writing method, so yes it needs more practice and accuracy then this machine and i can write at the speed of 100wpm but still there is long way to go.
As a person with APD (basically I'm a slow hearer) there's absolutely no way on Earth I would ever be able to do a job like that. Much respect to a lady who can do that.
I respect them too. I tried to learn by myself. If only I could master it , I would love to teach or train people. I doubt if that will ever be. I was suppose to train but our judge said I was needed in the office. I lost that opportunity.since Supreme Court issued me a machine, I tried to learn myself and that was so hard for me.
I'm really amazed. We learned typing in school using mechanical typewriters. Have to admit, I wasn't very good at it performance wise, but gave me a solid foundation for programming later :) But THIS is a whole different level, hats off to everyone working as a court reporter, or training to be one.
rap god apparently has on average 260 words per minute. the fastest stenographer apparently can type 360 words per minute and the minimum wpm to be a court reporter is 225 wpm but yeah the bursts would be difficult.
Ayo I still can't wrap my head around how she can type "ladies and gentlemen" with one stroke. Like, bro does that machine has a set combination of only a finite number of preset words that are used often in courts?
Depends. The steno gives you ability to define dictionaries so you can definite a certain word or sentence to a set of keys. It's not a single keystroke but a combination of a bunch. The keys on the steno on the other hand are already defined by nature, but you can define what a set of keystrokes will produce thus making the process pretty efficient and tailored to every user. Learning steno recently just for fun with a custom board I built and Plover for software from my gf who's already a stenographer and it's actually pretty cool, but also a headache
It's briefs you study and drill in your head while learning steno so it basically becomes a second language. Like while I was in school ladies and gentlemen would be-LAEGJ (because fo how the steno machine Is set up phonetically) If I ever blank out and forget my brief I would just type out as many words so I know what I was trying to say
I think this just comes as a natural consequence of being able to type in steno at all. Even normal typing, that involves a ton more keys, usually becomes so that you don’t need to look anymore. Imagine steno.
Fun fact: Even TV programs use stenographers! Not even joking by the way, when I was watching the TV one day at a local Applebee's, I noticed how the words were being not registered with a text to speech program, but instead somebody was using a stenographer to type out every single word they were saying on TV.
The letters are ordered from left to right in a way where you can press a combination of keys at once to make most words. Like with a the letters being arranged in the order STKPWHRAO * EUFRPBLGTSDZ if you press the left T, vowel E and right L key at the same time you would get T E L which means tell, and then press the vowel U and right S you would get U S or us. They also have personalized shortcuts for typing words that don't fit with this order of letters and the letters don't really have a connection with the word itself but aren't used by any other words.
The "i" is made by combining two keys: E/U at the same time. Left side of the machine is the beginning of the word sound. The right side is the ending sound. The vowel sound using that row. Writing syllable sounds, not spelling words. A software on their computer translates the keystrokes into English language. Sometimes they are the same, like S A T. Sometimes they are not: S EU T = SIT.
Many comments about Windows on a Mac. When Apple went to the Intel chip, using bootcamp you can use Windows on a Mac. Parallels also works but not as reliably. There are only a handful of companies that write and sell court reporting software, Stenograph being the largest, Eclipse being another. They do not run on Apple IOS, only Windows.
@@conservativedemocracyenjoyer how long do you think i'd take for your average joe to learn to do this? It took me like a week to gets the basics of touch typing so I'd say maybe a months of blood sweat and tears and a year to get up to speed
I remember when I was on a grand jury I asked the stenographer how her machine worked…she explained it to me like it all made sense and I’ll admit eveb after watching this video I’m still amazed at how they do it 😂
I have to remind myself that it's like playing the piano. I know where A-G are without needing it written on the keys, because I've played for so long. But still, watching the guy type on the steno machine without letters on the keys twists my brain!
@@bandanasaikia6048 Ya, so? I think you are missing the point. There have been very good microphones around for decades. There have been digital recorders around for decades. And yes, they have made inroads in the field. There used to be reporters in federal bankruptcy courts. No longer. They use digital recorders which the clerk has to operate. Does that explain why I did a 50-day trial in federal bankruptcy court in a very high profile matter? Fact is, it's also the human factor. The attorneys asked the Judge's permission to bring in their own reporter, in spite of the recording. The attorneys wanted a transcript of the proceedings within 10 minutes of the morning session breaking for lunch, and within 10 minutes of the afternoon session ending. A rough transcript, but a transcript. Thus far there is nothing in place that can do that other than a reporter. And by the end of the evening they have in hand a final proofread transcript. Each and every day. I recently did an arbitration involving veterinary drugs. There were 10 experts testifying, accents varying from Indian to Japanese and everything in between. What AI software that a law firm can purchase is going to understand that? I had to follow a witness down the hall to ask him what he said in a particular instance. Is a typist provided with the tapes at home going to be able to figure it out? Perhaps. But my transcript was provided that evening, for the attorneys to use that night in preparation of the next day's testimony. As I said elsewhere, in 1976 when I became a reporter I was hearing your mantra: Tape recorders will replace you. And yet, reporters continue to be in such high demand that agencies that "employ" reporters are sponsoring schools and students. What happens in a trial when a jury wants testimony read back while deliberating? Questions to which objections have been sustained are not to be read back. When a reporter is reading back, he/she can see an objection and skip that question. Who is going to go over a tape of hours of testimony and do that instantly? Reporters are also Notary Publics and administer oaths to the witness. Is a "very good" microphone going to do that? Reporters are the officers before whom the deposition is taken, a neutral party. I could go on and on but sensing your nastiness with the "ya so," I won't bother. Have it your way.
@@bandanasaikia6048 And by the way, excellent punctuation, or complete lack thereof, in your run-on sentence. That's another thing reporters must master. Let's see Siri or Alexa or any other AI insert correct commas, periods, semicolons, etc.
Ages ago when my mom was in school she learned handwritten stenography, if you ever see her old notebooks from school her notes just look like weird squiggles and dashes but they're entire phrases in just a few characters like these machines
@@vishalmanohar754 ah, my bad. So you convert it to Hindi. Wouldn't using a stenotype be easier so it automatically converts to whatever language you speak?
Just shows how flexible and vast human knowledge can get. Super interesting I never knew this at all. I have always had a wonder how they type so damn fast.
Would be problematic for analysis. You'd have to sit and listen to the whole recording to get a minor context later. Also, audio won't contain the speaker identifier, nor mention any document being passed around by speaker.
They do in many courts, especially ones handling less serious crimes. And in things like small claims or traffic court, they don't even bother. They still need somebody to transcribe recordings because a jury or an appellate court isn't going to want to sit through hours where the people are umm or ahhhing. They want it in writing so they can easily flip back and forth and look for the specific lines. But that doesn't happen to the whole recording, it's only done when somebody actually appeals and identifies important parts, or the jury wants a specific part read back to them.
18 XI Sci C Sachin Sundaresan One massive long run on sentence? It's not going to know that Bob Larson isn't talking anymore, it's the Judge, and then Stacey, and then Judge again...! Nevermind accents and mistakes?
In the Philippines we just use pen and paper bc nowadays that's the only one they teach at school. More tenured Stenographers know how to use the machine but again it's just being printed on paper real time like a typewriter, which means only the Stenographer can understand his or her own notes. What I personally do when it's a whole day hearing, I just type on Notepad on a computer since I can type words faster than I can write them in stenography, and besides not only writing is more exhausting if you do it for the entire day, I can also readback better in Notepad whereas I can't understand my steno scribbles anymore once I already wrote a lot. 😅
I think the easiest way to understand stenographing is if you play games that has a lot of abilities but few keybinds, you just combine buttons to make a new keybind.
While there is a standard steno language each stenographer has their own combinations that they favor. Also just did a quick search for how many individual combinations you can make with 26 characters apparently it’s 67,108,863 combinations composed of 26 spaces filled with 26 unique characters with no repetition. which is mind boggling both that there’s that many combinations and that either a person or a computer figured that answer out.
I feel like I understand it even less after seeing it in action.
Hahah right? Before I just assumed they were super fast typists, and I was happy with that assumption. Then I realized they are fast wizard people
Yea me too i always thought they used a regular keyboard and just typed really fast
Yup. I'm even more confusion now
Because all of the letters of the alphabet are not on the machine, you do the first half of the word on the left and the last half on the right, then it is spelled phonetically in some cases and spelled out in others. So A, is just A. B is P and W, since there is no B. There is a T, so it's T. So if you're going to write the word bat, you'd press PW, A, and T all at the same time. It's memorization and lots of practice. Basically learning an entire language and definitely takes great skill. On a typewriter, you type one letter at the time, but in steno, you can write an entire word and then there are what are called "briefs" for entire sentences. That way you can move quickly and write an entire sentence someone speaks all in one stroke. Here's the steno alphabet for you: A PW KR TK E is A B C D E. So to write cat, it'd be KRAT all in one stroke. :)
@@kathryntaylor6080 random stranger of the internet, what’s reserved for KAT?
It blows my mind how they can learn all the combinations and hit them so precisely
Muscle memory, same thing with musical instruments
As a pianist I say its easy.
@@MegaMech I’m a pianist as well (ABRSM Grade 7) but I still think these stenographers are great!
@@Knappa22 I have a music degree. It's cool but it's no different than a normal keyboard except it's in macros or pseudo-IPA. Tempting to try learning it by setting up a normal keyboard to do it but there's not really a point. I type at 120WPM but 200WPM sounds amazing.
For money a person can do anything
Its not the typing for me... its being able to catch every word people are saying and then being able to type it out
ikr that's what stresses me abt it
Oh yes this is some sort of special skill. I make minutes of meetings and I still have a hard time catching up.
So the whole thing
Haha
But yeah it's insane
Same, that is what baffled me too. They need shadowing maybe..0.1 second behind, and that is freaking hard for human memory to catch up, not to mention how chaotic court can be.
maybe they just deactivate their brain, like just focusing on the words they hear and not on their meaning? I do that a lot sometimes and I'm able to write by hand what people are saying (but ofc only a few phrases and not entire conversations)
If I’m ever in court I’ll make sure to speak slowly
Hahahhahahahah
Maybe you would end up making him lose his pace and Getting him angry lol
Thank you in advance. Peace.
It actually makes it worse for them.
You're a good person
“Girl you’re thicker than a bowl of oatmeal.”
😂😂🤣
LOL
👉🏾👨🏾👉🏾
Omg🤣
🤣🤣🤣
If i had that job ud often hear me yelling.... "HEY, HEY, slow down, this is not a speech race. now just repeat your last sentence...... ?"
As a court reporter, you can and should interrupt when speakers are messing up the record. Of course, we have to try to be professional when doing it no matter what you are thinking in your head. ;)
They can actually interrupt or excuse the court for double checking a statement or a testimony just in case they typed something wrong or missed something.
Please never shorten "you would" to "ud" ever again
@@EnderShard hahaha exactly. I had to read the sentence a couple of times before understand that ud was "you would" XD
@@nadhirahjalil2417 🤣
Stenographers are here to stay for the next 50 years unless a major break through is done within the voice recognition realm. For people saying "just use Google Voice": It's no where near as accurate as a human typing, also machines can't tell the differences between what different speakers are talking for citation. Once you start getting into different accents, even slurring words on the stand (such as a simple valley girl voice) voice recognition software starts messing up a lot. Also, just sounds in general that aren't talking might try to be translated, such as a cough or a thud.
You're right. There's also the trust issue of a readily identifiable, publicly recognised person being given the responsibility of accuracy and integrity in reporting a conversation. A piece of software may be just as accurate, but it's understood that an AI can be technically compromised- it's vitally important that the report be trusted beyond doubt. Further, court stenographers are self-employed, heavily unionised and retain the copyright to their work, which they typically sell the courts the rights to use. It's a huge industry, and jealously guarded by lobbyists.
YES!
50 years ? i dont think so
the software is improving fast
machine learning will be the death of the stenograph
Absolutely this is a type of coding and even the teacher of it can't decode except the one who writes it.
@@hamadaj8081 She said 50 years UNLESS... you're just repeating what she said.
Damn need that for gaming
what games are you playing where you need to type at 240 wpm?
english2me Typing Attack
@@english2me694 Call of duty modern warfare, too many toxics.
LOL-
Roblox roleplay games
Imagine having a brainfart moment then losing track and trying desperately to catch up.
Then you get so panicked from zoning out and trying to catch up that you make more mistakes and the whole court is still going and you can't say stop
I might just start crying lol
You are allowed to stop speakers. Many times you're not even really paying close attention, or you're writing what they are saying and thinking about something else, like grocery list, and suddenly you hear, "Will the court reporter please read that answer back?" And you're thinking, gee, this is going to be a surprise to me, but it's all there. Brains are amazing things.
then everyone would read the text saying "yada yada .... I have no idea what I missed"
Looks like they could be pro pianists with that kind of memorisation and finger skills.
As a pianist, i couldn't really agree with this. Some things about both of them are just too far different from viewing it technical-wise.
I came to find this exact comment. They really be looking like they're playing a piano
@@NakanoHitori This comes about as close to playing piano as playing guitar hero. ;)
@@Quotenwagnerianer ok whatever
@@NakanoHitori someone's a salty Sally.
I don't know which one is more surprising, the stenographer or the Windows 10 in a Macbook Pro.
Bootcamp lol
The only usefull apps in windows is x86 apps.
It will be dead if forced to use UWP
the touchbar is somehow working
@@egg9758 I bet they were forced to install Windows 10 on it just because the translation app is not available for macOS.
This told me nothing about how it actually works
Much like a piano. One writes syllables and words in one stroke. My name is Don and a stenotypist would write that in one stroke rather than three strokes as one would with a keyboard typewriter, blah, blah.
My mom does this for a living so I grew up around this weird contraption, so nice to see people finally taking more of an interest in this important skill.
I grew up with it too. My sister has been doing it since I was in elementary.
I'll be a first-generation stenographer in my family when I finish in a few years. It takes hours and hours of practice. A few minutes a day with consistency makes a big difference.
My late mom was a stenographer for 30 years. She only uses a yellow pad, pen, and recorder. Always thought stenos were so cool because they type so fast without looking at the keyboard and they also have their own alphabet.
Stenographer is probably the only multitasking job I could never master. And I was a script supervisor for a show once. You are checking time, making sure the scenes follow continuity, you are watching the scenes on a screen, listening to the scenes, you are following the script to make sure they match, you are timing the scenes, and you are making notes all at the same time. You are always busy doing something. The only break you get is when the director calls for lunch. So that says how gifted you have to be to be a stenographer. Because coming from a script supervisor, producer and scriptwriter? Stenographer requires talent that I don’t have! 😅
Been at this job myself now for 46 years and LOVE IT‼️⚖️
1973.
Wow!!! I am going to tell my son about it. He taught himself piano, has a fast vivid mind. He will listen to audiobooks while reading a separate book. It says it makes him relax. 😅😑
I’m thinking this would be up his alley.
What are accurate wages? I’ve seen a lot of ranges and opinions online. Thanks!!
@@Tara_thatonegirl in my country they are paid good. Plus the transcript that litigants pay.
You are great! My sister loved it so much that she has done it since 1964 and retired like 6 years ago. 51 years.
@@Tara_thatonegirl It's 11 months later now. Was your son interested?
fun fact, i worked as an emergency dispatcher and we had to use very wonky looking keyboards. the keyboard was basically a Maltron Dual Hand 3D Ergonomic Keyboard. Funny enough I was scared I wouldn't be able to learn to use it, but when I did I found using a traditional keyboard to be even more difficult. It was hard to come home after a 12 hour shift to try and use my personal keyboard again
These guys are Amazing, anyone here doing this or learning this, Hats off to you guys
Since 1973.
@@joned1000 you are amazing.
Actually here in India we use the writing method, so yes it needs more practice and accuracy then this machine and i can write at the speed of 100wpm but still there is long way to go.
Now THAT is a job I would never be able to do.
Same here I have way too many brain farts
I zone out so easy I can't do a job that requires more than my physical presence. My mental presence floats right tf off
Yes, you can. Just train and practice.
People who can actually use these machines are a rare breed! I couldn’t do this if my life depended on it! Amazing to watch them do that.
You and me both!
If I randomly press the keys, I bet I can write a book in 20 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
@@Gigasimo456 ruclips.net/video/RTQr6WN0VwQ/видео.html
In 60 seconds, I have a new level of respect for stenographers. Holy bloody hell, that's impressive.
As a person with APD (basically I'm a slow hearer) there's absolutely no way on Earth I would ever be able to do a job like that. Much respect to a lady who can do that.
I respect them too. I tried to learn by myself. If only I could master it , I would love to teach or train people. I doubt if that will ever be. I was suppose to train but our judge said I was needed in the office. I lost that opportunity.since Supreme Court issued me a machine, I tried to learn myself and that was so hard for me.
I'm really amazed. We learned typing in school using mechanical typewriters. Have to admit, I wasn't very good at it performance wise, but gave me a solid foundation for programming later :) But THIS is a whole different level, hats off to everyone working as a court reporter, or training to be one.
Now imagine the stress and pain of that person if Eminem is giving statement there
funny thing is that every word would rime too
Rhyme*
Aaaa, suma-luma-duma...
I think he would be forced to drop his uncultured way of speaking
rap god apparently has on average 260 words per minute. the fastest stenographer apparently can type 360 words per minute and the minimum wpm to be a court reporter is 225 wpm but yeah the bursts would be difficult.
Imagine can be typing YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH! in the court room. Stenographer ultimate dream and bucket list...
THIS WHOLE COURTROOM IS OUT OF ORDER!
NO SELF-RESPECTING SOUTHERNER EATS INSTANT GRITS!
Ayo I still can't wrap my head around how she can type "ladies and gentlemen" with one stroke. Like, bro does that machine has a set combination of only a finite number of preset words that are used often in courts?
What if the person speaking adds “ladies and gentlemen of the court, like how would they type the additional word by the time they find the shortcut.
Depends. The steno gives you ability to define dictionaries so you can definite a certain word or sentence to a set of keys. It's not a single keystroke but a combination of a bunch.
The keys on the steno on the other hand are already defined by nature, but you can define what a set of keystrokes will produce thus making the process pretty efficient and tailored to every user.
Learning steno recently just for fun with a custom board I built and Plover for software from my gf who's already a stenographer and it's actually pretty cool, but also a headache
Most likely
There are many "briefs" they use that enables them to stroke phrases at one time.
It's briefs you study and drill in your head while learning steno so it basically becomes a second language. Like while I was in school ladies and gentlemen would be-LAEGJ (because fo how the steno machine Is set up phonetically)
If I ever blank out and forget my brief I would just type out as many words so I know what I was trying to say
I'm a pretty smart guy.. I'm highly versed in modern technology. But I cannot for the life of me wrap my mind around this concept.
Me either lol
Same 😆
im getting a dejavu of your comment.. im pretty sure i saw a comment like this years ago.. Did u copy paste this?
We write words and phrases, using only hotkeys. You're welcome.
@@wott7 what for?
"DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED?"
"YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!"
Steno: 0__0
Having worked as a corporate litigation secretary I'm looking into learning stenography.
Everybody gangsta until they look away from the steno machine and can still type at super high precision
@Kilo Byte Likewise. I still don't understand the "Nobody:” meme.
I think this just comes as a natural consequence of being able to type in steno at all. Even normal typing, that involves a ton more keys, usually becomes so that you don’t need to look anymore. Imagine steno.
This would be amazing to combat toxic players...
...or perhaps to be one.
Just knew about stenography today. Amazed with how it works!
Even as a Sign Language Interpreter we have respect for each other. No enmity.
Tendinitis Speedrun Any% WR
I imagine part of the training is how to type for extended periods without doing harm.
This is so much slower than regular typing tho, I don’t think that’s an issue.
Impressive. I want to try it. I feel like learning curve is doable.
Imagine one day ben shapiro goes to court...
F for the court reporter's fingers
No,imagine all your houses flooded,would u not sell them and move away?
They would need more then one person
“Can you repeat that? I forgot the combo for DRY PUSSY WIFE.”
I think they'll just record it by audio and then have it typed out later instead
Fun fact: Even TV programs use stenographers! Not even joking by the way, when I was watching the TV one day at a local Applebee's, I noticed how the words were being not registered with a text to speech program, but instead somebody was using a stenographer to type out every single word they were saying on TV.
In Germany we didn't use Steno anymore at the Courts🙈 But we have to be able to write at least 2.900 letters within 10 Minutes on the Keyboard
For real I just don't get it. How does the program know which words you're trying to make? There is no I key so how do you replicate the I sound?
The letters are ordered from left to right in a way where you can press a combination of keys at once to make most words. Like with a the letters being arranged in the order STKPWHRAO * EUFRPBLGTSDZ if you press the left T, vowel E and right L key at the same time you would get T E L which means tell, and then press the vowel U and right S you would get U S or us. They also have personalized shortcuts for typing words that don't fit with this order of letters and the letters don't really have a connection with the word itself but aren't used by any other words.
The "i" is made by combining two keys: E/U at the same time. Left side of the machine is the beginning of the word sound. The right side is the ending sound. The vowel sound using that row. Writing syllable sounds, not spelling words. A software on their computer translates the keystrokes into English language. Sometimes they are the same, like S A T. Sometimes they are not: S EU T = SIT.
Many comments about Windows on a Mac. When Apple went to the Intel chip, using bootcamp you can use Windows on a Mac. Parallels also works but not as reliably. There are only a handful of companies that write and sell court reporting software, Stenograph being the largest, Eclipse being another. They do not run on Apple IOS, only Windows.
So basically learning another language.
This is a level of multitasking I can never achieve. And I have done lots of multitasking jobs. I have much respect for stenographers!
Imagine how efficient firms could be if everybody used these 🤔
The amount of money that would take though......
@@conservativedemocracyenjoyer how long do you think i'd take for your average joe to learn to do this? It took me like a week to gets the basics of touch typing so I'd say maybe a months of blood sweat and tears and a year to get up to speed
@@xtdycxtfuv9353 years 😂
This seems like a very difficult job
Modern day enigma machine
My mom is a court stenographer for 40yrs. And she does it without using machine. Still this tech is impressive.
Does she use shorthand? I did that too.
I remember when I was on a grand jury I asked the stenographer how her machine worked…she explained it to me like it all made sense and I’ll admit eveb after watching this video I’m still amazed at how they do it 😂
I would panic if it were me
I need this for Typer Shark
My brain does not compute on any level. Amazing skills!
I had this class in high school, after lots of failed tests it took me one more year to pass stenography
It is good they offer this in school. I can teach Greg shorthand. In my country only court employees are trained with stenotype machines.
I've always wanted to know about this. Really cool
bruh that man misspelled 1 word, had to delete and catch up 2 sentences. RIP if he ever sneezes
Wow I feel slow just thinking about it
“There are no letters on it”
“You can combine different letters”
Eh???
I think she should have said "You can combine different phonetic sounds", because that seems to be what the keys represent.
I have to remind myself that it's like playing the piano. I know where A-G are without needing it written on the keys, because I've played for so long. But still, watching the guy type on the steno machine without letters on the keys twists my brain!
Stenographers vs Eminem
that will be epic battle
There is a video somewhere on RUclips of a very good stenographer writing as rappers rap. Not ez.
I’ve always wondered how the heck these work thank you!
When I was a stenographer we have to wright everything lol.
Like the brothers who made the airplane? 🤔
@@sjokomelk no, like the phoenix :p
The technology is absolutely amazing!
A microphone, a very good microphone.. would do the job I guess
true, after than these guys will lose their jobs
Microphones have been around for how long? Stenographers have been around since the early 1900s.
@@mdjak3686 ya so? that doesn't mean anything nowadays ais have been replacing most of the jobs that were from around 1900 does that do anything?
@@bandanasaikia6048 Ya, so? I think you are missing the point. There have been very good microphones around for decades. There have been digital recorders around for decades. And yes, they have made inroads in the field. There used to be reporters in federal bankruptcy courts. No longer. They use digital recorders which the clerk has to operate. Does that explain why I did a 50-day trial in federal bankruptcy court in a very high profile matter? Fact is, it's also the human factor. The attorneys asked the Judge's permission to bring in their own reporter, in spite of the recording. The attorneys wanted a transcript of the proceedings within 10 minutes of the morning session breaking for lunch, and within 10 minutes of the afternoon session ending. A rough transcript, but a transcript. Thus far there is nothing in place that can do that other than a reporter. And by the end of the evening they have in hand a final proofread transcript. Each and every day. I recently did an arbitration involving veterinary drugs. There were 10 experts testifying, accents varying from Indian to Japanese and everything in between. What AI software that a law firm can purchase is going to understand that? I had to follow a witness down the hall to ask him what he said in a particular instance. Is a typist provided with the tapes at home going to be able to figure it out? Perhaps. But my transcript was provided that evening, for the attorneys to use that night in preparation of the next day's testimony.
As I said elsewhere, in 1976 when I became a reporter I was hearing your mantra: Tape recorders will replace you. And yet, reporters continue to be in such high demand that agencies that "employ" reporters are sponsoring schools and students.
What happens in a trial when a jury wants testimony read back while deliberating? Questions to which objections have been sustained are not to be read back. When a reporter is reading back, he/she can see an objection and skip that question. Who is going to go over a tape of hours of testimony and do that instantly?
Reporters are also Notary Publics and administer oaths to the witness. Is a "very good" microphone going to do that? Reporters are the officers before whom the deposition is taken, a neutral party. I could go on and on but sensing your nastiness with the "ya so," I won't bother. Have it your way.
@@bandanasaikia6048 And by the way, excellent punctuation, or complete lack thereof, in your run-on sentence. That's another thing reporters must master. Let's see Siri or Alexa or any other AI insert correct commas, periods, semicolons, etc.
0:37 literally looks like she’s playing piano 💀
I talk so damn fast if I was ever in court I wouldn’t make it out alive bruh
Judge would ask you to slow down and eventually find you in contempt of court if you refuse.
I feel even more stupid than I am
Dave chappelle brought me here
Looking for a "Home Stenographer"? ;)
Me too!!!
Me to swear to god😂😭
I was looking for the travel stenographer 😉
That is unbelievably impressive on all accounts.
This woman has the most sensual voice ever.
Flip simp calm down.
Ages ago when my mom was in school she learned handwritten stenography, if you ever see her old notebooks from school her notes just look like weird squiggles and dashes but they're entire phrases in just a few characters like these machines
I learned that too and I took proceedings in it.
Nice in India we still use pen and copy to write shorthand.
Why is that?
We can write 170 to 200 wpm with hands and that speed is more than enough for any steno job.
but wouldn't you still need to convert that to regular English after transcribing?
@@juancarlospanlilio9785 why we convert into english we speak hindi read hindi and we write hindi.
@@vishalmanohar754 ah, my bad. So you convert it to Hindi.
Wouldn't using a stenotype be easier so it automatically converts to whatever language you speak?
Me: "Hold up, your Honor." *backspaces feverishly*
Interesting.
My grandmother's aunt done this job, in fact she was at the Nuremberg trials really would love to find the stuff she typed out.
@fallenzz Nope, she was born here in England.
She's so cute!
Right!
Just shows how flexible and vast human knowledge can get. Super interesting I never knew this at all. I have always had a wonder how they type so damn fast.
why don’t we just digitally record the audio of all trials…
Would be problematic for analysis. You'd have to sit and listen to the whole recording to get a minor context later. Also, audio won't contain the speaker identifier, nor mention any document being passed around by speaker.
They do in many courts, especially ones handling less serious crimes. And in things like small claims or traffic court, they don't even bother. They still need somebody to transcribe recordings because a jury or an appellate court isn't going to want to sit through hours where the people are umm or ahhhing. They want it in writing so they can easily flip back and forth and look for the specific lines. But that doesn't happen to the whole recording, it's only done when somebody actually appeals and identifies important parts, or the jury wants a specific part read back to them.
What about an A.I. software which automatically types everything while listening?
@@realeyes8199 because that ai still needs work, it can make lots of mistakes still
18 XI Sci C Sachin Sundaresan One massive long run on sentence? It's not going to know that Bob Larson isn't talking anymore, it's the Judge, and then Stacey, and then Judge again...!
Nevermind accents and mistakes?
Going to go back to school again for this next year and it's so crazy to me to think that I could be that fast.
Literally thought this was parody. Feels like a Tim and Eric Cinco product
Stenographic is well known for decades, some schools teach basics for those, who want attend college or university.
This job will soon be replaced by some sophisticated voice recognition software
How interesting!! So much focus needed…
People before steno machines invented:
OSU players.
I like how the automatic subtitles have basically 99% accuracy
she is cutte
Wow! So much respect
I watched this and I still don’t have a fucking clue how they do it.
This just solidified my suspicious that They're witches. 🤔🤭
No idea why this was reccomended but damn I love learning new things
In the Philippines we just use pen and paper bc nowadays that's the only one they teach at school. More tenured Stenographers know how to use the machine but again it's just being printed on paper real time like a typewriter, which means only the Stenographer can understand his or her own notes. What I personally do when it's a whole day hearing, I just type on Notepad on a computer since I can type words faster than I can write them in stenography, and besides not only writing is more exhausting if you do it for the entire day, I can also readback better in Notepad whereas I can't understand my steno scribbles anymore once I already wrote a lot. 😅
This left me with more questions than answers
I still just don't understand how anybody can make this work. I'm thoroughly impressed with this skill set.
I always had such a fascination with those machines
But you can also use speech to text software and edit it later.
Can't do that, has to be 100% accurate at the time.
Dayum they learn a whole new language.
I think the easiest way to understand stenographing is if you play games that has a lot of abilities but few keybinds, you just combine buttons to make a new keybind.
My fingers and wrists are cramping from watching this lol. Yall got skills if you can do this
steno skills are so cool .
Human 2000 years in the future discovering stenography.
"It's an alien"
It'a my first time seeing this machine. It's wonderful and interesting.
The woman's voice is cute.
Buff Mindblowing👌🏻 It might be like playing piano or something similar🤷🏻♂️
I need this for my college lectures
This is like trying to find a code and translate it to a language.
Imagine how much combination exist in there?
While there is a standard steno language each stenographer has their own combinations that they favor. Also just did a quick search for how many individual combinations you can make with 26 characters apparently it’s 67,108,863 combinations composed of 26 spaces filled with 26 unique characters with no repetition. which is mind boggling both that there’s that many combinations and that either a person or a computer figured that answer out.