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stenotype
[ sten-uh-tahyp ]
noun
- a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- the symbols typed in one stroke on this machine.
Stenotype
/ ˈstɛnəˌtaɪp /
noun
- a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches, etc, in a phonetic shorthand
- any machine resembling this
- the phonetic symbol typed in one stroke of such a machine
Word History and Origins
Origin of stenotype1
Example Sentences
She came, as all her readers have noticed, from the Ozarks, the daughter of a judge and a court reporter whose stenotype’s imprint adorns the interior pages of her 1998 mostly-prose poem “Deepstep Come Shining.”
Brought up in a large unaestheticized house littered with Congressional Records and stenotype paper by a Chancery Judge and The Court’s hazel-eyed Reporter who took down his every word which was law.
I use a stenotype, or shorthand machine, connected to a computer that contains captioning software.
To bad his stenotype machine wasn’t connected to the Internet.
The record for a stenographer is 260 WPM, but the translation of words into key-presses and then back into words is idiosyncratic, and so the cryptic curtain of letters produced by a stenotype machine has to be transcribed by a person, or by an expensive computerized stenotype, which internally translates the notations into plain language, using a personalized dictionary for each stenographer’s abbreviations.
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