Thanks so much! And thank you for paving the way for much of this in the first place! I sincerely hope that I'm able to bring more attention the the Steno hobbyist community in the best ways possible, not to mention improve my personal skillset as well!
Hey I just wanted to say I'm about to start steno school, and your testing portion of the video really was able to show me how much I love chording. it just feels so cool to me, I've really found a passion and was able to follow along with you very well on your video. Thanks a ton
Before this, I had never heard of Stenography but I had always wondered how people kept up while doing live captioning... this 100% is a different realm of thinking completely when it comes to typing and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it with practice.
Just came across this video after binge watching other stenography videos lol.. I work as a part-time transcriptionist/captioner for audio files and video files but I’ve only ever known qwerty, so I figured the natural step would be to learn how to type quicker. I’ve taken such an interest in learning about stenography recently, I’ve completely fallen down the rabbit hole. Just yesterday, I started learning the basics of Gregg shorthand writing; My next step after that is to get a Uni Keyboard!
Sounds exciting, and now we’re learning together! That’s sort of how I started, just obsessing over improving my typing speed. I’m only at 5WPM on steno, so I have a great deal practice before I’m very fast.
I did pronounce Plover wrong, it apparently rhymes with "Lover" not "Clover". That said, I'm excited to get started, and looking forward to learning with everyone.
For fairness, while the devs of Plover use the "pluh-ver" pronunciation, "plover" as a word can actually be pronounced both ways. It's like the words "pecan" or "aunt".
There's a keyboard called CharaChorder that uses chording and simultaneous buttons, but with English, or whatever language you write in. Each button is a 5-way switch you can push in 4 directions and press in. You can type pretty quickly entering single letters, or you can type 300+ wpm using chords. The chords are fully customisable, so for example if you use the word "function" a lot, you could set the chord to be simultaneous press of "fcn". So you can build up your own version of the shorthand language, using whatever letters you find makes sense, for whatever words you tend to use. You can cover about 80% of written English with 400 chords. Pretty cool tech
I used a SOFT/HRUF keyboard 2 years ago and it took a couple months to get to around 50 wps. While interesting, I dropped it because it's useless to me as a programmer. Steno works well if you just want to write and keep on writing without having to edit anything and not having to use custom symbols / letters. Otherwise it's just going to get awkward. I'm 100+ (peak 115 or something) on QWERTY and typing speed is just not a bottleneck. Most of the time the bottleneck is thinking what I need to type.
I was writing a reply to this - but I think it got deleted. It's super interesting to hear that. I find that right now my bottleneck is speed, though I know it'll take time to even get up to where I am on a QWERTY board. I could see myself upgrading to an ortholinear board at some point to add a few more keys for shortcut customization, and I think Plover + Custom Dictionaries + Alfred (macOS) + BetterTouchTool (macOS) will cover most of the bases.
You can actually learn how to code using steno. There are key combinations for the symbols. The developer who created plover actually codes using steno. Not sure how fast it is or difficult it is to learn but if you stick to it you can definitely use it in your job and daily life.
@@andrewtran6987 I’m also learning a bit of JS and this was one of the encouraging things I saw about the steno community. I’ve seen some impressive examples of people who have built dictionaries for coding.
@@JarrenRocks very nice! I too am on my journey of learning to code. I got my uni keyboard last week and have been working on steno almost every day. Eventually I want to be able to code with steno but that is a ways away. I’ll be following along on your steno journey. I love your comment about future you thanking current you because that is exactly what I thought when I started my journey. It seems worth it to even be the same as my QWERTY speed because of the ergonomics alone.
@@andrewtran6987 That's the issue. You have to input a complicated chord to input a single symbol. Want to move your cursor to the left? Input a complicated chord. Meanwhile with QWERTY everything can be done with just a single key or single key + single modifier key. There is just so much extra you have to do if you want to use steno while coding.
I think about it all the time, but I made another video talking about why I chose not to keep going. A lot of steongraphers might be unhappy to hear it, but AI voice transcription has become really good and I'm using that now to get text out faster. it's not going to replace a person in a coutroom like ever, but it's good enough for me working across my computer
@@danh5637 I believe the characorder is faster and more flexible in many situations. I do have another video talking about if you should actually bother learning stenography or not.
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This is just not practical and in only very very niche jobs is it even worth learning a whole new language just to be able to type at the same speed I can and faster only if you have maxed out how fast you can type through LITERAL TRAINING. It doesn't take any training to be able to type at 80+ wpm and that's about the average I notice amongst friends who play games a lot. I can type at 130 wpm on my keyboard that has 10x more features than the 20 key keyboard what are you gonna do when you're trying to do anything on a computer that isn't just typing a word
Sorry but "Dvorak or whatever" is actually not the weird format around. It;s Qwerty that is the weird one. Just because it's a 100+ year old format that changed into some habit that's almost impossible to break doesn't mean it's good. It's a terrible keyboard format, everyone just got used to it as there's basically no competition as you cannot just go to a shop and buy something else like you would with bread or whatever. I dislike qwerty and use Colemak whenever I can but sometimes it's the only option and then you just adapt.
@@JarrenRocks Thanks. Before I purchase it, I’d like to know if while my machine is sent for serving if I can practice on this keyboard. Do I just plug in it and start practicing?
@@Rican431 I don't believe so. The software is needed for it to work. Honestly you should check out @MissSteno on TikTok. Their videos are far more in-depth about new tech, and I believe there is a steno board that is plug and play with custom dictionaries.
It's not autocorrect, every possible combination of keys is assigned to a specific word. The technology for this existed in typewriters before computers (and by extension; autocorrect) were even invented.
