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Coding JavaScript with a Steno Machine(youtube.com)
2 points by ploversteno 10y ago|0 comments
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by ploversteno 10y ago
I'm certified at 260 words per minute, but even so Jonathan Coulton's "I Feel Fantastic" was too much for me. I only got 77% accuracy. Can you do better? Download the 4-song demo of Steno Hero at http://stenoa
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Stenographer Gets Ass Kicked by Screaming Fast Typing Game(player.vimeo.com)
1 points by ploversteno 10y ago|1 comments
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by ploversteno 12y ago
Each finger can press up to two keys at a time (top row, bottom row, or both rows together). Right pinky can press up to four at a time (two rows plus two columns), and right index can press up to three at a time (two rows plus asterisk col
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by ploversteno 12y ago
Weird. You're right; it doesn't work. Must have something to do with the layer Plover's using for keyboard output. That's frustrating. I'll bring it up with the developers.
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by ploversteno 12y ago
It's open source, but you'd have to ask the developer to send you an apk, I think. Or compile your own, I guess: https://github.com/brentn/StenoIME
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by ploversteno 12y ago
It would be cool to see a video demonstrating this using the same snippet of code! If you decide to make one, let me know, and I'll link it on the Plover blog.
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by ploversteno 12y ago
Beautiful analogy. I couldn't agree more.
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by ploversteno 12y ago
You really need a minimum of 16-key rollover to do steno properly. Otherwise you're just really constrained in the number of chords you're able to write.
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by ploversteno 12y ago
I've thought about having a sort of collaborative dictionary, updated in realtime with entries weighted by how frequently people use them over a certain period of time. I'm not sure how practical it would actually turn out to be,
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by ploversteno 12y ago
The Android app is actually pretty decent; you use it Swype-style, but rather than employing Swype's predictive method, it's 100% deterministic, so you know what you're going to get every time. https://play.google.
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by ploversteno 12y ago
Yeah, one of the things I love about steno (as opposed to predictive systems like voice recognition or autocorrect) is its 100% determinism. That tiny pause of hesitation to wait and see whether a word has come out properly is so completely
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by ploversteno 12y ago
Ooh, hadn't heard of this before. Great find! Thanks!
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by ploversteno 12y ago
It was originally inspired by Typestriker, which I used quite a bit to get me through my early days in steno school: http://www.acid-play.com/download/typestriker
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by ploversteno 12y ago
There are a few action arcade-style games on qwertysteno.com: http://qwertysteno.com/Games/ But yeah, making a comprehensive steno tutorial video game is pretty much at the top of our list right now. We've even go
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by ploversteno 12y ago
I'm in talks with a small NYC private school to possibly start some middle schoolers on an informal course in steno. We'll see if they take to it. I'm hoping it'll be like ducks to water. Stay tuned!
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by ploversteno 12y ago
Also, here's a transcript of the PyCon video for people who don't have time to watch it: http://openstenoproject.org/transcripts/pycon-2013-video-tra...
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by ploversteno 12y ago
Thanks very much! Plover also has its own Wiki: http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Main_Page
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by ploversteno 12y ago
Hot off the press: Please view my latest steno coding video, where I transcribe a somewhat longer snippet of Python from the Plover codebase! http://youtu.be/jRFKZGWrmrM I'm still just a Python novice, so obviously I d
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by ploversteno 12y ago
A little more commentary on the difference between realtime stenography and automated speech recognition: http://blog.stenoknight.com/2012/05/cart-problem-solving-ser...
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by ploversteno 15y ago
Not really. When I'm in steno mode, it's like I'm speaking to myself in a different dialect, but when I'm in English mode it's all normal again. Like, this is how I would pronounce the previous sentence in steno: When I'm n stoin mode, ts l
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by ploversteno 15y ago
That's a particularly clear-cut example, but what about something like "my great" and "migrate"? 33 million hits for one, 37 million hits for the other. They're both pretty likely to come up, so it's important to have separate strokes for b
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by ploversteno 15y ago
Because all proprietary steno software builds in a 1.5-second buffer between when the stenographer enters the stroke and when the stroke is transmitted to an external program. Imagine having to wait 1.5 seconds for each command to execute.
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by ploversteno 15y ago
True, sadly, but it's also unfortunately true that a lot of people in steno schools arguably shouldn't be there, because they don't have the technical or language processing skills that stenographers need to do their jobs. Virtually all tho
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by ploversteno 15y ago
Yup! Ploversteno = Mirabai Knight, cofounder of the Plover Project, professional stenographer and novice Python coder.
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by ploversteno 15y ago
It takes students in vocational steno schools six months to a year. As of now, they're our only source of hard data, because steno has been financially inaccessible to people not pursuing it as a career. My hunch is that a steno tutorial ga
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by ploversteno 15y ago
Spot on. ASL is a really beautiful language, but it's incredibly difficult to learn, partly because its grammar is spacial rather than linear, which can be a real mindbending experience for speakers of oral languages. I've been learning it
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by ploversteno 15y ago
Source: http://research.gallaudet.edu/Demographics/deaf-US.php http://www.hearingconnection.org/hearing_loss_statistics.htm... 2% is actually a little generous based on this data, but I like to round up. 35 to 36 million people report s
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by ploversteno 15y ago
Thank you! It's so refreshing to talk with coders about this stuff; non-computery types so often assume it's a solved problem, because they don't realize how lossy a format spoken language actually is.
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by ploversteno 15y ago
Also useful: http://stenoknight.com/plover/qwertytosteno.png

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