200+wpm with this? | Stenography & Plover

this is a really impressive video to make because i'm not even that fast originally this video was supposed to be made next year except that peter from stenohiboz.com was so kind to send me his stenography uni hobbyist keyboard and instead of asking me to review it he asked me to make a video promoting plova which is the video i planned for next year when i was actually good at what i was doing thanks peter alright so you must have looked at the thumbnail and thought to yourself what the hell am i looking at and you're completely right what is this this is stenography also known as steno not to be confused if the gun is the gun no graffiti is the kind of gruff stunt no coffee stegonography which is the cipher thing no i am not decoding codes and cracking stuff just yet i'm only learning a new way to type so what is tenno steno is the fastest way to type it is not actually typing we are chording words we call them chords because on a standard machine you press down multiple keys down at once just like a piano to output a word this means that you can go at incredible speeds because each press isn't it's a word photography is mostly used in courtrooms and live tv broadcasts because the thing about steno is that record to the sound of the world storeography is meant to be as fast as the human speaker the average person speaks at 180 words per minute to 220 words per minute and that's ridiculously fast especially considering that even the fastest typing layouts like i don't know is divora colomek and workmen fast i don't know but well even if you were fast on them it'd be really difficult to break through the 200 words per minute barrier even if you were fast enough it's very difficult to maintain that speed for hours on end which is what courtroom writers are supposed to maintain so if you ever unfortunately appear or wind up in a courtroom take a look at the stenographer they're not actually typing on a keyboard and since i'm not fast i'll be showing clips of other people going fast just to demonstrate how quick it is do a demonstration here using a youtube video to make a youtube wow why don't you showing the document that is included here and does bear their signatures then there won't be any confusion thank you very much i am sorry your honor mine is a xerox as you can observe what document are you about to show the witness now it is still number ten i mean which particular copy of it it is mr beacon's on set your honor i believe he has defendant's copy and i think your honor yours is just a makeshift set that was prepared afterwards his copy is an exact copy as is mine i got the tail end of the dog i won't bother the debate about if stenography is going to be replaced by speech to text because i'm not here for that and what i know at the moment is that speech to text is pretty bad especially when it comes to me because of my accent google speech to text is not very good the auto generated captions they usually have a mistake every one two sentences it's not accurate and i need to subtitle my videos now for the longest time stenography has been blocked off from the general public behind college and university classes because the only way to learn stenography is to professionally learn it and become a stenographer not to mention that you had to buy the really expensive machines which are on average three thousand dollars and the latest newest coolest machine is five thousand dollars and i really wanted but i don't think i'm going to be able to get it in my lifetime but today that's not the case anymore you can learn steno at home with your own keyboard with no extra machines required all the resources you need to learn zeno is online and for free as on how to steno on your computer you just need to install the open source program called plover i'll explain more about this later now the question how exactly does steno work the layout looks really complicated at first but it's actually a lot simpler than you think it is for example you might be wondering why there are repeated letters on the left and right side of the keyboard but i swear this makes sense please bear with me how the layout works is that whatever on the left side of the keyboard is for the starting sounds of words and whatever is on the right side of the keyboard is for the ending sound of words and then you have the vowels at the bottom in the middle because most words have the vowel sound in the middle of the word even if it ends with a vowel when you spell it out like cake the layout actually follows external order as shown here it is strictly left to right up down so if i wanted to write the word sad i would press the left s key and then a and then the right d key and then set will come out and the thing is if i did something out of order it would not show up correctly like if i wanted to quote the word port but i pressed the keys in the order of opt instead the word that comes out instead will be opt because the keyboard recognizes keys from the order of left to right you might also be wondering about the missing keys on the keyboard as you can see there is no i key in the vowel role and many other letters are also missing on zeno we can press a combination of keys to get a letter or sound that isn't already present on the keyboard so to get the sound for i you press e and u together in total it sounds like a lot of things to digest and memorize and it looks really daunting and it looks like a gigantic macro keyboard but it's not because there is theory behind how steno works the theory is basically how certain keys or sounds works together it's really just re-teaching you the english language except purely frenetically but it's not as hard as how it sounds like because you already know how words sound don't you here's a quick example these are all the key lines for the different vowel sounds that you can make on a steno keyboard so how do i stroke the word white make a guess if you guessed the fourth answer you're completely correct yeah you've technically thought of your first word in steno it's white i almost forgot to mention the asterix key and the hashtag which is the number bar the extrus key on its own will work like a backspace but when used with chords it will output a different word from what you're calling normally without the asterisk key this is to differentiate between words that sound the same so in other words would be chorded the same on steno an example would be c c c c ceases and ceases yeah they are all differently sounded usually instead oh the words that don't need astrix key are the words that are more oftenly used as for the number bar that's another key specifically just for numbers so you press the hashtag or number bar with another key and let go you'll get a number and now for the last bit of steno briefs so what are briefs a lot of times in english language some words are really really long like immediately and those are multiple syllables and the word immediately is quite common so for really common words we have these things called briefs so it basically is a shortcut for just writing all that the word in its entirety and you can do it for phrases too the thing about stenography is that each stenographer and their machine have their own dictionary that's how each word is written out whatever is called on the keyboard is immediately translated into whatever what it is via the dictionary and the plover software has its own default dictionary of many different words and the dictionary was supplied by mirabai the godmother behind the provers software and open steno project however you can add your own words into the dictionary if you wanted to as for my own dictionary i've added words that are not found in the default plover dictionary so this means that you can write downwards that aren't in the english oxford dictionary with steno like your friend's usernames although you have to add them slowly one by one but that's how dictionary works you slowly build it up and as for me right now i use zeno to actually send discord emojis and i've reached a point where i find it a lot easier than doing it the old way there are many many briefs to remember especially if you want to be fast on steno so that's the bulk of the difficulty in steno remembering briefs i've been at steno for about a month already and i go at about 30 words per minute but on really common phrases and etc i do go at 70 words per minute right now and it's still a big wall when you're trying to go at ridiculously fast speeds generally zeno really felt like playing 2dx to me where every single step is a wall but i found it pretty fun it really feels like you're playing a game there's so much progression when it comes to stenography as much as i'm learning this for the speed it is actually a really fun hobby most people on the plover discord server which is a really nice place by the way they picked up stenography for pretty much the same reasons as well as mine because it is actually fun to learn how to use this so if you are interested in learning how to stand on yourself at home you can do that with your own keyboard and plover just hit the plovers github page and download version 4 of clover most people and i don't really recommend the stable version 3 release because it lacks the plugin manager and hasn't been updated in 4 years when pluv is installed you can just click the radio button for enable and your keyboard will now stand out using this conversion however there is one thing to note if your keyboard doesn't have n key rollover you can't really zeno so what is anki rollover well some keyboards have only a 6 key rollover which is where if you press down six keys it will register all six keys pressed down but the seventh key cannot be registered and that's why a lot of seven key mania players make sure they get any key rollover keyboards because if they were going to hit a seven key chord on the game their keyboard wouldn't sense it if it wasn't any key role of a keyboard however even if you did not have anki roll over keyboard there is a way to still use steno without it there's an option in the setting called arpeggiate and it lets you slowly press down the keys and then press spacebar to complete the word although it's not really recommended because on steno good form is pressing down keys all at the same time so it's really recommended that you get an key role of keyboard which is most gaming keyboards also something to note is that most keyboards are staggered so it's a bit annoying to press down keys especially with the keycap shapes it's recommended that if you're using a keyboard you could flip your top row keys upside down so it's easier to press down multiple keys at once but if you can't stand the stagger and you have a little bit of money or a 3d printer machine you could print out your own steno keycaps the interesting thing about these keycaps is that the stem on the keycap is offset so that when you put it onto a keyboard the keys will line up straight so that will really help if you want to try and feel around if you're into steno and have a 3d printing machine or don't mind paying some money for someone to print it for you otherwise there is the hobbyist machine section on the github page where they show different hobby machines that people are selling and making hobby external keyboards run from about 80 to over 130 it is pricey but it's still much cheaper than actually wearing a stenography machine once you've gotten your hardware figured out you can head to our recording or learn plover to learn some proper theory instead of you should also join the plover discord server because it's a really great place if you have any questions because they're really nice and none of them ever judges anyone for having a slow speed or asking something that you might think is stupid art recording and learn clover are more like textbook websites therefore theory and if you want to practice there's also type type which is where i use to learn the layout of the keyboard and it's really great it really reminds me of those learn quality finger positioning typing websites when i was learning quality type type is great because it has lesson overviews which shows you what you generally need to know for each lesson and they also split up lessons a lot so it really does feel like progressing through a game other than typie type that's also stenojic which is a website that's a little bit more suited for drilling than learning per se so these are all the resources you generally need to learn plovers deno and that's about it i might have missed some things in my video so i highly recommend watching eric's video on steno and plova so go check him out [Music] and that's it for this video i hope you learned a lot about stenography and might even be interested in trying it out it is very much like a game so it doesn't hurt to try and it's just a lot more accessible nowadays to the general public compared to back then so why not just give it a go and thank you so much to peter for sending me this unique board i really love using it i think i'll be putting up my own review on it or not takaku so that's it for the video thanks for watching [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 13min 18sec (798 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 03 2021