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Actually, certification in the US differs a little per state for State Certification, but the National Court Reporter's Association's Registered Professional Reporter Certification is 225 words per minute with 4 voices. The Stenographer presses multiple keys at a time to write a shorthand word with each stroke (whereas the rest of us type one letter at a time). Today, the stenograph machine is connected to a computer, and will translate in real-time to actual words. The court reporter will have both the "tape" with the letters in the image above, and the translated text with words as well. There are a couple theories the reporters use, but it is essentially a form of phonetics. Back in the day, they used to handwrite like this, and would then have to later translate it themselves! Now because of the computers, they can listen to the audio and confirm it translated correctly. They will also give it to a proofreader to check before producing the final transcript.

As a former court reporter, this is not accurate. It doesn't type symbols, it types letters. The machine is designed to represent all phonetic letters from left to right. Since not all letters are represented, different combinations of them, for instance, on the left side, since there is no 'D', the letters 'TK' represent a 'D'. There is no vowel "I", so the letters 'EU' are used for it. There is a 'D' on the right side of the keyboard. So, writing the word "Did", you'd press down all at the same time "TK EU D" and that would be on it's own line. If you have a multi-syllables or don't have a shorthand one stroke, you'd continue the rest of it on the next stroke. An example of a shorthand one stroke would be the phrase, "Can you please", which would translate on the keyboard to "K R U P S" KR on the left = a C and the 'U P S' represents the rest. A lot of stenographers make their own shorthand strokes for common phrases to save time.

I've "learned" shorthand (it was a compulsory class), it's quite difficult and the position of the writing relative to the line can change the word completely. I learned foreign languages very quickly but this was just impossible to me.

Ok I get that, but why does it appear like that on the screen?

Shorthand is so crazy to look at, it always looks like the kind of gibberish and doodles you write when you’re trying to look busy.

Thank you for explaining this, I always wondered.

I used to do old fashion shorthand.... bloody hated it

Maybe i should learn shorthand

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Thanks for the Copy & Paste.............

Court reporters do real time recording. video and voice recording can be used to create a transcript after proceedings have ended, but court reporters create realtime court transcription that can be stopped and read back if something needs to be clarified during legal proceedings. Also, if people are talking over each other, the reporter can ask for people to repeat themselves (rather than someone trying to figure it out from a tape).

With computer, voice recognition software can be spotty.

Yup. That's what my mom said too. She said: AULT = all the TAOEUPL = time TL = it will B = be RL / RBGS / RL = really, really KLOES = close