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Bringing stenography to everyone. The Open Steno Project seeks to bring free software, low-cost hardware, and interactive learning tools to everyone who wants to use steno for their personal or professional pursuits.
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Whether you are seeking a fun hobby, looking to boost your...
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To learn stenography in the early 2000s, an individual had...
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Open Steno Events. Plover Meetup. 22 January 2022, at 21:00...
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The Open Steno Project is run by volunteers. The best way to...
- Plover
If learning stenography sounds exciting to you, that's...
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Demo. Try steno in your browser. Click in the Output box...
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Finally, for a list of Plover-related study aids, see...
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This section has been created so you can practice your steno skills in a focused and customisable way. Each page has tools to prompt you if you can't recall an answer and to show you alternative possible answers as well as tools to make it easier to measure your progress.
Stenography, from the Greek words stenos (narrow) and graphein (to write), also known as shorthand, is an abbreviated or symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand. Historically, stenography was written by hand on paper.
Stenography (steno for short) is a method of text input that utilizes a chorded keyboard layout to write parts of words, entire words, or even phrases. Before delving into the details of how steno works, first think about regular keyboards—for example, how one would type the word “complicate”:
If learning stenography sounds exciting to you, that's amazing! The Open Steno community welcomes you whether your want to learn steno out of curiosity or because you want to make a career out of it. Get Started with Plover or Download Now
Project Steno’s Basic Training course is a free hands-on intro-to-steno course where you will learn the rudiments of machine shorthand theory. That’s the keyboard system used by professional court reporters and captioners to capture high-speed speech verbatim using a Stenograph machine.
Finally, for a list of Plover-related study aids, see https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Learning-Stenography. Be well, Zack Brown. This site teaches stenotype using the Plover free software keyboard tool.
