With stenographic court reporters in short supply nationally, some courts are considering whether automated speech-to-text tools could eventually serve in human reporters’ stead. But traditional ...

According to Wikipedia, stenography or shorthand is “is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed or brevity of writing as compared to a normal method of writing a language”. Just as ...

Anyone know shorthand? Before computers, before typewriters, shorthand was the way to take dictation and notes for the business community. The word stenography, from the original Greek, where it was ...

Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the operation of machines used by court reporters to create detailed transcripts of court testimony. One more mystery now, not quite on the scale of Deep ...

If you’re a fan of courtroom dramas on TV, then you know that the law is a living structure, built case by case. Lawyers cite precedent (the more sensational, the better) to win controversial trials ...

FOREST HILLS, Queens (WABC) -- Scores of college students studying to become stenographers competed in a nationwide fast-fingers contest in Queens on Thursday. With the rise of technology these days, ...

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Despite a nationwide shortage in court stenographers, or court reporters, Iowa’s 6th Judicial District, which includes Johnson County, does not hold any court reporter vacancies. Demand for the ...

Stenography is dying out; so are stenographers. When I mention that I’m working on the history of shorthand, people tell me that their mother knew shorthand, or their grandmother, or their husband’s ...