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What`s That Thing The Court Reporter Is Using?

Posted on 9/19/2007

I found a pretty good NPR broadcast about the stenograph machine that court reporters use. It's an audio that is from 2005 but still relevant.

Click here for the story.

Also, there is a corresponding article here: http://www.slate.com/id/2119534/

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How does it work? Court stenographers can type entire words all at once by striking multiple keys at the same time. The left hand spells out the beginning of a syllable, while the right hand spells out the end; all keys are pressed at the same time, and the machine produces an alphabet soup that's incomprehensible to anyone who's not trained in machine shorthand.

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