Stenography students battle for title of fastest fingers
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- čas přidán 13. 02. 2020
- 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, some might call stenography a dying art, but stenographers say that's just not true.
"It's a well-kept secret of a profession most people don't know about," said Plaza College Court Stenography Program Director Karen Santucci.
More than 100 students studying at Plaza College to become broadcast captioners and court reporters participated in the contest.
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I don't even have 96% accuracy when talking
lol
true
lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me too. The stuttering lol
My stutters always make me say things incorrectly. From "There is chips on the table" (which may not sound like a stutter at first, but my brain thinks it flows better, so it substitutes are for is) to "Before you go..."
[Pause]
[Pause again]
[Even more pausing]
[Still nothing coming out of my mouth]
"A-a-a-a"
[Still can't say anything]
[Nothing]
"Nevermind."
I often end up correcting myself if I say things incorrectly. Kind of hard to explain, since I never had these issues when I was younger.
i want to learn that language and that typing style so that I can finish my 15000 word thesis in like 15 minute haha
you could probably take notes in shorthand, or do your draft on every paper before getting to the something that should be read by others.
i am looking to learn something but not for career. it just sounds like a fascinating idea.
I literally have one due tonight 😂
Just use text to speech.
@@eggyrepublic Way too slow and error prone. II'm speaking the sentence with the word typing I'll see you sweet absolutely terrible (im speaking this sentence with voice typing and as you'll see it's absolutely terrible). Also can't keep up if there's any background noise.
You would actually Finnish it in 2 and a half minutes with a average 100 wpm
1:05 when he said _"TKHROMT"_
I felt that.
Thromt, That Was Deep 😔
"comes up in one stroke". Got a stroke just readimg tkhromt
LMFAO
@@ocyruspythia1658 🙂🤩🤩😋😋
Same
Final exams be like: "Alright, here's audio of the songs Rap God and Dissapearance of Hatsune Miku. Minimum accuracy for this test is 97%."
I'm a student writing about 180 wpm comfortably. I've TRIED Rap God, and he spits at 260 wpm. That's.......I just.....gave up lol. If you're intently listening, some of the lyrics just blend into each other. 👀👀👀 It's not impossible, but it's a skill, and it takes LOTS of practice.
@@soyyoveronica1 That's rad. But don't that let you down, keep practicing! I'm sure you'll beat him someday in someway
Tech N9ne - Worldwide Choppers
Tung Twista - Mista Tung Twista
I love how you referenced a mainstream rap song and a song from an alternate dimension
@@soyyoveronica1 It IS impossible if what you're saying is true. The words per minute record is like 216 wdm.
My mum is steno and it always excites me the way she types. Like they type so fast that too effortlessly. And even they have symbols in place of words which they can type or write when they are in hurry. ( me who types with two fingers staring her while types with all fingers while talking to someone else ). Also, she trained in the 90s so the typewriter keys used to be a bit stronger, and they were required to press harder. And yes typing without not looking is hella difficult. Hats off to all stenos out there.
typing without not looking??? so typing with looking?
@@AntyCrix Even regular typing's difficult to him, bro. It's why he admires his mum's stenography so much.
@@Frawt Thanks for the explanation, I was kinda confused because regular typing you can do w/o looking >.>
if you want type on the computer without looking at the keybaord i feel bad for u
I think the word you guys are looking for is “touch typing” a.k.a typing without looking. It takes practice getting used to but there are plenty of ways online to get better at it. I used to only be able to type 30 wpm but after getting used to typing for several months, I can do 60 wpm no problem.
As someone who goes to a college with a large deaf community, we always have the stenographers for big assemblies with the students. Much appreciated work done here.
Edit: noticed this has a lot of likes. In case people were wondering, I go to Rochester Institute of Technology. We have a large NTID program here. Most if not all classes are available to have interpreters for ASL. Pretty much all of my zoom classes have an interpreter present.
As a deaf person i am wondering why interpreters don't use this in finland, this looks way better than the qwerty. Although I'm not sure if this works live
That’s great to hear!
@@googleuser732 Not sure if its the same in Finland, but I'm an ASL interpreter here in the US, and we often end up working the same events as the CART provider (there's only 1 or 2 of them in my community so we are all familiar with each other haha). The CART services I've seen (Communication Access Real-time Translation) use the same keyboard setup as stenographers and provide captions in real-time.
I talked to one of them once and she said she essentially captions things phonetically as they're said, so I don't know if her keys correlate to different phonemes instead of various letters like the stenographers in the video.
Long story short: it can be done live
That's such a cool idea. I'd love to learn this and get a job doing that. It might give me a chance to practice my very limited Auslan (I'm Aussie).
That is awesome.
“Everyone thinks that Alexa and Siri are gonna take over, but they can never take over from the human” - famous last words
That's definitely not gonna age well
Did.. did she just triggered a red flag?
I wonder what kind of event is triggered, I hope it's not Skynet
Alexa and Siri are both ancient technology. Machine understanding human speech is WAY more advanced than that. It just costs more than $50.
Ok, it will eventually not age well, but when? In 2 years or in a century?
@@dylandoge1627 Quite the opposite I'd think, a computer can be near 100% accurate with enough 'learning'. I doubt a human can in all situations. Very few humans have that level of understanding of all accents, all disabilities, all languages. Humans also get tired, have off days etc, machines do not.
A machine with sufficient learning (not hard to achieve with AI-based learning from being fed a million recordings of a million accents and a million disabilities over a million languages.) That single learned machine can be replicated a million times to a million machines in a million court-rooms and actively continue learning live and sharing that learning with the other million machine (without sharing any sensitive/confidential information).
All that will cost money, but a lot less money than paying a million humans an hourly wage. And the technology can be used in many other situations as well reducing costs and increasing efficiency/accuracy.
This technology exists now and could start being used for this purpose. If it's not already.
PS: I wouldn't recommend using Siri or Alexa in a courtroom. It's a known issue that both technologies record and send recordings to arbitrary contacts without owners' knowledge/consent. I imagine in a confidential legal situation, that would be a very big problem.
“Never take over for the human” hmmm we will come back to this in 10 years
agreed. even 50 years is far from never
That’s what your dad said 20 years ago
@@mo_reefy lol are you saying his dad left him and never came back? I just want to be sure.
Robots will be taking everybody’s jobs.
And ideological battle between Capitalism vs Socialism will cease to exist.
Since both systems are just instruction manuals towards how human labor and resources should be managed per population.
But since there won’t be any human labor involved in the future, everybody is going to be earning a good passive income and more, when humanity continues to have a smaller and smaller population, with an abundance of resources each citizen of Earth is going to have access to, once we start colonizing the stars.
well stenograohers are there becquse youre not allowed ot have gadgets in coutrooms bc i guess privacy reasons. same goes with getting photographs which is why they still have people sketch/draw the scenes in a courtroom. It would be amazing and i look forward to a future the exceeds the capabilities of speech-to-text these days, but I stillthink courtrooms would still use this same method of no gadgets even 10 years in the future
As someone who is currently a student in stenography, the nuance of court room processes and the need for a live person is something that will never be replaced. I n depositions outside the courtroom, the court reporter swears in participants in the deposition, offers life read back, and the captions that you see on live tv for people with auditory disabilities are all the work of stenographers. My mother has been doing it for 40 years and there is not soon to be anything introduced as reliable and accurate as a human.. thank God
How long is the course and how is the pay? Thanks!
It's gonna be dead in the next ten years.
@@abhinavadarshsood5759 trust me..its not . because no matter how upgraded machines are going to come in the future..humans are the most reliable . and a Stenographer not only types the proceedings ..he/she also manages several documents and stuffs like that ...machines won't be able to do it or higher rank officer won't do it by his/her own..after all .. the person is a high ranked officer or person .
@@Laneybugg3 The time to graduate from a student to a professional varies by quite a bit. It really comes down to how much practicing you do. I finished learning how to write everything after nine months of the course but now I have to get my speed up to the point where I can follow along with them. I'm hoping to graduate later this year, but only time will tell.
The pay is quite good. I've been told it's an average of 50K salary. Especially now because there are a lot of jobs available because of such a shortage right now.
@@mymiki3646 Rapid advances in Machine Learning mean that speech to text will be more accurate than ever. A Human may still be required but he won't be using a stenograph
"but they can never take over from the human"
Oh boy...
Was just gonna comment this
I dont get it
@@zervaunt AI
@@Sea_Star what
MidLife Crisis 🤦♂️
I love when someone explains in a different video if someone coughs to a recording and you can't hear anything, you can't rely on recordings while a stenographer can pick it up and also they can easily give the transcripts for fast reading.
I believe we watched the same video
Multiple microphone sources and it is solved. This is the easiest job to replace. I didn't even know it was still a job in some countries. Should have been replaced 100% in the 90s.
@@FishFreddy If it were so easy, it would have been replaced by now. The truth is far more complex than you give it credit
I was a judicial clerk at the state trial court level from 2007-2008 after graduating from law school. The judge for whom I worked had a court reporter/stenographer. Some of the other judges did as well, but some also had moved to "On the Record" digital court recording. The court reporter/stenographer was far superior to the recording--she very much was the Guardian of the Record. It didn't happen often, but absolutely no hesitance in interrupting court proceedings to clarify a word when someone mumbled or was too quiet. She was also a hoot. She looked very presentable, clean, polished, well-kempt, but she had a sailor's mouth and was really into heavy metal, lots of stories from her about wild times at concerts. She said that when she was learning stenography she used to practice by watching and transcribing the television. I'm a bit of a luddite anyways, especially when it comes to things like this, so I would love to see stenographers stay relevant and needed.
I am Indian stenographer but I haven't job
@@sukhnindersingh1776 I'm sure there will be upcoming cgl or central job, good luck. i myself am learning stenography too
I'm in school for stenography now!! I'm too excited!! :D
"Stenographers do more than just type what people say, they also have to identify the speaker which includes asking people to speak louder, stop talking over one another, and repeat or spell words that could be misunderstood. This is why California's push for automated/computer stenographers failed so spectacularly."
"Giant Iceburg Almost Crushes Two Men" brought me here.
wtf same
We few share same brain waves.
Same 😅
It's only fair I head that way.
This is amazing. I remember seeing a stenographer when I was on jury duty but didn’t realize it was like this. Props to anyone who goes this route.
Thanks! :)
Ever heard about hindi shorthand?
@entertainment yo LOL My daughter hates it too. It's not for everyone for sure.
its cool i guess but "amazing" is overdoing it lol
@@bootydaddy9934 Why would saying "amazing" overdoing it? Are you that envious you can never have the skills or intelligence to do this?
At 2:12 she woke up all my devices in a single second 🤙
whos here after daily dose of internet?
Yup 🖐🏽
Ayee..
yessir
Me too
Lol ur faster than the stenographers
I have to close my eyes to hear better 😂😂. They would think I’m in court sleeping.
In India we don't use stenographer typewriter we write it down as symbols. I have been a high court stenographer from the past 2 years and it's definitely is a demanding job but still it feels great cause not everyone can do what you can do and i still remember the first day of my job when i was taking deposition and my hands were shaking 🤣🤣well that was a time to remember
I guess it's because Stenography uses software program. And technical support for that can be lacking in many states here. Still an impressive job.
My grandpa was a shorthand and typewriting teacher in Karnataka and they still need shorthand in courts. He has such fast fingers, he can tyoe faster and more accurate than me.
I can relate to this .
@@shruthakeerthi4559 ಕನ್ನಡ ಬರುತ್ತಾ?
interesting story, thank you. i am currently learning steno and I'm in India too.
Imagine pissing one of these people off and you have an argument via text🤣🤣🤣
😉😆🤷♀️
That's stuff would be perfect on SNL..!
I was a court reporter for almost 32 years. I do miss, but I started practicing again. That's the beauty of it.
HOH college student here! I have these lovely people saving my grades every semester. Amazing work is done by this profession.
She said Alexa and Siri could never take over, it's true. But she forgot about Google.
im currently going to school to be a stenographer, and all the curiosity and positivity in the comments is really motivational!
How long do you go to school for
@@nothinginparticular6419 only a few years i believe!
@@nothinginparticular6419 yep, i looked it up, and its usually 2 years
1:55 wow that ring...
So..you mean what?
@@jathebest2835 jack is a jewel thief
Girl has magic lady bits
I was in court ..and watched as one of these ladies had to read back what one of these street thugs said word for word cussing and all..these ladies are amazing ..
Ps it took me about a hour to text this
Lmao shut up
quiet whitey
@@gravy3858 wow that's pretty racist
@@geanolsbar
rac·ism
/ˈrāˌsizəm/
noun
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group
in other words no, you are not correct.
@@geanolsbar Yeah they're not being institutionalizedly racist, like they're not subtly limiting them or discriminating against them. But explicit derogatory prejudice is also racism
the stenographer writing the captions to the news be watching as amateurs battle it out
I’m so intrigued..I saw the buzzfeed video on a stenographer...I had no idea the name of the profession or the skill it takes to be a court recorder person aka stenographer
I want to learn this. There are so many resources online to help learn. I don’t know if it’s still used in Australia though. It looks like awesome fun.
Yeah but it also looks like the fast track to getting carpal tunnel
I feel like this is one of those things that AI will take over very soon.
I thought broadcasting captions was auto generated 😩 hats 👒 off to them
An average American has a vocabulary of 42,000 words. However, people participating in courtroom activities such as trials use a particular set of legalese words that are less than 42,000. Moreover, certain phrases are used often in the situations. All these make the work of a stenographer easier. They use a version of shorthand writing like a reporter jotting down notes. This doesn’t diminish the cleverness and skills of their work. As someone said in the video, it’s another language.
I started my career as a stenographer and worked in Admn. Offices and Courts. Writing from India. I practise the Pitman shorthand. It is methodical and step by step. No memorising except for some frequently occurring words and phrases. Regular practice is necessary. Variable speed Voice recorders are available to finetune the skill of writing dictations and corrrecting the mistakes. I can write max. 150 words per minute. Some could write 180 or 200 wpm. Most are able to write 120 wpm. Exams are conducted in India, by Government. Sir Isaac Pitman and his brother Mr.Ben Pitman made a lot of efforts during their life time for the art. A steno should constantly expand, though not deeply, his knowledge in various subjects to work with ease. And the audibility and clarity of the speaker also contribute to the transcription. Machines cannot replace humans in this field.
thanks for the insight☺️
I thought the captions were auto generated
One of the best voice recognition software available is on CZcams and it's not even that good.
Jax Stax yeah CZcams captions are terrible some CZcams channels hire a captioner (?) for each language.
They’ve had closed captioning on TVs for decades, which is to say decades before computer technology could even begin to do that.
@@itsacorporatething live captions are hand-typed and the rest are pre-made obviously
@@skeletonjam Live captions arent hand typed, the captions that just say (English) are hand typed
Totally impressive!! I'm a paralegal student and I could never learn this. So cool
You mean paralyzed?
Bill Nye That’s a joke right? Paralegals perform specific duties for which a lawyer is responsible for. They are like professional assistants for the lawyer.
@@monisolaelliott9346 lol he obviously was joking, you lame af
"This is your daily dose of internet"
-your- yooooor
Them vs that one angry kid on his keyboard
"They could never take over a human"
Technology: "Hold my beer"
I want to know how much that lady knows about AI technology lol.
People gotta learn that the upper limit on tech is INCREDIBLY HIGH. Realistically speaking.
Also of note- sometimes the speed of light is even too slow for the information we need to get across.
Upper limit to tech is high, but affordability of tech is low. They’ll be alright for a long while 😂 county courts probably won’t be investing in AI anytime soon.
@@dierralamar788 My Samsung phone can already transcribe audio on any video. Think what it can do in the next 5 years.
@@mantid83 Think about the technology that rich people and higher ups in government have. They could have stuff that we don't even know is possible. Crazy engineering.
Wow, now I appreciate the stenography subtitles for this video so much more.
Now this is excellent! And this is a true representation of what stenographers look like! Kudos to this school and this instructor and all These instructors. I miss brick and mortar schools in my state, so many are trying to learn online, it is not the same thing as being in a classroom with other students. Iron sharpens iron! You go students!
When I worked for Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett I could type 115 words per minute on the keyboard I still want to learn stenography and I'm going to do it.
I'm so glad this guy explained what losing jobs to technology meant because I would not have known otherwise
The real test should be in an auction hall
Google machine learning algorithm "hold my L3 memory"
I had the privilege to learn typing with a classic typewriter as a stenographer a while back. But I do a different profession now. More on the field kind of job. Sometimes I would go to the office to updates details or apply for a leave, when I start typing everyone shocked how fast I’m typing. And then someone start a convo, and I facing them to join the convo with my hand still typing, and they even more shocked!! I love the reactions 😂
Stenography is actually included as a major course subject in some college courses. Mostly in Management or Administration. Well, here in my country tho.
I want to learn this method and also how to get this device
back in college , stenography is one of my major subject and during those times i didn't take it seriously like I'm just doing it for requirements purposes only just to pass the subject but watching this news about this "future stenographer" is a much respect to theme. I know it's not easy but it's worth the hardwork . And i even realize that i must try stenography again but by heart this time😊
What the human brain is capable of never ceases to amaze me!
"but they could never take over from the human" - looking at my caption settings: English (auto-generated)
this little video had good clean audio with clear speakers. I have tried auto generated captiontioning on some videos and they don't even begin to line up with what is being said.
@@jillwisland680 emphasis on the word "never". No one would think auto cc is a thing 4 or 5 years ago, and now here we are. And we are only talking about the product already implemented and used commercially.
There is already something in research that can mimic your voice and your accent and it needed only 5 seconds of recording of you... NLP development is insanely fast and I'd never say never
@@jillwisland680 thats what its like now, in like years, a bit better. 10 years it'll be a children's toy.
What is the best speed of your institute in steno
bro if siri can hear me say her name and the rest of the sentence from another room then your job is definitely in danger lol
this is what my course is about. This is very hard but fun. I know its one year late but hi from the philippines ❤️
You guys are the real heroes
woah
@@victorym744 what makes stenographers heroes?
The word hero is loosely used nowadays... 🤷♂️
@@iamwisdomsky perhaps not, but it's still cool
Oh WOW! are you BSOA grad?
The real test is letting them type the lyrics of Rap God by ears
Notary at court-hold my typewriter
My cousin is a stenographer from our states's high court ,I never knew it was this intensive
Everybody in the comments: *talking about how they would want to do that*
Me: *wHO wOn?*
I did legal transcription for a year (listening to recorded cases/interviews and typing verbatim), and I want to learn how to use these stenography keyboards so baaaad
How long did you go to school for that ? Were you able to make your own schedule while working?
I love whoever typed those cc :eyes:
0:34 I swear, before they show her name, in my mind came the name KAREN!! Lol.
This has almost nothing to do with the fastest fingers, but more how good your memory/muscle-memory is.
If I've get taken to court I'll bust out some words they won't be able to type😂
For me notes in steno writings is cool, where ever i go very handy as long as there is paper and pen. No worries of lowbat or brownout. The proceeding pursued, even under the tree or in the open fields. Challenging.
Dang wait til they find out about speech-to-text
They should learn deep learning.
They also can’t distinguish between speakers on that
НTTP don’t talk about things that you have no understand of
speech to text isn't good at all
a night full of blue stars not YET.
Why cant everyone involved in a trial just be mic'd up, like professional microphones clipped to the collar.
Well then you'd need an audio engineer, mics, speakers, recording equipment and time to mic up everybody compared a stenographer that just sits down and begins to type. It may not be obvious to everybody but especially smaller courts have dozens of cases every day only the supreme court only does 2 cases per day, so having to mic up everybody again and again is wasting time. It's also easier to go back and find a quote in a text compared to trying to find a timestamp in an audio recording.
Also mics can cut off and they can sometimes be altered so they're not always accurate
you gonna ctrl+f a recording? good luck pal xD
Maybe it's the expenses,and maybe its more for accuracy because even when you have recorded meetings you still need written records
Even when audio is recorded, it has to be transcribed into a written record to be documented. It's much easier to just have it transcribed as it's being said instead of taking the time to transcribe it all after the fact.
It's more amazing how the stenographer wrote the captions for this video. You can notice the caption text appearing as if it was being typed.
It's like an evolved version of texting
lol, not true
youtube's captions is a living example
as long as the sound is recorded in a good environment
yeah it's just government thinking this is cheaper than multiple high quality mics
you forgot about people having different accents which youtube cannot capture well, even though if they are the same words. Some words come out as gibberish
@@matreen427 Yeah, but not for long man, a paper has been established on this specifically
differentiating accents from input of the native language or english
which means that in 3-5 years or maybe even sooner youtube's captions will become better
Literally a job whose dead end is in sight.
Me: See’s title
Also me: Let me introduce you to competitive Melee players
When people do stenography: satisfying sounds
When i play minecraft: cLickiTy ClacKitY
one day tech will probably advance enough to make this as a job to be obsolete, but I doubt that will happen for many decades. even then, we still have spelling bees even though knowing all spelling has become obsolete, I doubt this as an artform will die, and it's super impressive.
The tech is already there. It will probably be a few years yet but they will eventually be replaced because it will be cheaper, faster and also more accurate.
There's a lot of people thinking that AI can take this job. I'm a stenographer student right now and I won't say that I think we will never be replaced, but I will say the human elements that go into our jobs will be hard to replicate with AI. To those that are saying AI will take over in the next couple years, I'll be back to let you know how my career is doing lol.
I agree that stenography is difficult to automate. One thing that is key to natural language processing is understanding the context of words and sentences, which AI tends to struggle with a lot. Speech to text AI has a hard time with ambiguous sounding words and especially with uncommon or specialized vocabulary and names. For example, a person will probably be able to easily decide if the word they heard was Marx (Karl Marx), marks (a stain), or Mark's (a person's name in possessive form), but very difficult for computers because it needs to know what makes sense in context. Teaching computers to analyze context is extremely difficult, as it would require them to have background knowledge on many subjects. Accents and inaudible audio recordings are another issue.
I think it is possible even in this days if somebody really wanted it or have money to improve AI, but even if it will happend then it will be like TV vs internet media or books/newspappers still exist on paper even it's non-eco or "offices"(idk is it correct) you know almost everywhere they want paper documents and whats funnier fields can be small for names, adreses etc. so it makes mess, because mostly old people are ignorants and its very well known that law like being olddddd.
once it is cheaper to install the system , you will be no longer needed
@@okay.1336 actually many lawyers jobs has been replaced by computer in big law firm
I’ve been waiting 10 years for speech to text to catch up. It still sucks terribly. I have a generic North American accent and I still can’t dictate my scientific reports. It takes me more time to go back and correct all the speech to text errors than it does for me to type it out myself.
Seems exciting and challenging but I'm too intimidated to try. I love typing which is why I thought about doing it in the first place but knowing that my records are going to have to be accurate would be too much pressure. I'll just stick with my computer science and business administration degrees for now.
Hey hey hey... gimmie a “fastest fingers on a flip phone” and I’ll definitely win that!
I definitely miss being able to text with just my right hand while watching tv or cooking lol. Didn’t even have to look at the screen, had those letter memorized!!
Old school 😂😂😂
I wonder if steno can be applied to computer programming.
@GunsOfThePhoenix
You can also sound out the name of the character you want. Have you heard of plover? You can basically assign shorthand to any character you want with it.
@Ethan Reed
I mean, anyone who chooses to try and learn it probably are already commited to the time it'll take if they have heard of how long it takes for court reporters to build up speed.
@Ethan Reed
It still makes things faster
programming is less about typing speed than actually thinking about what to write
@@anwiseru9064
Once you do know, though, typical typing speed makes you linger on a single thought without being able to progress fluidly. Steno makes putting down your thoughts feel more natural.
i feel a bit sorry for them because it looks like a demanding task but it will be obsolete in not very long, and partly already is
I doubt it image all the slangs, accents, and languages there are,
@@angelgjr1999 machine learning gets better and better
I never knew it worked like this, I genuinely thought they just used a normal keyboard and now I'm fascinated
stenographers be gangsta till Eminem starts defending his case
Back in 70' my mother was a excellent secretary and a fast typist, she figured this is also what I needed to do and tried to enroll me....thing is, I'm sorta of dyslexic and a bad speller....glad she didn't waste her money....I definitely wouldn't have NOT wanted to do this kind of job, anything to do with court tv puts me to sleep!!!
Ironically, most stenography theories are based on phonetics (how the words are sounded, not spelled). I'm not sure that really side-steps all the issues, but it might be easier than you think!
What did you end up majoring in the end? Asking this because I'm also a bad speller and really struggle with reading English. Also, I just graduated HS and still looking for what to major in.
@@hussenbeynah9635 Nothing, I dropped out and never finished college but I did pretty good for myself....but times were very different back in the early 80's and 90's...today if I were starting out, I would finished college because w/a flick of a finger an employer can find out everything about u and ur wk history....
2:10 EVERYBODY thinks Alexa and Siri could take over, but they can NEVER take over... two quite bold statements there from a person working with law :-D
might need these student to my essay
Need 4 Speed : Quick fingers
Dang this will be completely obsolete in like a year
@Finn you all underestimate the pace of technology. AI will be more accurate than humans within 5 years. And even that I would say is conservative. Probably more like 1 or 2. Voice recognition has only barely entered the field of context recognition, machine learning, etc. Hate to break it to you, but these were the same types of arguments being made about AI conquering chess and we all know how that turned out for us mortals.
Avery Rair I agree...
@@doctorslug find me an ai that can understand my scottish accent 100% accurently and I will be surprised
@@Jebola Well I'm a human, and I doubt I could understand it 100% accurately
Probably also accountability
Do you honestly think that this is something that technology can never replace? Ok...
Sophisticated AI will be able to transcribe speech taking place all the same time. However, this will take a while to perfect. Until then we will just have stenographers. I helped as a transcriber for such an AI project.
Something tells me there are far from creating a sophisticated program that can pick up everyone’s overlapping conversations. The technology is still under development.
@@okaminess I think AI is over-engineering in this instance. Wouldn't it make more sense to have each microphone be assigned to a specific speaker (sure this would require some setup beforehand to connect everything to the computer(s) or network or whatever), then just use a basic speech-to-text program to transcribe what they're saying individually? This technology has been around since at least the 90's.
I found a video in Facebook with a lot of comments like yours. And the replies said the stenographers can not just know who speaks what in a conversation where everyone's talking. But also unlike an audio recorder, they can differentiate other miscelleanous sounds like door slamming, talking audience, stapler sounds that might overlap with voices. They can also make someone repeat their statement if it is unheard or unclear.
@@Chaosweaver667 I thought exactly the same thing but perhaps the individual mics still pick up a person's speech next to you and then the system will label it for the wrong person maybe it will only work if you put the mic into a person's mouth like some government spies use as I've heard..
@@Chaosweaver667 @okaminess AI in the true sense of the word doesn't even exist. When people say AI, most of the time they are just referring to a relatively complex computer program and not something with any real intelligence.
my aunt was an stenographer. she said she missed working at the capitol as a secretary and doing steno
Aw I like the machine with the pink keys
Voice to text is going to take these jobs right out 😂
I'm thinking about switching careers and I've been practicing by typing to keep up with songs as they play. Only to find out that they don't even use full words or keyboards!
Don't pay to learn this, there's already tech to substitute those ppl, they only haven't done it bcuz the legal system is headed by some old crooks.
@@SirExtreme15 Not true.
@@okay.1336 yh but in 10-15 years most likely the technology will be advanced enough ,so what’s the point to in bark into a career that most likely will be gone in 10-15 years ?
Plover is free. “The Art of Chording” book to learn the chords is also free. A keyboard that supports 7+ simultaneous key presses is around $50 (also called n-key rollover). Look up the video on CZcams by searching “Plover steno.”
what is going on with the closed caption
These guys can read enchantment table.
Daily does of internet anyone?
“The Guardians of the Record” idk why but that’s so badass
Why would somebody need a stenographer when there is video and audio recorder? Could somebody explain?
what is crazy to me is if they actually mess up it can be almost impossible to fill in the mess up with a accurate fix
Everyone’s mocking the lady for saying Alexa and Siri can’t take over for humans but….
I just wanna know who won fastest fingers!?!
I went to a school to do THIS.. they stuck me in a paralegal program i went to the Dean of Admissions and it waa as if I was talking to a glass window 😳 nothin! I graduated from the college but it wasn't what I wanted...
I work my first year as a court reporter. It’s a lot of fun and you can work as much as you want to.
I came here expecting to laugh, but was actually very intrigued, wow
Daily Dose?
Of internet
Alif Izharulhaq yes