While a video of Premier Wen Jiabao was displayed on a big screen, a woman typed on a recording machine. As she typed, Wen's words appeared on the screen as subtitles. This was in last Friday's class ...

New York | Melissa Macaluso transcribes 200 words per minute without ever lifting a finger. She is a court reporter, but instead of typing the proceedings, she repeats the testimony word for word into ...

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 ...

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