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Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM
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- Recommended by 10 people: 8 on Hacker News, 1 on Lobsters and 1 in engineering communities.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2013 to 2023.
- Presented by Mirabai Knight, founder of the Open Steno Project
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
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Mirabai Knight introduces Plover, an open-source stenography engine that enables high-speed typing and coding on standard keyboards.
Mirabai Knight Stenographic technology has been locked down to expensive, proprietary hardware and software for decades, depriving the world of the most efficient text entry system devised to date. Plover, a free, cross-platform steno engine that worWhy it's here
10 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an inspiring demonstration of using open-source stenography for high-speed typing and programming.
jarmitageon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine”
Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves: link to this video Inspired me to try to create a live coding musical instrument based on it: link / link
zeta0134on Hacker News • Recommends
On “Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard”
Yes! Here is a really great talk on the state of doing so, with a fantastic realtime demo near the end. Mirabai live-codes using her Plover setup and narrates her thought process as she types out each command. link to this video
3rd3on Hacker News • Recommends
On “DataHand”
There is an open source stenography project called "Plover". The idea of stenotype is instead of typing individual letters one combines keys to form sillables (or commands), what makes typing blazingly fast (240 WPM in the video below) and is overall a less cramped movement, because after each sillable you can relax instead of keeping muscles tensed for each letter. link Talk: link to this video Demo: link
vanderZwanon Hacker News • Recommends
On “One year with Colemak”
Stenography might also be an option: link Here's a video by the stenographer half of the duo that started the project: link to this video
gcron Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: How did you keep improving your typing speed after 100 WPM?”
Court reporters are required to type at 240WPM with zero mistakes, or they lose their court reporting license. You can teach yourself to use a stenography machine. You can build your own steno machine with some open-source software and a fancy gaming keyboard. See this video by Mirabai Knight and the Plover project: link to this video I wanted to try this but I couldn't stick with it.
linsomniacon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Workman Keyboard Layout (2010)”
Here's a good PyCon presentation from someone who switched to voice input for programming. link to this video I hadn't thought about it until this thread, but one of the biggest barriers for me using it was that we have a really quiet open office, but now that we are WFH...
JZL003on Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: Any good text-to-speech solutions for someone who cannot talk normally?”
…y other startups also allow you to train the model to be closer to your voice. Since you might have many recordings of yourself before this, could be cool. Comment if you can't find it and I can look It's none of my business how long term it is, but if it is long term look into stenography, especially open source opensteno and plover. Old talk but link to this video It's what court reporters use to transcribe at the speed of text but for you it could mean giving text into a tts software at the speed of normal talking. I've only tried it briefly but if you take the time to learn it, you can comfortably get to normal speech speeds with no hang fatigue. It's one of the reasons opensteno is so nice bc it a…
mellingon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Plover”
Over the past decade there have been some interesting discussions about Plover on HN link The video in the first result was good: link to this video
Axman6on Lobsters • Recommends
Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM - Open Source Stenography (2013)
fsiefkenon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM (2013) [video]”
programming at the speed of thought; vim at 240 wpm link to this video I wonder any of the Pycon 2013 participants try to learn plover and what their experiences were, perhaps they even read this topic on HN? I'm already very proficient at dvorak typing (with the regular vim bindings), so I'm not sure if the 30% speed increase would justify taking 3 to 6 months of learning this, it'd be cool for substituting your speech with a text to speech engine, and with openeeg recognition one step closer to cyborghood. It's also nice to just have the skill to transcribe human speech real time and being able to apply for jobs in politics, justice or television. For example, here's an interview with the dutch trans…
reledion Hacker News • Mentions
On “Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM (2013) [video]”
I never knew something like this was possible, very cool. One (unrelated) part of the Q&A saddens me, the fallacy that an open source project cannot be commercially successful: link to this video
Jonovonoon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Handwriting vs. typing: is the pen still mightier than the keyboard?”
Some things I wish: - I could write on paper and have that sent to a document on the computer as if it was typed out. Something like those digital pens do, but actually ocr the text. - To learn Stenography ( link to this video )
fsiefkenon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin on Mobile Devices”
You can - if 150 wpm is what you speak, with Plover and training you can reach 120-225 wpm on a qwerty keyboard with NKRO capability. But it's indeed steno (on a regular keyboard). With regular strokes and autocomplete you might reach 70 wpm or more link to this video
Groxxon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Open Steno Project: Bringing Stenography to Everyone”
Tho it's not the same person, there are some talks by the Open Steno / Plover people, e.g.: link to this video , e.g. at 6:30 or so (edit: also one on the bottom of the "about" page)
iLemmingon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Taika Waititi Calls Out Apple's MacBook Keyboard Backstage at the Oscars”
…grammer must invest into choosing the right keyboard; learning how to maintain a proper posture; maybe learn non-traditional ways to input text - Vim and Emacs keybindings; try Stenographic input¹; Speech recognition², etc. Because when they don't - sooner or later they end up having problems: back and neck pain, headaches, RSI, hemorrhoids. --- ¹ link to this video ² link…