Unlike a QWERTY keyboard on a laptop that requires a one button press per character, the smaller steno machine keyboard: Has fewer keys Can understand a single key press or multiple keys pressed ...

In order to keep up with the speed of human speech for hours on end, court reporters use a special keyboard — a steno machine — that allows them to type whole words and phrases in single strokes.

Tang Yawei holds the stenograph machine he invented - which allows ... He invented a set of symbols based on the keyboard of an English typewriter, but it was complicated and impractical.

Stenographers record conference or court proceedings on a small machine that looks like a toy piano keyboard. The Chinese steno machine was invented in 1994 by Tang Yawei, who had developed a ...