Reply #77: Court stenographers use machine shorthand. [View All]

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The machine is called a Stenograph.
Court reporters use a tape recorder for backup, but a tape recorder CANNOT replace a human, who makes sure the record is preserves, stops people who overlap and mumber, and so on.

The machine has separate keys for each letter, and you have to hit combinations of letters to spell out words. It's like piano playing and typing combined.