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  1. Abbreviation
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  21. Short message service
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  25. Stenograph
  26. Stenomask
  27. Stenotype
  28. Teeline Shorthand
  29. Thomas Natural Shorthand
  30. Tironian notes
  31. Transcript

 

 



SHORTHAND
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Stenomask

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

A stenomask is a mouth mask with a built-in microphone. The goal of a stenomask is to allow a person to speak without being heard by other people, and to keep background noise away from the microphone.

A stenomask is useful for voice recognition applications, because it allows voice transcription in noisy environments. Perhaps more importantly, a stenomask silences the user's voice, so it doesn't interfere with the surrounding environment, such as a court or a classroom. The user can verbally identify the speaker, indicate gestures and unspoken answers, and describe activities as they take place.[1]

An operator of a stenomask can be trained to "re-voice" everything he hears, into a stenomask connected to a voice recognition system, for a real-time text transcription of everything spoken. This allows a "voice writer" to produce instant text feeds within a courtroom and distribute them in ASCII format immediately after a proceeding. The equipment can also interface with litigation management software.

A trained operator using a stenomask connected to a pre-trained voice recognition system can exceed 180 words per minute while at the same time exceeding 95 percent accuracy. He may also modify the pronunciation of the words he is speaking in order to improve accuracy. The success of this new system is already starting to revolutionize the field of court reporting, live closed captioning, remote CART, and captioned telephone systems.

History

The stenomask was developed by Horace Webb and two colleagues in the early 1940s. He was proficient with Gregg shorthand but sought a more accurate and faster system of transcription, as shorthand notes can become unmanageable with fast talkers or difficult terminology. Furthermore, until recently, shorthand reporters would verbally dictate transcription notes into typewritten form, resulting in about two hours dictation for every hour transcribing.

Thus, Webb thought he could "repeat it with my voice instead of with a pen". After much experimentation — first with a cigar box and then a tomato can — he arrived at a solution using a microphone inside a rubber Air Force face mask, paired with a coffee pot filled with sound-absorbing material. The result was eventually deemed by the U.S. Navy to be the most accurate method of transcription among "all known systems of verbatim reporting". and was subsequently adopted for use in their court reporting.[2]

In fiction

A stenomask appears and is described in Stephen King's novel Bag of Bones.

References

  1. ^ Voice Writing: The Method, National Verbatim Reporters Assoc, retrieved 13 Mar 2007
  2. ^ The Horace Webb Story, National Verbatim Reporters Assoc, retrieved 13 Mar 2007

External Links

  • Talk Technologies' "Sylencer"
  • Talk Incorporated's "StenoMask"
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