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  2. Court reporter - Wikipedia

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    Court reporter. A court reporter, court stenographer, or shorthand reporter[1] is a person whose occupation is to capture the live testimony in proceedings using a stenographic machine or a stenomask, thereby transforming the proceedings into an official certified transcript by nature of their training, certification, and usually licensure.

  3. Stenotype - Wikipedia

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    A steno machine, stenotype machine, shorthand machine, stenograph or steno writer is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use. In order to pass the United States Registered Professional Reporter test, a trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute (wpm) at very high accuracy in the ...

  4. Stenomask - Wikipedia

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    A stenomask is a hand-held microphone built into a padded, soundproof enclosure that fits over the speaker's mouth or nose and mouth. Some lightweight versions may be fitted with an elastic neck strap to hold them in place while freeing the user's hands for other tasks. The purpose of a stenomask is to allow a person to speak without being ...

  5. Shorthand - Wikipedia

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    Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphein (to write). It has also been called brachygraphy, from Greek brachys (short ...

  6. Steganography - Wikipedia

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    The same image viewed by white, blue, green, and red lights reveals different hidden numbers. Steganography (/ ˌ s t ɛ ɡ ə ˈ n ɒ ɡ r ə f i / ⓘ STEG-ə-NOG-rə-fee) is the practice of representing information within another message or physical object, in such a manner that the presence of the concealed information would not be evident to an unsuspecting person's examination.

  7. Value of information - Wikipedia

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    Computation. VoC is derived strictly following its definition as the monetary amount that is big enough to just offset the additional benefit of getting more information. In other words; VoC is calculated iteratively until. "value of decision situation with perfect information while paying VoC" = "value of current decision situation".

  8. Thomas Shelton (stenographer) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Shelton's Tachygraphy shorthand alphabet. Shelton invented a new stenographical system and published it in 1626 in the book Short-Writing (in later editions since 1635 called " Tachygraphy ", Ancient Greek for "speedy writing"). In Shelton's shorthand system every consonant was expressed by an easy symbol which sometimes still resembled ...

  9. Voice writing - Wikipedia

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    Voice writing is a transcription method used for court reporting, medical transcription, CART, and closed captioning. Using the voice writing method, a court reporter speaks directly into a stenomask or speech silencer, a hand-held mask containing one or two microphones and voice-dampening materials. As the reporter repeats the testimony into ...