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Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

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What it is

Mirabai Knight's PyCon 2013 talk on Plover, a free cross-platform stenography engine that lets people write at up to 240 WPM on ordinary hardware, including a demo of coding by steno.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN's standard reference when typing speed, ergonomics, or alternative input comes up, for its live demo and the open-source steno ecosystem.

  • 8 people recommended it
  • 8 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves”

    Mirabai Knight's talk on Plover; inspired a live coding instrument.

    jarmitage, 2021-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine”

  2. “Here is a really great talk on the state of doing so, with a fantastic realtime demo near the end.”

    Great talk with realtime demo of live-coding via Plover.

    zeta0134, 2023-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard”

  3. “Talk on Plover open source stenography enabling very fast typing.”

    3rd3, 2014-01 · Recommendation · in “DataHand”

  4. “Here's a video by the stenographer half of the duo that started the project”

    Video by the stenographer half of the Plover project's founding duo.

    vanderZwan, 2014-07 · Recommendation · in “One year with Colemak”

  5. “You can build your own steno machine with some open-source software and a fancy gaming keyboard.”

    Mirabai Knight explains Plover and DIY steno on a gaming keyboard.

    gcr, 2016-09 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How did you keep improving your typing speed after 100 WPM?”

  6. “Here's a good PyCon presentation from someone who switched to voice input for programming.”

    PyCon talk on switching to voice input for programming.

    linsomniac, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “Workman Keyboard Layout (2010)”

  7. “Old talk but It's what court reporters use to transcribe at the speed of text”

    Old talk on steno as fast text input for someone who cannot speak.

    JZL003, 2021-09 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Any good text-to-speech solutions for someone who cannot talk normally?”

  8. “The video in the first result was good”

    Good video from prior Plover discussions.

    melling, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “Plover”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: plover, stenography, typing speed, open source, live coding

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