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Open source stenotype engine
http://opensteno.org/plover
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Suggested words to abbreviate #64

Closed KelseyHigham closed 9 years ago

KelseyHigham commented 11 years ago

I dunno if this is something done by traditional stenotype systems, but since Plover knows every word that passes through it, it occurs to me that it could log them, figure out which keystroke-heavy words are typed most often, and suggest that they be abbreviated. Right now, typists can try to minimize keystrokes if they notice words that bother them, but a computer can probably do it better.

(Fun fact: My X4 hasn't actually arrived yet! I don't actually know whether this solves a real problem. I'm more asking because I feel like it would bring peace of mind — I know that one key for being a good stenographer is to maintain your dictionary, so I think it'd be neat if my computer could help me with that.)

Mqrius commented 10 years ago

I certainly think it would be nice to have a cleaned-up dictionary. Right now it has stuff in it that is pretty irrelevant (nearly anything ending in ".com"), and probably a bunch of mistakes too. On the other hand, This is not a big issue at the moment: Most odd things won't be encountered in daily plovering anyway.

I'll keep an eye out for odd things, and will track my abbreviations seperately. Maybe when we get a userbase of a few hundred people we can actually do a full crowdsourced review of the dictionary, but right now the number of entries is too high for that.

morinted commented 9 years ago

This is in progress with the training tools.