Machine stenography is used in contexts where it is important to transcribe texts in real time, i.e. maximising words per minute. Instead of a "normal" keyboard, a stenography keyboard has fewer keys, on which whole words are chorded at a time. But it can also be useful to reduce hand strain, or just a fun input method to explore.

We will give a short introductory presentation on how machine stenography works (using the freely available Plover theory [1]; unfortunately there is no good free theory for German input), and we'll also bring some hardware so you can try it out for yourself. If you want to do so on your own laptop, you'll first need to install Plover [2]; but we'll also have an old thinkpad or two for tryout purposes.

Also feel free to come if you're already familiar with steno! We're looking forward to seeing what kind of hardware & theories others are using, so do bring your things ^^

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[1] https://plover.wiki/index.php/Plover_Wiki
[2] https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover