Automatic Steno translation

Abstract

The first preliminary computer translation of machine produced stenographic notes was described in Salton 1959. Since then other approaches have been suggested but none seem to have succeeded. In the meantime the need for a solution becomes more and more pressing. The impetus for a solution is coming from two user areas—court reporting and speech recognition. The purpose of this paper is to describe the problems and solutions to the problems of automatic Steno-English translation.