Stenography Accessible for Blind and Visually impaired people

[Daniele Casarola]

I'd like to share with you this video about how is possible also for visually impaired to be a stenographer.

Thanks so much to Plover and Jaws developers to made it possible, thanks a lot.

https://youtu.be/oNlLTbTCRj8

[Owain]

It's interesting

Given the similarities between steno and braille (both use corded keyboards and contractions/briefs) it might be possible for free open steno hardware and software to handle both. Proprietary Braille hardware and software is expensive, and in the UK some prisoners learn braille to transcribe university texts for blind students

Owain

[jessica caudron]

There was an article in the Journal of Court Reporting about a blind court reporter. The article didn't go into detail about what she did to get through court reporting school. But it's certainly possible.

It would be easy to differentiate hardware. I saw this on Facebook a couple days ago. If you are using a steno machine, put keypads, either leather or rubber, on the vowel keys and both Rs. If you are using something with a different key shape, still, use something to mark the vowels and the Rs so you could feel it with your eyes closed, like how computers usually have F and J with raised bumps.

As for software, I don't know anything about the software blind students use to do speech to text, so I'm no help there.

[Ted Morin]

We could adapt a plover plugin for braille keyboard usage as well as adapting nkro keyboards. We'd need someone with experience to take the lead

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[The Michela stenotype system channel]

I've done several experiments about emulating a Perkins Brailler with a steno keyboard (Michela). In my opinion this is a viable option. We must not forget that both Michela and Ireland, at the beginning, had proposed versions of their keyboards specifically designed to be used by the blind (with the paper tape which was imprinted dry to produce points that could be felt by touch). The Perkins Brailler has 6 keys for each braille dot, plus a space bar, a backward and a linefeed key. So is possible to assign each of them to a key on the steno keyboard and mapping them in a Plover dictionary using Braille Unicode characthers. Then, with a separate dictionary, is possible to feed a text to speech engine to listen to the written characters or words and also (if needed) connect a little Braille display via usb. Exactly the same functions offered by a modern (and very expensive) Brailler. It's also possible to provide more evolved version of the Braille keyboard, creating, for instance, a double Braille keyboard capable to write 2 characters at a time and to avoid the space key to be pressed in a separate stroke (the space would instead be pressed together with the last characthers of the word, like in ortographic steno systems). A further step would be to create dictionaries with all the abbreviations used in the more recent Braille theories.

[Mirabai Knight]

This is great stuff, Daniele! Would you mind editing the autocaptions to produce a corrected, punctuated English caption file? I'd love to make a post about this on the Plover Blog, but I have a policy not to post uncaptioned (or uncorrected autocaptioned) videos. Many thanks!!

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[Daniele Casarola]

Mirabai, I've edited the auto english captions to fix and correct them.

Hope it works.

[Mirabai Knight]

Thank you, Daniele!!

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[Mirabai Knight]

Posted! Thanks again for this, Daniele! What a great video!

http://plover.stenoknight.com/2018/11/steno-with-screen-reader.html