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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
eli5: How does does stenography work? I understand it is designed to allow fast recording of realtime statements in a courtroom…But how does the machine allow us do this?
gpt
Typing on a regular keyboard is slower than speaking so doesn’t work in a court setting. Stenography machines work by typing syllables using multiple keys at once instead of each key being one letter.  So instead of typing 11 letters one at a time for Stenography, you’d type four chords for sten, awg, ruff, and ee.  Then later that phonetic version gets transcribed back into normal spellings.