[Osdc-edu-authors] [Fwd: Re: DRAFT: open source stenography]

[mel at melchua.com]

Thanks to Ruth Suehle for uploading the article to Drupal. Mirabai and 
I have made some more minor edits but other than the notes below, I 
think it's good to go (feel free to ship it without contacting me from 
here on out).

Stuff remaining:

1. Article title and web link - I'm trying a catchier one ("Typing at 
255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000: Plover, the open source steno system") but 
suggestions welcome. Also, the article link still uses the old title; 
not sure how to get that to switch out for the final one.

2. Article image. The project blog and website, 
http://plover.stenoknight.com/ and 
http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Main_Page, have some cute things - the image 
on the top-left of the latter page is the project's icon. 
http://stenoknight.com/plover/qwertyplovchartwords.png is also a pretty 
nifty image - if we rework it, I can ask Mirabai to explicitly grant it 
a CC-BY-SA license, or maybe to make another version with custom words 
(though I think

3. (optional) in-text pictures/video - it's a long block of text, so 
breaking it up with media may be nice to do. All the good Plover videos 
are on YouTube, though, and I'm not sure what the osdc preference for 
this sort of stuff is. Nevertheless, videos I found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQQzW99cAI - a split-screen 
demonstration of plover, showing Mirabai's hands typing on a keyboard, 
the text output on a monitor, and the steno keys corresponding to what's 
being pressed. Fits anywhere in the article, but may go nicely 
immediately before "Plover isn't just a straight-out copy-paste of 
existing..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I333oAGSOwk - qwerty vs steno matchup 
demonstration, transcribing a voice that progressively speeds up until 
qwerty simply can't keep up any more. Fits anywhere in the article.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3MYFT6VZk8 - a demonstration of Plover 
being used for realtime speech output, possibly right after the 
paragraph ending in "We've reached out to Roger Ebert, but he felt it 
was too much of an old dog new tricks situation. If you know of any 
people with speech disabilities who'd be willing to try it out, please 
let me know.""

I've put the current article text below for those who don't have access 
to unpublished pieces on the Drupal backend, but folks with access can 
see it the unpublished draft at 
http://opensource.com/life/11/12/open-source-changes-face-stenography-and-possibilities-hearing-impaired.

--Mel