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A group of keys pressed together on a stenotype machine to write one syllable.
Also known as: Steno chord, Machine shorthand, Stenograph stroke
A stenotype machine writes by chord: several keys are pressed at once and released together, producing one syllable rather than one letter. The keyboard has consonants on the left for the start of a syllable, vowels in the middle and consonants on the right for the end, so a syllable is written in a single motion. The output is a phonetic code that becomes English through a personal dictionary, which is why live captioning fails in a characteristic way — on names and unfamiliar words the dictionary does not hold.
A row of paired rectangular keys with a shorter row of wide keys below them, several shown pressed together as one group.
Both record speech faster than longhand can.