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Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

Next Day Video · 108.9K views · 2013-03-21 · 34:21

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Overview

Mirabai Knight's PyCon 2013 talk on Plover, a free cross-platform stenography engine that lets people write at up to 240 WPM on ordinary hardware, including a demo of coding by steno.

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HN's standard reference when typing speed, ergonomics, or alternative input comes up, for its live demo and the open-source steno ecosystem.

Recommended by 8 HN people across 8 months · HN mentions 2014–2023

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zeta0134 · 2023-04 · Strong recommendation

Yes! Here is a really great talk on the state of doing so, with a fantastic realtime demo near the end. Mirabai live-codes using her Plover setup and narrates her thought process as she types out each command. [VIDEO]

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jarmitage · 2021-06 · Strong recommendation

Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves: [VIDEO] Inspired me to try to create a live coding musical instrument based on it: [LINK] / [LINK]

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melling · 2023-01 · Recommendation

Over the past decade there have been some interesting discussions about Plover on HN [LINK] The video in the first result was good: [VIDEO]

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