StenoTech.edu is A career college based in New Jersey.
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Welcome to StenoTech
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Excerpted from the website:
- Transcription Specialists
- Welcome to StenoTech Career Institute, New Jersey’s premier training site for the voice-to-print specialties of realtime court reporting, rapid text entry, and medical transcription. Our programs focus on the art of creating and preserving the record – medical, legal, and corporate. The demand for court reporters and medical transcriptionists has never been greater, not only in the Garden State but throughout the country. Our goal is to fulfill that demand!
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History of Steno provided by Stenotech.edu
History's first recorded shorthand reporter was Marcus Tullius Tiro, a freed Greek slave. Tiro became Cicero's secretary in the year 63 B.C., and used a metal stylus to report a speech by Cato. Tiro's system was simple, consisting of abbreviations of well-known words. He omitted words that could easily be supplied from memory or by context. This may have been a bit primitive, but it was the stenography of nearly 2,000 years ago.
In was not until 1772 that shorthand was officially recognized in the governments of England. By 1837 interest in the accuracy and speed had become a focal point of the field and Isaac Pitman developed a system of phonetically based shorthand. Pitman's system was continually revised, but was the premier system of shorthand for decades. Its use declined in the United States because of the advent of Gregg shorthand.
John Robert Gregg established his own shorthand school in England in 1888 and several years later he immigrated to the United States where he opened a school in Boston, and then in Chicago. Gregg’s system became the preeminent form of shorthand in the U.S., but the introduction of the Ward Stone Ireland’s high-speed keyboard, still in use on stenotype machines today, eventually ended the Gregg system's popularity. With the advent of newer technologies, it became apparent that something needed to be done to speed up the conversion of shorthand notes into final transcript form. IBM had created early versions of computer-aided transcription software that was revisited in the 1970’s and continues to adapt with the latest technology.
At StenoTech Career Institute, computerized stenotype notes can be instantly translated into Standard English and viewed in real time via CAT software. Graduating reporters can offer improved services to their clients or enter entirely new areas of practice, such as broadcast captioning, realtime in the classroom and reporting to the Internet.
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