A creator built an Anki add-on to teach stenography, a hand-based input method five times faster than QWERTY typing. The system gives instant audio feedback, tracks mistakes, and structures learning as video-game levels with thresholds: 90% accuracy, 50 chords per minute, and 1,000 chords to advance. It maps steno keys to piano notes so you hear what you type.
"Pop." "Red flag." "Pop." "152." "Pause." "Red flag." "Undo." "Set." "Has." "Soft." "Soft." "Set." "Short." "Has." "But." "At." So in this system, I'm using Anki, which is a spaced repetition software which is used to learn languages, and I'm using it to learn stenography, which is a language involving movements of the hand which correspond to phonemes. The phonemes are then constructed into words or commands which control a computer, and I think it's a sub-level Neuralink because it's 5 times faster than a QWERTY keyboard, and it's faster than human speech, and quite quite hard to learn. So the learning process is the difficulty with stenography. So that's why I'm trying to invent software to help me learn it. There is software already out there called TypeyType, which is very good. And I want to try and gamify the process, so I've made levels. So in order to get through this level, you have to type 20 words such that your accuracy is greater than 90%. This red line denotes 90%. Longest sequence of successfully struck chords must be greater than 100, and your chords per minute must be greater than 50. So let's go and see if we can get to the next level. Now, my Anki add-on system is such that when I strike a correct chord, it makes a ding sound, and when I strike an incorrect chord, it tells me how many correct ones I've— I have to strike 1,000 chords to get through the level, and then it'll measure my accuracy as I go along.
So let's go. 23.
See, I struck a wrong chord there, and it, uh, it vocalized how many I've done so far. If I strike one incorrectly, it saves it and it gives it to me later using the spaced repetition system inside Anki. I'm trying to turn the process of learning stenography into a video game as best I can, with levels that you have to complete. And this is the second level. I'll show you the first level just now. "Nantiku." Okay, so if we go to "Decks," the first level is "Letter Location." So let's hit the This level teaches you where each letter is located on the steno keyboard. So this first level just teaches steno learners how to touch type using the steno machine. And the different quadrants on the keyboard are colored.
27. 29.
This sound gets a little bit annoying after a bit. Droll, the Stenomachine is like a superior piano because you can play a chord which changes the scale that you're playing. And they're very accessible, so it's like a superior piano keyboard. The piano keyboard was invented in Germany in the 1600s or 1700s, and this is like using modern technology. This would be an upgrade to the piano keyboard. So just for fun, using a Writer's Lair program, I mapped the steno keys to a piano keyboard, and here's what it sounds like.
Titti.
