I attended a gathering in Richmond Theatre, at which the then mayor and members of the Greater London Authority were available for public questioning. It was very impressive that their words almost immediately appeared on a screen courtesy of a voice recognition system. How is it done?
Grahame Money
What I believe to be the best PC speech recognition program available - Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 - can't do that. It's done by skilled "Palantypists" or speech-to-text reporters using a special V-shaped Palantype keyboard. You may have seen them used to record court proceedings.
An alternative system is Stenography, using a Stenotype keyboard, hence the "Stenographers" in American courts. They are fast because the operator types phonemes instead of individual letters.
