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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Real Time Handwriting Recognition
Keywords: Typing
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Date: 11 Jan 89 14:50:34 GMT
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In article <202@maths.tcd.ie> gwills@maths.tcd.ie (Graham Wills) writes:
 
< A newly-trained secretary (3 mths training) can usually type at around
< 40 w.p.m. and take shorthand at 80 w.p.m. I know of one sec. who has an
< official recorded time of over 200 w.p.m. Beat that with typing.

I wonder how well another trained secretary could READ shorthand taken at
200 w.p.m. (I don't know anything about shorthand.) But if the 200 wpm
shorthand is not readable by computer (remember this whole discussion is
about input devices), then it wouldn't do much good. 

Shirley Kehr