What is Stenography? What its advantages?

Stenography is a art of recording words in shorthand language. This art is very
familiar in courtrooms.Shorthand is an symbolic writing method that increases speed
of writing as compared to a common method of writing a language. The doing of writing
in shorthand is called stenography.

Types of Shorthand

Many forms of stenography exist. A typical stenography system provides symbols or
contraction for words and common phrases, which can allow someone to write as
quickly as people speak. The contraction methods are alphabets-based and use
different contractions approaches. Many autocomplete programs, starter or integrated
in text editors, based on word lists, also include a shorthand function for some frequently
used phrases. Many journalists use stenography writing to quickly take notes at press
conferences or other similar courtrooms.

History of Stenography

Stenography was used more than the other methods used in the past, before the
invention of recording and dictations machine. Stenography was known an important
part of secret training police and commando work, as well as very useful for journalists.
Although the first use of shorthand has to record oral dictations. Some systems are
used for compact impression. For eg. Healthcare professionals should use shorthand
notes in medicalcharts and conformity. Shorthand notes are typically temporary,
used either for immediate use and for later typing, data entry, or translating to
longhand, although longer terms uses do exist, such as procedure diaries.