Feather, a One-Handed Steno Theory

The ingenuity of the Open Steno community never fails to amaze me. Check out Feather, an attempt currently in progress to make a workable one-handed steno theory! How cool!!

Jarne Firmware Update

Tharelia says:

Further update for Jarne users: April 6 evening build will now automatically migrate your user dictionary from on-chip flash to external flash, and update to the latest dictionary storage version at the same time.

This has several advantages:

* The external flash is rated for 100k writes, instead of 10k writes.

* The external flash is much larger. The user dictionary on the Jarne has expanded to 1MB instead of 256kb (compare with 512kb on pico boards)

You can see it's worked as you'll be on version 3 and have larger hash and data block usages available after.

Froj!

StenoHarri made Froj, a shorthand dictionary generator:

Froj converts Edinburgh's pronunciation dictionary into stenography outlines using theory rules and brute force.

Every rule depends on four things:

Spelling

Phonetics

previous keys

Prefixes/roots/compounds/suffixes

Every rule outputs three things:

chord

ambiguity (for conflict resolution)

description (for FrojBot)