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== Design and rationale == Contrary to traditional [[QWERTY]] type keyboards, on which a typist usually presses one key at a time to create one character at a time, a Velotype requires the user to press several keys simultaneously, producing [[syllable]]s rather than [[letter (alphabet)|letters]]. A practiced velotypist can produce more text than on a traditional keyboard, as much as 200 [[words per minute]], double the rate of a fast traditional typist. Because of this, Velotypes are often used for live applications, such as [[Subtitle (captioning)|subtitling]] for television and for the [[deaf|hearing impaired]]. The keyboard is an orthographic chord keyboard, very different from phonetic chord keyboards used for verbatim transcription, like the [[stenotype]]. Such chorded phonetic keyboards, such as those manufactured by Stenograph, produce an intermediate [[shorthand]] format in which a combination of phonetics- and spelling-based strokes are translated by software to produce the output. Orthographic keyboards, on the other hand, allow the operator to rely on more traditional spelling in shaping the output, hence the term "orthographic" as opposed to "phonetic". The Velotype-pro contains software that allows the user to create their own abbreviations and short forms in addition to those pre-built into the machine. Stenographic keyboards are generally more difficult to learn than the Velotype, but trained stenotype operators can go faster, even upwards of 300 words per minute. However, if unusual words appear, a typist using a stenotype slows down, while the Velotypist can continue with the same speed, which can go up to 200 words per minute.
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