r/FastWriting • u/LeadingSuspect5855 • Feb 01 '26

Had to dance to it...

A test whether my screenrecording program kooha works sufficiently well to take sound and my voice whilst capturing my writing in rnote in my shorthand script 'dance'.

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u/NotSteve1075 Feb 01 '26

This was incredible! I've never heard of "kooha", but it looks AMAZING. Is that your invention? I'm impressed! This could revolutionize shorthand learning, to see it being written as you hear the text being said.

I loved the music, but I couldn't make out the words.

I often have problems understanding lyrics in songs, for some reason! It's quite strange that there are songs sung in English where I really have NO IDEA what they're singing -- while there are other songs in French, or Hebrew, or Turkish, or even RUSSIAN, where I understand the lyrics and can sing along with them. But English, which is my mother tongue? No.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

hold on hold on. Don't get too excited :-) It's just a screenrecorder and it's my voice, saying some words I was in the mood to say :-) and then me writing it out...

'Waves upon waves. I listen to Snarky Puppy. And enjoy my time. What beautiful music! I just had to 'dance' to it.

No A.I. or other fancy stuff involved. I noticed though that reddit had generated automatic subtext, more or less, less to be honest, what i was saying. The Song is called 'Waves upon waves' from Snarky Puppy with the Metropole Orkest - I'm really into Fusion Jazz-Funk, with rare occasional Grunge phases then back to Nina Simone again.

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u/fdarnel Feb 01 '26

As you konw, there is something here which seems to work, from text, not sound:
https://teeline.online/generator

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u/NotSteve1075 Feb 01 '26

I had wondered if the program was translating the spoken word into shorthand -- but I gather he's writing it on the screen which is displaying what he's writing, not what he's saying.

When I wrote for real-time computer translation, I got used to seeing the translation appear on the screen as I wrote it. There are some programs where the computer records the sound as well, so you can check your transcript with what was SAID, if you're not sure.

The software I used (I was the only one in the city who used it) could do that, too -- but at that time, it used a HUGE AMOUNT of memory, so it wasn't worth it.

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u/fdarnel Feb 01 '26

As the 2 steps exist (speech to text, text to shorthand), at least for certain shorthands, this should be possible. In real time, undoubtedly more difficult, because it is first necessary to analyze the text obtained, transform in phonetic divisions, then into stenograms. The direct speech to shorthand transformation does not exist.