Back when I was a Clerk-Typist in the Civil Service, a much more impressive level of administrative employee was Secretary-Steno. You would think that converting a standard shorthand form into speech would be a fairly basic piece of programming. If you can do it with Japanese ...
Recent research has shown that students taking notes on a computer retain significantly less information and have worse comprehension than those who take notes by hand (either print or cursive). I wonder if that would be the same with shorthand. The very fastest typists don’t remember what they’ve typed.
"Recent research has shown that students taking notes on a computer retain significantly less information and have worse comprehension than those who take notes by hand (either print or cursive)."
I noted the same finding in my research prior to posting my comments about cursive writing. It was found that writing in cursive allowed better retention of notated information than directly typing it into a database of some kind.
This would indicate that there is a heirarchy of task-performance operating here; one can be busy translating information from one form to another, or one can be busy trying to record information being presented verbally, but it is difficult to do both at the same time.
If I’m going to recall something later, I need to write it down. Such as grocery items. Then, if I forget the list, I can get most of the things on it. Compared to pre-CFIDS when I could get everything on it...