Velotype

Velotype is the old trademark for a type of keyboard for typing text known as a syllabic chord keyboard, an invention of the Dutchmen Nico Berkelmans and Marius den Outer. The current tradename is Veyboard. Veyboard is a Dutch company.

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 Veyboard requires the user to press several keys simultaneously, producing syllables rather than letters.

A practiced "veyboarder" 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, Veyboards are often used for live applications, such as subtitling for television and for the hearing impaired.

The keyboard is an orthographic chord keyboard, very different from chorded phonetic keyboards used for verbatim transcription, such as Stenotype. Chorded phonetic keyboards, such as the Stenograph, produce an intermediate shorthand format in which homophones, such as the words "know" and "no", can be coded identically. Orthographic keyboards, on the other hand, give the operator full freedom in shaping the output text, allowing him to adhere to proper grammar and spelling (hence the term "orthographic"). A Veyboarder can thus produce "polished" text in a single pass. Stenography keyboards are generally more difficult to learn than the Veyboard, but trained operators can go faster, even as high as 300 words per minute.

ee also

* chording keyboard
* Stenotype
* Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

External links

*nl icon [http://www.veyboard.nl Veyboard]