Most people think that shorthand is the traditional handwritten shorthand. The recorded manuscript is a tadpole-shaped symbol, and it takes some time for the symbol to be converted into words. However, computer shorthand, which is emerging at present, records pure text information, which is completely different from the traditional shorthand technology. It can ensure complete synchronization with voice. For example, the computer stenographer is the hero behind the subtitles in live TV.
The customers of computer shorthand company mainly include public relations companies, media, institutions, internet companies, especially portals. For example, Sina spends a lot of money on shorthand every month. Guests visiting chat rooms will ask for professional shorthand. When they are busy, there are seven shows a day. In addition, computer shorthand is also widely used in important meetings, negotiations, lawyers' evidence collection, court hearings, reporters' interviews and other fields held by industries or enterprises, especially in some important occasions that are not suitable for recording. Computer shorthand has become a fast and effective way to save files and information.
Although the computer shorthand industry is still in the stage of manual workshop, it has great development prospects. In Beijing, there are more than a dozen computer shorthand companies, all of which are very small, with an average of 4 to 5 people in each company, and some companies even have only one person to fight alone. At present, there are less than 100 qualified stenographers in Beijing, which is far from meeting the market demand.
The insiders believe that the status quo of this industry is "there is no business in the market". Take the Beijing market as an example. There are 200 meetings in Beijing every day on average, and less than110 actually uses shorthand. The talents in the industry can't even meet this110, which has become the bottleneck restricting its large-scale operation. At present, there is a shortage of computer stenographers in China. There are only more than 1000 computer stenographers in China, and no more than 100 people have reached the level of senior stenographers. At present, the number of computer stenographers in Shenzhen is very small, and most of them are concentrated in courts and other departments, while TV stations, radio stations, newspapers and many large enterprises have no fixed stenographers.
At present, shorthand service charges 1200 yuan ~ 1500 yuan every day. The income of people engaged in this industry generally adopts the way of salary plus commission. The average monthly income of senior computer stenographers is between 4,000 and 5,000 yuan, and the monthly income of junior stenographers can reach 10,000 yuan at the peak of business, and 2000-3,000 yuan. It is reported that not only shorthand companies, but also many enterprises and institutions are considering setting up computer stenographers or secretarial staff with shorthand skills to improve office efficiency. Experts believe that at least in 10 years, Chinese speech recognition technology will not pose a threat to Chinese computer shorthand, so this profession is still promising at present.
At present, there are not many professional stenographers who can really reach the meeting record level, and skilled stenographers have become the object of competition among companies. The threshold for learning shorthand is very low, as long as you have a high school or technical secondary school education and a certain language expression ability, you are under 35 years old. However, to become a professional stenographer, we should not only learn the fingering and operation of the stenographer, but also learn the basic theory of speech recognition and recording skills. In addition, you have to go through a lot of practice and internship-speed is practiced.
The labor intensity of computer shorthand is not low Generally speaking, each shorthand session takes about two hours. During this period, the stenographer's nerves are highly nervous, because the participants will only say it once and will not repeat it, which determines that the stenographer can't relax for a moment, especially when some speakers are mixed with dialects and English, they should concentrate and distinguish carefully.