Hi everyone,

I am a French living in Japan and now I am currently thinking of using Plover for Japanese chord writing. It is a unique writing method developed from 1995 and only used for Japanese

TV broadcast real-time substitute editing companies. After a long long research, I managed to get a hand on their system called StenoWord (which is now out of patent), which consist of a remap of 10 keys of the keyboard (5 Japanese consonants and 5 Japanese vowels) + a list of 20,000 combinations to form the most basics chords. I would like to point out that both parameters are necessary to use it.
They also use a special dedicated keyboard (made by Canon, but after several tentatives they don't want to sell it all..), that can be easily reproduced with any N-key rollover keyboards.
So the system allows to write at up to 5 characters/seconds (not words) to target a 330 character/min (which is damn fast when knowing that Japanese speak at about 300 characters /min) using as you guessed multi-strikes per time, just like the english version.
Some basic chords of Stenoworlds 2.pdf
Some other more complex chords.pdf

Here is a demo in Japanese:Japanese real-time captioning for live television.

I managed to have it work with the equivalent of Plover on Windows (you can check that maybe??), with the Japanese program calledDvorakJ. It's all in Japanese but tell me if you want to see how to load layout files into it to test it.
It perfectly imported it and activated the keywords chords when writing, but no Mac version at all and kind of tiresome...

So here is a the excel file that contains the data base that would need to be imported into Plover.
The database itself is only the 1 first column of the Config tab (the rest being links to make changes in the dictionary if required)
For reasons I don't know yet, each chord line is written with these weirds |||||||||| signs, that might need to be removed (I hope by some automations...) to have something clean for Plover (however these lines were rightly read of the app DvorakJ so I guess the guy who compiled the data base from the code had a good reason to put them).
I need to say that I have absolutely no skills in coding or html so I am not sure how that could work but I will be willing to collaborate with someone to succeed that. However I speak and write Japanese fluently now so I can be a good hand for the linguistic part.

Please tell me if you need any more information to make this happen!
Meanwhile I can't use at all Plover on my Mac currently (I posted an issue about that) due to a bug that other seem to be experiencing.

Arigato!
Sam
Stenoword_database.xls.zip