Velotype
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Velotype is the trademark for a type of keyboard for typing text, known as a syllabic chord keyboard.
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 Velotype requires the user to press several keys simultaneously, producing syllables rather than letters.
A practiced Velotypist can produce more text than on a traditional keyboard, as much as 140 words per minute, double the rate of a fast traditional typist. Because of this, Velotypes are often used for live applications, such as subtitling for the hearing impaired.
The keyboard differs in its approach to phonetic keyboards also used for verbatim transcription, such as the Stenography system, which depend on phonetic codes representing speech. Those are generally more difficult to learn than Velotype but trained operators can go faster, as high as 200 words per minute.
Velotype is a Dutch company.
External link
Velotype (http://www.velotype.com)