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Looking for More Advocates for Decrypting Stenographic Record of Public Meetings

Looking for more folks advocating Boston City Council President https://www.boston.gov/departments/city-council/andrea-campbell decrypt the Stenographic Record of City Council Public Meetings for hard of hearing folks, for all folks. Currently the Steno is only made available .sgstn unintelligibly encrypted. Public funded, the edited on site Steno Record Document is more complete than Minutes,...

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Re:Ask HN: How can I stop receiving spam phone calls? on Thursday March 15, 2018 @03:33PM (#16595876)
What information from potential users do you ask for?... to setup NoMoRobo on landlines.
Re:I'm giving up on PGP on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @07:10PM (#13119421)
?What experiences have folks with ZixMail https://www.zixcorp.com/why-zix/email-encryption

Advocating for an Online Searchable Full Transcript of Boston City Council

Advocating for an Online Searchable Full Transcript of Boston City Council for ESL English Second Language folks, hard of hearing folks, the Deaf Community is challenging. The Council President takes some steps in this direction. Yet the Stenographic Record of Public Meetings of Boston City Council continues to be out of...

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Ask HN: Trying to Extract Roll Call Votes of Cambridge City Council

Any ideas, hints, tips, pointers?...Trying to extract Roll Call Votes of Cambridge City Council. The challenge is that Roll Call Votes are embedded in Council Documents, for examplehttp://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/councilor_votes/CMA_4380_20150622_20150622_letter.PDFathttp://www2.cambridgema.gov/cityclerk/cmLetter.cfm?item_id=34162

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Re:How do you decode .sgstn stenograph stenonote? on Saturday June 01, 2013 @02:48AM (#5803056)
The issue is now getting the dictionary file used by the Boston City Council stenographer (or re-creating it, by matching the decoded steno "chords" to what's spoken during the video of the Council meeting).

How do you decode .sgstn stenograph stenonote?

How do you decode the .sgstn stenograph stenonote of the public stenographic record of the Public Meetings of Boston City Council. The public stenographic record of Public Meetings is made available in .sgstn stenograph stenonote not full plain English text.

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