
BY TIM WILLERT twillert@opubco.com
April Bloye knew she wanted to be a court reporter the first time she laid eyes on a shorthand machine.
A friend was going to court reporting school and Bloye was intrigued by her stenotype, a specialized keyboard with piano-like keys that spell out whole syllables, words and phrases when pressed at the same time.
“I said, ‘I need to know how this thing works,'” Bloye, 46, recalled recently from her office at the Oklahoma County Courthouse.
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