Open Dictionaries

Open dictionaries are open source steno dictionaries developed by members of the community and shared with the community for free, typically in JSON format. They are distinct from User Theories in that they are typically shared with little to no documentation on how to learn the contents of the dictionary file.

Stenodict

You'll find many free, open source steno dictionaries at the Stenodict website.

Purpose	Author	Description
Arrows	Ted Morin	Symbolic arrows → → made easy
Cross Platform Movement	Ted Morin	Movement and selection across Mac, Windows, and Linux
Di’s Mac Movement	Diana MacDonald	Extensive Mac movement and selection
Di’s Vim Commands	Diana MacDonald	Vim and steno were made for each other
Emoji	Ted Morin	Complete Emoji dictionary 😃
General Command Line	Diana MacDonald	Briefs and entries for terminal users
Left Hand Modifier Keys	Achim Siebert	Left-hand keyboard shortcuts in only two strokes
Left-side Mac Movement	Achim Siebert	Left movement shortcuts with selection for Mac
Markdown	Ted Morin	Best markup language meets best text entry system
Pokémon	Ted Morin	First 151 Pokémon written with Plover theory
Spectacle	Ted Morin	Window management with Spectacle, the free application for OS X
UK Spellings	Ted Morin	Replace US spellings in Plover's default dictionary
Unspaced Punctuation	Diana MacDonald	Punctuation with all the spaces suppressed
Vim Captioning	Mirabai Knight	Useful realtime captioning commands for Vim

Stanley Sakai's Steno dictionaries

Stanley Sakai's repository on GitHub - Stanley's Steno Dictionaries

Language	Description
braille.json	A starter dictionary for steno-based Braille input.
smalldict.json	Starter dictionary Mirabai gave Stan as a template (not actively updated or used).
stan-italiano.json	Dictionary started when doing an Italian class. Not very developed.
stanespanol.json	Main Spanish steno dictionary.
stanmain.json	His main English dictionary.
stanplover.json	Additional entries to correct formatting errors caused by RTF -> JSON conversion.

Diana MacDonald's repository

Diana MacDonald's dictionaries. These include symbols, currency, smart punctuation, design, and coding dictionaries.

Other dictionaries

• Emily's Symbol Dictionary and Emily's Modifier Dictionary. The first allows you to type over 100 symbols with adjustable spacing and capitalization, the second allows you to input arbitrary keyboard shortcuts.
• Jade's Phrasing Dictionary, a python dictionary phrasing system that lets you write entire phrases such as "we don't really want to" in one stroke.
• JorWat's British Words, a dictionary of words and phrases found on the Wikipedia page, "Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States".

Dictionaries for non-English languages

Language	Author
Italian	Stanley Sakai
Spanish	Stanley Sakai
French	Aziz Yemloul
Hindi हिन्दी	winston

Note: The above foreign language dictionaries are designed to be used with the English steno keyboard layout, but it is possible to customize the steno layout. For dedicated foreign language steno layouts, see the steno layouts & supported languages page.

Commercial stenography dictionaries

Plover can also work with exported dictionaries from commercial stenography applications such as Eclipse, ProCAT and Case CATalyst. See Dictionary Format page for more information.