I cannot repeat what he said; I was too much engrossed to take my note-book out, and begin to stenograph his story.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
The phonograph is, however, being used for direct stenograph work, and it reported verbatim 40,000 words of discussion at one convention held in 1890, the words being quietly repeated into the machine by the reporter as quickly as they were uttered by the various speakers.
"The-Romance-of-Industry-and-Invention"
Cochrane, Robert