[ noun ] someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) <noun.person>
Stenographer \Ste*nog"ra*pher\, n. One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.
Frances earned her money as a stenographer and Elsie was a sales manager and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 50 years.
A court stenographer has been charged with leaking secret grand jury testimony to her husband, a defendant in a Mafia heroin case.
Add to that a dozen defense lawyers, four or five for the government, the 12 jurors and three alternates, court clerks and stenographer and the court takes on the appearance of a Roman Forum.