1. A method for translating stenographic strokes, the method comprising: receiving a series of stenographic strokes on a stenographic keyboard; creating a table of translations of one or more strokes within the series of strokes; sequentially assigning a score to each of the one or more strokes; determining at least one alternate translation to at least one of the translations in the table of translations by; determining a number of possible ways a single key could be one of added to and taken away from a beginning of the series of stenographic strokes, each of the possible ways corresponding to a dictionary entry in a steno-to-text dictionary having a plurality of dictionary entries, each dictionary entry having an index associated therewith; locating in the steno-to-text dictionary each dictionary entry corresponding with each of the determined possible ways; creating a list of the indices associated with the located dictionary entries; including an index of an untouched entry in the list of the indices; setting a maximum physical key distance N between the indices of the located dictionary entries to be examined; examining at least one index in the list of indices and discarding each of the indices in the list of indices that is within the distance N of the at least one index; for each of the non-discarded indices of the list of indices, locating dictionary entries in the steno-to-text dictionary having an index within N distance of the non-discarded index; evaluating the dictionary entries associated with the non-discarded indices and evaluating the located dictionary entries associated with the indices within the distance N of the non-discarded indices; creating a sequence of ranges that contain potential mis-strokes for the dictionary entry being evaluated; and determining an appropriateness of a match to a word in the steno-to-text dictionary by counting a degree of error; ranking the translations and alternate translations based on an accumulation of the score of the strokes within; and selecting at least one of: one of the ranked translations; and one of the ranked alternate translations, based on a best score.