1. A stenographic keyboard for generating unique, computer readable and translatable signals to provide unambiguous and context independent translation of a stenographic record comprising, from bottom to top: a lower row of four vowel keys, which from left to right are A O E U; a lower middle row of keys arranged to define a first left hand group, a first center group and a first right hand group, the first left hand group keys, from left to right are Z, S, C, W, R, the first center group defining a first stroke ambiguity resolution key, and the first right hand group of keys, from left to right, are R, B, G, S, Z; an upper middle row of keys arranged to define a second left hand group, a second center group and a second right hand group, the second left hand group of keys from left to right are "first control key", K, T, P, H, the second center group defining a second stroke ambiguity resolution key and the second right hand group of key, from left to right are V, P, L, T, D; and a top row of individually operable keys defining control keys for controlling computers in a first mode and defining ambiguity resolution keys for resolving stroking ambiguities in a second mode.