9. A stenographic device, comprising: a plurality of keys operable to receive a series of stenographic strokes; a steno-to-text dictionary of words operably associated with a processor; and the processor operable to: create a table of translations of one or more strokes within the series of stenographic strokes using the steno-to-text dictionary; sequentially assign a score to each of the one or more strokes; determine at least one alternate translation to at least one of the translations in the table of translations, the at least one alternate translation determined using at least one of a phonetic matching algorithm and an approximate matching algorithm, the at least one alternate translation beginning with a first stroke in the series of stenographic strokes; rank the translations and alternate translations based on an accumulation of the score of the strokes within the series of stenographic strokes; and select at least one of: one of the ranked translations from the table of translations; and one of the ranked alternate translations, based on a best score.
9. A stenographic device, comprising: a plurality of keys operable to receive a series of stenographic strokes; a steno-to-text dictionary of words operably associated with a processor; and the processor operable to: create a table of translations of one or more strokes within the series of stenographic strokes using the steno-to-text dictionary; sequentially assign a score to each of the one or more strokes; determine at least one alternate translation to at least one of the translations in the table of translations, the at least one alternate translation determined using at least one of a phonetic matching algorithm and an approximate matching algorithm, the at least one alternate translation beginning with a first stroke in the series of stenographic strokes; rank the translations and alternate translations based on an accumulation of the score of the strokes within the series of stenographic strokes; and select at least one of: one of the ranked translations from the table of translations; and one of the ranked alternate translations, based on a best score. 15. The stenographic device according to claim 9 , further comprising a steno-to-text dictionary of words and a stenographic phonetics table both operably associated with the processor, the processor being operable to: determine at least one phonetic variation of individual ones of the stenographic strokes; determine all words in a spelling dictionary that fit the variations for the series of stenographic strokes; compare the determined words to contents of the stenographic phonetics table; and assign a score to each comparison.