9. A stenographic device, comprising: a stenographic keyboard including a plurality of keys operable to receive a series of stenographic strokes; and a processor operable to: create a table of translations of one or more strokes within the series of strokes; 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 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 discard each of the indices in the list of indices that is within the distance N of the at least one index; locating dictionary entries in the steno-to-text dictionary having an index within N distance of each of the non-discarded indices; evaluating the dictionary entries associated with the non-discarded indices and evaluate the located dictionary entries associate 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 to determine the at least one alternate translation; rank the translations and alternate translations based on an accumulation of the score of the strokes within; and select at least one of: one of the ranked translations; and one of the ranked alternate translations, based on a best score.
9. A stenographic device, comprising: a stenographic keyboard including a plurality of keys operable to receive a series of stenographic strokes; and a processor operable to: create a table of translations of one or more strokes within the series of strokes; 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 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 discard each of the indices in the list of indices that is within the distance N of the at least one index; locating dictionary entries in the steno-to-text dictionary having an index within N distance of each of the non-discarded indices; evaluating the dictionary entries associated with the non-discarded indices and evaluate the located dictionary entries associate 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 to determine the at least one alternate translation; rank the translations and alternate translations based on an accumulation of the score of the strokes within; and select at least one of: one of the ranked translations; and one of the ranked alternate translations, based on a best score. 16. The stenographic device according to claim 9 , wherein the processor is further operable to: compare the sequence of ranges containing potential mis-strokes with the beginning of the series of stenographic strokes received on the stenographic keyboard to determine whether keys could have been one of unnecessarily added to and inadvertently not added to the beginning of the series of stenographic strokes, the unnecessarily added keys being keys that were accidentally pressed, the inadvertently not added keys being keys that were not pressed but should have been pressed; and if it is determined that keys were unnecessarily added to the beginning of the series of stenographic strokes, the processor is operable to: assign a first weight to unnecessarily added keys that are relatively proximate a target key; and assign a second weight, greater than the first weight, to unnecessarily added keys that are relatively distant from the target key; and if it is determined that keys were inadvertently not added to the beginning of the series of stenographic strokes, the processor is operable to assign the second weight to the keys inadvertently not added, wherein the first weight is more desirable than the second weight.