The average person types between 35 and 40 words per minute, but that same person can likely speak at 100 to 130 words per minute. Writing is clearly not as effective as speaking in terms of raw ...

Q: I’m terrible at typing. It’s slow and painful. But I can talk up a storm. Is there any way I can talk or dictate content to my computer rather than struggle with the keyboard? A: Yes! There are ...

Sometimes a word can be so hard to spell that any attempts are too garbled for autocorrect to offer helpful suggestions. Whenever I find myself struggling to spell a word, I double-tap the Command key ...

Question: Is there a voice-recognition system that can replace typing that actually works well? Answer: As much as technology has advanced since Bell Labs developed the Audrey in the 1950s, which ...

Typing long blocks of text on a mobile device can get pretty tiresome after awhile, and it’s really just kind of annoying. We already showed you how to set up text expansion so that you’re typing can ...

Although there is some noticeable delay between speaking the words and seeing them appear on-screen, Google Docs has a reasonably accurate voice to text transciption tool. It’s also surprisingly good ...

I’m not typing this article. I’m dictating it to my iPhone as I walk down the busy city street on the way to my office in the West Village. Admittedly the iPhone’s speech-recognition features went ...

Apple didn’t spend much of the WWDC presentation going over the new dictation, but I think many users will find the improvements here to be some of their favorites with the new operating system. iOS ...

I didn't learn to type until I was almost 30 and about to buy my first Mac. That said, I'm pretty good at it and type around 50 words a minute. While I've now got millions and millions of typed words ...

Google is adding voice dictation and voice typing to Google Docs. A post by Marques Brownlee on Google+ shows screen shots of him seeing the voice button within the Google Docs menu. He said, "you saw ...

It seems like wherever you look, voice control and dictation are getting added to every app, operating system, and game console. We like to make fun of how badly it works, but I decided to dive in ...