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f_allwein on Aug 31, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Ma...

I use Swype, which is significantly faster than typing - maybe a good alternative if you don't want to speak to your phone in public.

http://www.swype.com

Then I guess we'll get used to people speaking to their phones very soon, just as we got used to people talking on mobile phones back in the day.

montibbalt on Sept 1, 2016 [–]

I'll have to try when I get home, but I'm curious how speech recognition will do against the message chosen for the touchscreen record. I'm not 100% sure how to even pronounce a couple of the words: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/5/fastest-touc...

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