Fact · Voice and AI
2.7times
English speech input on a phone, at 153 words per minute, is about 2.7 times the 2026 home brain-computer interface average of 56 words per minute.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- Speech on a phone is measured on short read phrases by people without a disability. The implant figure comes from one participant's home use.
- How it is calculated
- 153 / 56 = 2.73
- What it does not show
- Different people, conditions and measures, so the ratio shows the gap in typical rates, not a head-to-head test.
Calculated from
- In a controlled study on an iPhone, English text entered by speech reached 153 words per minute, against 52 words per minute on the built-in keyboard, 2.93 times faster.
- In the 2026 Nature Medicine study, the participant communicated with the speech BCI at home at an average rate of 56 words per minute over almost two years of use.