Fact · Typing and writing speed
In a 2022 mobile text-entry study, speech recognition was faster than typing, but the error rate for typing was lower.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“speech recognition was faster, while the error rate for typing was lower”
Speech Recognition Versus Typing: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation, Johanna Kneifel et al., TEXT2030: MobileHCI 2022 Workshop on Shaping Text Entry Research in 2030 (ACM), 2022, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The same 2022 workshop study that measured entry speed by speech and by typing on a mobile device.
- What it does not show
- The error rate is the one the paper reports for its transcription task. It does not say how many errors remained after editing, so it does not measure the finished text.