Fact · Typing and writing speed
In the 2022 mobile study, speech recognition needed fewer operations per character on average than typing.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Speech recognition needed fewer operations per character on average”
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, Results (section 4).
Open the original- What it measures
- An operation is an input action, such as a key press, a gesture or a correction, that the study counted per character of the final phrase.
- What it does not show
- The count is per character of the phrase, so it depends on how the study defined an operation. The same results section also reports a significant effect on the rate of backspaces, which is a separate count.