Fact · Typing and writing speed
In a 2022 mobile text-entry study, speech recognition produced a significant difference in entry speed in words per minute against typing, with a large effect size, and speech was the faster method.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“We observed a significant effect on entry speeds in terms of words per minute (WPM), F(1,195) = 343, p < .001, with a large effect size”
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
- Participants transcribed a predetermined set of phrases on a mobile device, once with speech recognition and once by typing. The paper uses a one-way ANOVA with alpha 0.05.
- What it does not show
- The paper reports the effect as a statistic and shows the words per minute of each condition in a figure, not in the text. It is a short workshop paper with a transcription task, not long documents.