Typing on small screens can still be challenging, but today’s keyboard apps still focus on text entry over speech, despite the advances in voice-based computing and the increasing accuracy of speech ...

A new Android keyboard called TalkType puts voice recognition front and center Five years of owning smartphones has conditioned my thumbs to navigate tiny virtual keyboards with speed and precision. I ...

As a tech writer, details matter, so I immediately jumped on using Beeftext when I discovered it. It’s a typing application for Windows (there are alternatives for other operating systems I’ll cover ...

I dislike the feeling of staring at a notification from a friend, a colleague, or even my wife, knowing exactly what I want ...

Even with great hand-tracking, writing anything more than a quick search on Vision Pro’s virtual floating keyboard leaves something to be desired since you’re basically back at the ‘hunt and peck’ ...

If you’ve typed up a long text message on your smartphone, you will know that smartphone keyboards can sometimes be finicky. The keyboard may be sluggish, or your fingers might be too large for the ...

Sorry to tell you this, but you repeat yourself quite a bit. You may not be telling the same Christmas party story on repeat, but you are probably writing the same text message to your friends or ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

When it works, a text shortcut tool can feel like magic. Create a few shortcuts for your most frequently typed phrases or sentences, and you can enter them instantly with just a few keystrokes. With a ...

For as long as we’ve been using Macs to type repetitious bits of text into emails and documents, there’s been TextExpander. One of the original alphabet automators, the typing shortcut utility has ...

Five years of owning smartphones has conditioned my thumbs to navigate tiny virtual keyboards with speed and precision. I imagine many feel the same way, given smartphone owners worldwide are spending ...