Speech recognition has long been the holy grail of computer data input. Or, rather, we have mostly wanted to control our computers via voice—see episodes of Star Trek from the 1960s. The problem has ...

Whether you’re a lightning-fast typist or just want to experiment with an alternative input tool, I encourage you to give ...

Q: Are there any free voice recognition programs for my computer that are worth trying? A: The pursuit to have computers understand human speech started in the early 1950s when Bell Labs designed a ...

Multiple industry staffs save documentation time using dictation. I will discuss healthcare because physicians need help! Clinicians in healthcare dictate 1.5 to 2 Billion document each year – To save ...

Sometimes a word can be so hard to spell that any attempts are too garbled for autocorrect to offer helpful suggestions. Whenever I find myself struggling to spell a word, I double-tap the Command key ...

Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create new documents, edit them, and collaborate on them with others in real-time. It’s free to use and packed with plenty of valuable features.

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here. Take dictation, for example. As my ...

If you have a PC with a touchscreen without a physical keyboard, a pretty nifty feature that’s native to the Windows OS is the Touch Keyboard which lets click/tap on to enter text. PC users can turn ...