TalkType is a free third-party Android keyboard from the Chinese web services company Baidu that replaces the QWERTY key interface with a big microphone button, which it claims is more accurate than actual typing. To prove that speech recognition is indeed superior, Baidu teamed up with Stanford University for a study that tested the firm's Deep Speech 2 software, which beat humans at typing faster than you can say Deep Blue. The study, performed with 32 texters between 19 and 32 years old, showed that Baidu's tech is three times faster than typing in English, with an error rate 20.4 percent lower than someone hunting and pecking on the screen.



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