Typing with your voice – dictating text – has become an extremely common way to communicate. Better yet, you don't even need a stenographer. (Now I'm dating myself) I recently watched a friend quietly ...

The arrival of the smartphone made mobile messaging infinitely easier, but for those who some reason still miss typing out long messages on a tiny nine-button keypad, Guy Dupont has created a compact ...

In this guide we’ll show you how to quickly and easily send and receive texts from your computer on Android. This works on any PC, laptop, Mac or iPad, and you can text friends with an iPhone too.

You can use the speech-to-text feature on Windows to dictate text in any window, document, or field that you could ordinarily type in. To get started with speech-to ...

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 ...

For the first time ever a team of researchers says it has deployed a brain-computer interface (or BCI) to decode the neural signals that represent the writing of letters and turn them into text. A ...

Use Google Lens to extract & copy text from images with ease. Transfer copied text to a computer with the "Copy to computer" ...

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Researchers have, for the first time, decoded the neural signals associated with writing letters, then displayed typed versions of these letters in real time. They hope their invention could one day ...