The Email That Never Gets Sent
Picture this: You're commuting on the train, and an important work email lands in your inbox. You need to respond immediately, but you're holding onto a pole with one hand while gripping your smartphone with the other. You start typing with your thumb—pecking away, making typos, backspacing, retyping. By the time you finish your response, you've spent twelve minutes on what should have taken three.
Welcome to voice typing—the productivity tool that's been hiding in plain sight. Modern voice typing powered by artificial intelligence can transcribe your words with over 95% accuracy, clean up your grammar in real-time, and have your message ready to send without a single edit.
The Speed Gap: Speaking vs. Typing
Voice typing speed far exceeds traditional keyboard entry. The average person types at about 40 words per minute. Meanwhile, the average person speaks at 150 words per minute—that's almost 4x faster.
A Stanford University study confirmed that smartphone speech-to-text is significantly faster than typing on a mobile keyboard. A 500-word email that takes 12 minutes to type can be dictated in just 3 minutes.
The Hidden Productivity Multiplier
The real multiplier comes from the editing phase. Traditional speech-to-text requires substantial cleanup. But tools like Zavi AI act as an editor-in-chief, removing filler words and fixing grammar instantly. When voice typing removes the editing burden, the productivity multiplier isn't just 4x faster—it's genuinely transformative.