> Free calculator: put in how much you write and how fast you type and speak, and see the minutes dictation saves you each day, week and year, counting the time to fix its mistakes.

# Speaking vs typing calculator

Put in how much you write each day and how fast you type and speak. The calculator counts the time to fix wrong words too, because a dictation that's fast but wrong isn't faster.

Words you write a dayMessages, notes, emails, docs
Days you write a week
Your typing speed, words a minuteType for one minute and count
Your speaking speed, words a minuteRead a paragraph aloud for one minute
Dictation word error rate, %7% was the best in [our test](https://usecaddie.app/research/dictation-accuracy)
Seconds to fix one wrong wordFind it, select it, retype it

**–**saved a day

**–**saved a week

**–**saved a year (48 weeks)

**–**faster than typing

## How it works

- **Typing time** is the words you write divided by your typing speed.

- **Dictating time** is the words divided by your speaking speed, plus the time to fix the words dictation gets wrong: words × error rate × seconds per fix.

- A week counts the days you write. A year counts 48 working weeks.

The starting values are round numbers for you to replace, not measurements. The error rate matters most: in [our dictation accuracy test](https://usecaddie.app/research/dictation-accuracy) the apps ranged from 7.0% to 25.5% wrong words on the same clips. At 25% wrong words and 2 seconds a fix, you spend longer fixing than speaking.

In a lab study on an iPhone, English speech input was 2.93 times faster than the on-screen keyboard: 153 words a minute against 52 ([Ruan, Wobbrock, Liou, Ng and Landay, 2016](https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07323)).

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