The switch is only momentary — your preferred method remains the keyboard — so this helps for those single occurrences when you need voice search instead.

How to Switch the Keyboard Back to English & Arabic. On Windows 8 computers in the United States, English is the default keyboard input method. If you speak another language, or you're trying to ...

Sometimes there is no replacement for good old-fashioned, tried-and-true methods. As for mobile devices, with so many options available today, it is really a case of “to each his [or her] own.” When ...

Choose which keyboard/input method you would like to choose. That’s the easiest way to go through them. *The rest of the Android Beginners’ Guide is a one-stop shop for all of those new to ...

One thing I love about the Android platform is the ability to use alternative text input methods. I find swiping around on a keyboard much faster than hunt and peck on a traditional QWERTY layout ...

Apple's US patent 8,542,206 describes an alternative text input method for iOS that incorporates a series of swipe gestures to make touchscreen typing less of a chore.

A standard Taiwanese keyboard lets you use the Zhuyin input method, which is based on an alphabet for sounding out Chinese words that was designed in the early 20 th century.

The Haptix team sees the device as combining the traditional mouse/keyboard input method with touch and getting the best of both worlds.