Talking Typer

Talking Typer is a software tool whose purpose is to help you in learning how to write with your keyboard faster through some interactive lessons, and integrates a text-to-speech function.

The installation process you are required to go through lasts only a few seconds and does not bring any kind of unpleasant surprises. Once you are done with it, you come face to face with a minimal, yet not pretty appealing GUI. Nevertheless, it is comprised of a menu bar, a few buttons and a pane to view results.

Moreover, extensive Help contents are integrated. Consequently, we can safely say that all types of users can find their way around Talking Typer, including those with little or no previous experience with the IT world.

Take lessons, play games and explore the keyboard

This tool comes with a pretty long list of lessons you can take advantage of, each of them being dedicated to specific elements, such as home keys for the left or the right hand, brackets, braces, phrases and number keys.

Aside from these lessons, you should know it is possible to access some dictations, play a game in which you have to write the letters or symbols spoken as fast as you can or just explore the keyboard, a feature which is going to read out loud all the keys you press.

It is possible to create your own lessons, add students and organize them into groups and create passwords for each login account. The font type, style, size and color can be changes, as well as the rate and volume of the voice.

Through a user-friendly interface, an array of lessons and games, and many customizable options, Talking Typer proves to be a pretty useful piece of software for those interested in learning to write faster on the keyboard. The CPU and memory usage is low at all times, and the response time is good.