

And all participants were between 19 and 32 years old.

To make the conditions as authentic as possible, the human subjects were also allowed to use autocorrect and word suggestions. In the experiment, 32 individuals would either type on a QWERTY smartphone keyboard or speak sample phrases such as "physics and chemistry are hard," "have a good weekend" and "go out for some pizza and beer." The study, a collaboration between Stanford University, Baidu and the University of Washington, also found that the system produced 20.4 percent fewer errors than people typing in English and 63.8 percent fewer than people working in Mandarin. Mark Zuckerberg's First Stop in China: Baidu Headquarters
