Fastest Time to Input a Chinese Sentence on a Tablet by Voice

China

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Beihu-Chenzhou-Hunan, SAR, China / November 1, 2026

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, China, dictated 举头望明月,低头思故乡。 into a tablet by voice in 3.00 seconds; the line, from Li Bai's poem Quiet Night Thoughts, means "I raise my head to gaze at the bright moon, and lower it to think of home." In one continuous clip, Yanhao starts a smartwatch stopwatch from 00:00.00, holds the keyboard's voice key, speaks the line and stops the watch at 00:03.00 once all ten characters and both punctuation marks show correctly on screen. RecordSetter checked the run frame by frame against the watch and the soundtrack. Homesick at the speed of speech.

Tags: speech, typing, technology, fastest, poetry, Chinese, tablet, voice

Rules

- Dictate the sentence 举头望明月,低头思故乡。 exactly as written, including the comma and the full stop
- Use a tablet; the device's built-in dictation or any third-party voice input method may be used
- Speak the sentence live into the voice input; typing is allowed only to fix recognition errors, and no pasting, text replacement shortcuts, saved phrases or recorded audio
- The finished text must match the sentence exactly, characters and punctuation; errors must be fixed before the timer stops, and the time spent fixing them counts
- Timing starts on a stopwatch reading to hundredths of a second, started from zero on camera before the voice input key is pressed, and stops once the complete, correct sentence shows on screen
- Must be one continuous, unedited video with sound, showing the tablet screen and the stopwatch throughout
- Must follow form of current world record holder
- Must provide video evidence
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