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Data on voice technology, typing, email, meetings, learning differences and clinician workload. Every number links to the organisation that ran the study and carries the date of its data. We don't copy figures from other roundups.

Research pages
10
Primary-source citations
1,476
Charts from the original sources
60
Last updated, refreshed monthly
October 2026

Voice technology

Voice assistants, speech recognition accuracy, typing versus speaking speed, and podcasts.

Voice Search Statistics

Smart speaker and voice assistant adoption, AI voice assistants, speech recognition accuracy, voice typing and the size of the voice recognition market.

39% of Americans aged 12 and older own a smart speaker in 2026, an estimated 112 million people, up from 7% in 2017.

139 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Podcast Statistics

How many people listen to podcasts, how many shows are still publishing, video podcasts, ad revenue, creator income and transcripts.

58% of Americans 12 and older, about 167 million people, listened to or watched a podcast in the last month in 2026, a record.

113 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Typing Speed Statistics

Average WPM on keyboards and phones, good typing speeds for work, speaking rates, voice vs keyboard input, error rates and typing strain.

Volunteers who took an online typing test averaged 51.56 words per minute on a physical keyboard, across 168,960 people and 136.9 million keystrokes.

149 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Work and communication

Email load, meetings and texting: how much of the day goes to writing messages.

Email Statistics

Email users, emails sent per day, spam share, emails per worker, time spent on email, reply times, after-hours overload and AI drafting.

85% of emails are read in under 15 seconds, and the typical person reads about 4 emails for every 1 they send, in Microsoft 365 data.

143 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Meeting Statistics

Hours spent in meetings, how many are unproductive, what they cost, after-hours calls, follow-up gaps and AI note-taking adoption.

Knowledge workers say meetings are ineffective 72% of the time.

155 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Texting Statistics

Texts sent per day, who texts most, texting vs calling, voice notes, phone typing errors, texting while driving and text scams.

68% of US adults say messaging has replaced at least some of the phone calls they used to make, and 37% say it has replaced most of them.

147 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Learning and neurodiversity

How common ADHD and dyslexia are, and what the data shows about school, work and writing.

ADHD Statistics

How many children and adults have ADHD, how diagnosis rates have changed, the medication shortage, and what ADHD costs at school and at work.

15.5 million US adults, 6.0% or about 1 in 16, had a current ADHD diagnosis in 2023.

167 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Dyslexia Statistics

How common dyslexia is in the US, UK and worldwide, reading and writing scores, special education, adult outcomes and the evidence on assistive technology.

About 7 in 100 primary school children have developmental dyslexia: 7.10%, pooled across 58 studies worldwide.

167 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Healthcare

Clinician burnout, documentation time and AI in medicine.

AI In Healthcare Statistics

Physician and hospital AI use, ambient AI scribes, FDA AI-enabled devices, accuracy and safety, patient trust and healthcare AI funding.

72% of US physicians used at least one AI use case in their practice in 2026, up from 48% in 2024 and 38% in 2023.

133 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

Physician Burnout Statistics

Burnout rates for US physicians and nurses, the EHR and after-hours documentation load behind them, what burnout costs, and what peer-reviewed trials say about AI scribes.

41.9% of US physicians reported at least one symptom of burnout in 2025, down from 43.2% in 2024 and 48.2% in 2023.

163 citations · 6 charts · Updated October 2026

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    Refreshed monthly

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