In 1998-1999, a joint project between Marv Westrom and Adrianna Zylmans of the Department of Curriculum Studies and VTech Electronics Canada resulted in the development of the Keyboard Wizard 2.0, a device to teach typing to elementary school children. VTech Electronics is an international company that makes a variety of electronic products, including educational games and learning tools.
Many elementary schools have a computer laboratory equipped with a class-set of computers.
A very common activity in such a lab is to learn typing or keyboarding. The Keyboard Wizard was developed to provide an alternate and less-expensive means of accomplishing the same task. We can already give some computers simple verbal commands and no doubt this function will improve. However such improvements will not make typing obsolete. Recognizing a word or phrase as an instruction is trivial compared to understanding what is being said.