Abstract: Embodiments relate to using pressure features of touch inputs directed to a virtual keyboard to control the symbols outputted by the virtual keyboard. Specifically, when interacting with a virtual keyboard, pressures of physical touches directed to the displayed virtual keyboard are sensed and included with corresponding touch inputs provided to the virtual keyboard. In the process of determining what symbols are outputted by the virtual keyboard, the virtual keyboard considers the pressure features of the touch inputs. A pressure feature of a touch input directed to the virtual keyboard can control which symbol is outputted by activation of a virtual key by the touch input. The pressure can also, or alternatively, trigger outputting of symbols not corresponding to key activations, transforming words or symbols (e.g., capitalizing, selecting diacritics, applying visual effects).

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for adapting timeout values based on varying input scopes associated with text boxes. An indication that dictation has been initiated in association with a text box is received. An input scope associated with the text box is identified, for instance, by identifying a tag associated with the text box that defines an input scope associated therewith. A timeout value associated with the identified input scope is identified and applied to the dictation such that the microphone automatically deactivates (i.e., without affirmative user interaction) following an amount of time associated with the timeout value in which no speech is detected. Longer timeout values may be associated with user activities that result in lengthy, thought-out segments of text (e.g., word processing document composition) than are associated with user activities that result in short and/or command-oriented segments of text (e.g., search query composition).