I don't know if you have children, but when they get older - one thing is for sure. They WILL make fun of you.
While walking down the hall, out of one of the bedrooms I heard my 20 year old Daniel regale his twin Samantha about how embarrassing and lame his mother was. Poor Daniel, he had to experience walking with me when I was talking out loud to my iPhone.
He might have been mortified that little bugger, but I was delighted. It was proof of my ABL philosophy. Always Be Learning.
The day before I had skimmed through a new book I bought on i06 (the new operating system) for iPhones. I had opened it up at a random spot and voila! It showed that instead of writing, you can use the built in speech recognition and speak for up to 30 seconds. Your words will be transcribed into a note, email, message - etc. It works so well it's amazing. You can use it for almost every application on the iPhone and of course, Android has it too. Another reason you really must get a smartphone.
I don't have an Android - but for the iPhone, simply turn on Siri. I had mine turned off when it first came out - Siri that is - my husband said it would use up bandwidth as it requires internet access when not in a wireless location. However with the new plans we all must have a gig or two now, it doesn't matter that much.