Systems and methods for improved user interface

A computer-implemented method for facilitating user input for a computing device, the method comprising:

• presenting on a touch-sensitive display of a computing device a graphical user interface for voice input, comprising:
• a voice input button that, when selected by a user, causes audio input for transcription to be received via a microphone of the computing device, which transcription is displayed in a display portion that displays text of the transcription, wherein at least a portion of the audio input is submitted to a trained neural network that uses a set of spectrogram frames that represent the at least a portion of the audio input to output a set of transcribed characters corresponding to character probabilities predicted by the trained neural network;
• a trackpad portion that is configured to receive via the touch-sensitive display one or more gestures from the user;
• and
• a navigation portion that displays a plurality of buttons, each button, when selected by the user via the touch-sensitive display, activates a function associated with that button, at least one of the buttons, when activated causes an alphabet keyboard to be displayed to the user that facilitates input of text by the user.

A computing device comprising:

• a touch-sensitive user interface configured to display at least a graphical user interface and to receive one or more inputs from a user;
• a microphone;
• a processing system, the processing system being configured to be in operative communication with the touch-sensitive user interface and with the microphone, the processing system being configured to perform the steps comprising:
• causing a graphical user interface for user input to be presented on the touch-sensitive user interface of the computing device, the graphical user interface comprising:
• a voice input button that, when selected by a user, causes at least a portion of audio input, which audio input is received via a microphone of the computing device, for transcription, which transcription is displayed in a display portion that displays text of the transcription, to be submitted to a trained neural network that uses a set of spectrogram frames that represent the at least a portion of the audio input to output a set of transcribed characters corresponding to character probabilities predicted by the trained neural network;
• a trackpad portion that is configured to receive via the touch-sensitive user interface one or more gestures from the user;
• and
• a navigation portion that displays a plurality of buttons, each button, when selected by the user via the touch-sensitive user interface, activates a function associated with that button, at least one of the buttons, when activated causes an alphabet keyboard to be displayed to the user that facilitates input of text by the user.