Gesture shortcuts for invocation of voice input

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• presenting, on a display, an instance of data input field configured to at least detect one or more input events;
• detecting, with a processor, a preconfigured gesture corresponding to the data input field, wherein the detecting is performed system-wide;
• generating an input event based on the preconfigured gesture corresponding to the data input field, the input event configured to invoke a voice-to-text session for the data input field,
• wherein the preconfigured gesture includes a physical interaction between a user and a computing device, wherein the interaction begins within a gesture initiating region and ends within a gesture terminating region, and wherein the voice-to-text session is invoked upon at least a recognition of the interaction, and
• wherein the gesture initiating region does not comprise an on-screen affordance related to the voice-to-text session, the on-screen affordance being a voice-to-text session control interface.

A computerized system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• detect a preconfigured gesture corresponding to a data input field and operable to invoke a voice-to-text session, wherein the preconfigured gesture includes a gesture initiating region and a gesture terminating region, wherein the gesture initiating region does not comprise an on-screen affordance related to the voice-to-text session and the gesture terminating region is located between a first end and second end of the data input field;
• invoke the voice-to-text session upon at least detecting the preconfigured gesture, wherein the voice-to-text session is aborted upon one of a timeout event, an interaction with a transient on-screen affordance, a keyboard keystroke, a removal of focus away from the data input field, a voice command, or a termination of the preconfigured gesture.