It seems like using speech-to-text is a faster alternative. You can also consider outsourcing the work. I know abbyy.com offers a service for this. Even though

It seems like using speech-to-text is a faster alternative. You can also consider outsourcing the work. I know abbyy.com offers a service for this. Even though you may not be their target market, they have services for implementing hybrid machine learning and data entry solutions. If you're into dreaming up cool solutions, you could try using smart pens or tablets to write stuff and then teach a model to recognize your handwriting. But for now, it's just a dream.