Your explanation
He typed it yes...in a way. How his synthesizer works is a set of letters is displayed on his screen and a highlight will scroll automatically. When the desired letter is highlighted, he hits a button on his glasses with his cheek. Before he used the hand button, but that became to difficult. The more words he spells, the better idea the computer has of what Steven is trying to say. When there are enough words, the computer tries to guess the sentence and so on. In simpler sense, imagine he has a huge text message program that has a near perfect auto correction program.
And second, for those with hate towards Hawking: go fuck yourselves with the biggest stick. Seriously, go die. Hawking is a super resourceful person. In ethics, this guy has reached something nobody else in the world has done. He was suffering from ALS or Lou Guericks since he was 23. After the doctors gave him 2 years, this guy marries and has kids, get his Ph D in physics and started the biggest debate in astrophysics. When people are asking for euthanasia for their condition; Hawking changed the fucking world. He is still the chair of the physics department at Cambridge University and he is passed 70 years old. Nobody pays for his nurses, he makes the money to sustain his life and his research.
Fuck some of you guys who complain about your lives being hard.