1. A multimodal input system for use with an application program executed on a computing device, the system comprising: a dictation module configured to receive a recognized speech text input for insertion into a document that has keyboard focus, the recognized speech text input including text recognized from speech audio input by a speech recognition module; and a scratchpad graphical user interface configured to display the recognized speech text input, to receive keyboard input to effect edits in the recognized speech text input without changing a keyboard focus from the document in the application program, and to generate an edited speech input for insertion into the document.