It sounds like you're so used to entering text in an old-fashioned typing way that you're giving the newer, faster methods of text input a chance.
The Android speech-to-text functionality is good and it's a lot faster than typing or swyping. Just tap the microphone key and talk, including saying punctuation, like "exclamation point" and "smiley face". Unless you're in church or a deafening location or something, I'm not sure why you're typing. It's 2014.
For me (and many others) Swyping is a lot faster than typing. (I don't see how lifting your finger from and setting your finger back down on each letter could possibly be faster than just leaving you finger on the keyboard as you move from letter to letter.) Swype's word-suggestion window only pops up if you've swiped something wrong, and if you just keep swiping the next word, it'll input its best guess and let you move on with no word-choice box blocking your vision. Not sure how that's much different from using a basic keyboard that just lets you type wrong words -- except for an occasional dialog box that tries to help you. If there are words that you want to add to Swype's dictionary, you can just type (not swipe) them.
If you really want to go old-school, most phone manufacturers offer the choice of a stock Android old-style typing keyboard under the "Settings" -> "Language & keyboard settings". However, it seems that nowadays almost all keyboards have word-suggestion. If you go to the Play Store and search for "basic keyboard" there are dozens, including this one that has no word suggestion.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fiberthemax.OpQ2keyboard
