SwiftKey exits beta – Full version has launched
Posted by: Phat^Trance in Android, Android Apps, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Video
SwiftKey, a new keyboard app for Google Android smartphones that uses breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) technology, launched on Thursday after receiving more than 250,000 downloads during its public beta. The app’s AI learns a users writing style to complete words and sentences for them, offering an unrivalled touchscreen typing experience.
About a third of words can be accurately predicted by SwiftKey before a user taps a key and the majority of remaining words only require one or two key-presses to type, speeding up SMS or email composition by up to 50%.
SwiftKey brings the future of text entry to smartphones. It uses TouchType’s breakthrough Fluency™ technology to predict the next word you want to type, before you even press a key.
Fast
With SwiftKey, your next word is predicted with such incredible accuracy that a third of suggestions are right first time and usually you won’t need to press more than two letters.
Accurate
SwiftKey uses advanced error correction, meaning grammar and spelling errors are a thing of the past. Typing with SwiftKey produces text you can rely on, in a fraction of the time it takes on a regular QWERTY keyboard.
Intelligent
SwiftKey doesn’t just predict regular words – it learns as you type and remembers how you write. As words and sentences are chosen over time, its Fluency engine creates a dynamic understanding of your writing style to boost the accuracy, fluency and speed of prediction.
Languages supported
SwiftKey currently supports the following nine languages:
* US English
* UK English
* Spanish
* French
* German
* Italian
* Dutch
* Portuguese
* Swedish
Gesture support
SwiftKey offers support for the following gestures:
* Swipe down minimises the keyboard
* Swipe left deletes the previous word
* Swipe up shifts to upper case
Input options
AutoComplete: Space selects middle prediction for words being typed.
AutoAccept: Space selects middle prediction at all times.
AutoCaps: First word of every sentence automatically capitalised.
Keyboard layouts supported: QWERTY, AZERTY, QZERTY, QWERTZ
Optional sound or vibration (haptic feedback) on key press, with options for volume and duration.
Usage information
Dynamic usage statistics available to inform user about keystrokes saved.
Prediction comparison
Using the KSPC (keystrokes per character) metric, SwiftKey is around twice as accurate as current leading text entry solutions.
Term management
Long-pressing on a prediction allows the removal of a term from a user’s dynamic language module.
