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SwiftKey Touchscreen Typing app Uses AI to Write for you
LONDON, September 23, 2010/PRNewswire/ -- SwiftKey(TM), a new keyboard app for Google Android smartphones that uses
breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) technology, launched Thursday after
receiving more than 250,000 downloads during its public beta. The app's AI
learns a user's writing style to complete words and sentences for them,
offering an unrivalled touchscreen typing experience.
SwiftKey accurately predicts about a third of words before a user chooses
a single letter 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%.
London-based developers TouchType Ltd launched the app following the
popular beta, which saw SwiftKey become the most downloaded keyboard on the
Android Market, amid hundreds of positive reviews. Tech blog Gizmodo wrote,
"The star feature of SwiftKey is its predictive text -- it literally learns
the way you type." Engadget said the app has "an uncanny ability" to guess
your next word. "It's like a psychic, only for less money," wrote Mobile
Crunch.
The key is TouchType's Fluency(TM) prediction engine, which uses new
techniques to analyze billions of sentences of background text to understand
how words combine. The technology can also learn from users' message archives
and their typing over time to provide eerily accurate personalization.
"We were overwhelmed by the success of SwiftKey's beta launch and the
positive response from our users," TouchType's CEO Jon Reynolds said.
"SwiftKey is already one of the most popular keyboards on Android. We
hope to continue that trend now with our enhanced full version."
The new app supports voice dictation and multi-touch, has a new keyboard
layout including a numpad and arrow keys, and can make simultaneous
predictions in two languages. To celebrate the launch, TouchType is giving
SwiftKey away for just $0.99 for the next week on the Android Market, a
three-dollar discount. A free trial version will become available next week.
Dr Ben Medlock, TouchType's CTO, said, "SwiftKey isn't just the first
keyboard to harness Fluency's incredible prediction power; it's now the first
keyboard to offer multiple-language prediction -- an amazing breakthrough for
bilingual smartphone users."
Medlock said these innovations are just the beginning. "We're developing
new techniques based on machine learning that will blow away today's keyboard
technology. Watch this space."
SwiftKey predicts in US/UK English, Spanish, German, French, Italian,
Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish, with many new languages coming shortly. See
more at http://www.swiftkey.net.
Source: TouchType Ltd
Joe Braidwood, CMO, on +44(0)7949-081-796 or press@touchtype-online.com
SwiftKey Touchscreen Typing app Uses AI to Write for you
LONDON, September 23, 2010/PRNewswire/ -- SwiftKey(TM), a new keyboard app for Google Android smartphones that uses
breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) technology, launched Thursday after
receiving more than 250,000 downloads during its public beta. The app's AI
learns a user's writing style to complete words and sentences for them,
offering an unrivalled touchscreen typing experience.
SwiftKey accurately predicts about a third of words before a user chooses
a single letter 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%.
London-based developers TouchType Ltd launched the app following the
popular beta, which saw SwiftKey become the most downloaded keyboard on the
Android Market, amid hundreds of positive reviews. Tech blog Gizmodo wrote,
"The star feature of SwiftKey is its predictive text -- it literally learns
the way you type." Engadget said the app has "an uncanny ability" to guess
your next word. "It's like a psychic, only for less money," wrote Mobile
Crunch.
The key is TouchType's Fluency(TM) prediction engine, which uses new
techniques to analyze billions of sentences of background text to understand
how words combine. The technology can also learn from users' message archives
and their typing over time to provide eerily accurate personalization.
"We were overwhelmed by the success of SwiftKey's beta launch and the
positive response from our users," TouchType's CEO Jon Reynolds said.
"SwiftKey is already one of the most popular keyboards on Android. We
hope to continue that trend now with our enhanced full version."
The new app supports voice dictation and multi-touch, has a new keyboard
layout including a numpad and arrow keys, and can make simultaneous
predictions in two languages. To celebrate the launch, TouchType is giving
SwiftKey away for just $0.99 for the next week on the Android Market, a
three-dollar discount. A free trial version will become available next week.
Dr Ben Medlock, TouchType's CTO, said, "SwiftKey isn't just the first
keyboard to harness Fluency's incredible prediction power; it's now the first
keyboard to offer multiple-language prediction -- an amazing breakthrough for
bilingual smartphone users."
Medlock said these innovations are just the beginning. "We're developing
new techniques based on machine learning that will blow away today's keyboard
technology. Watch this space."
SwiftKey predicts in US/UK English, Spanish, German, French, Italian,
Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish, with many new languages coming shortly. See
more at http://www.swiftkey.net.
Source: TouchType Ltd
Joe Braidwood, CMO, on +44(0)7949-081-796 or press@touchtype-online.com