SwiftKey X Beta Released, Takes Word Prediction and Error Correction to Another Level
The folks at SwiftKey have released a new beta version of the popular keyboard, named SwiftKey X, and it brings with it some very interesting and powerful features. For starters, they’ve refined the installation process to make it easier for new users to set up the keyboard. They’ll be taken through the process step-by-step, setting up their options and personalizing the keyboard as they wish.
As far as personalizing that keyboard goes, SwiftKey can scan your SMS messages, Twitter timeline, Facebook statuses and Gmail conversations to learn the users’ writing style. None of this is enabled without your permission, of course, so you security paranoids should ready easy.
SwiftKey lets you choose between two typing styles – careful and accurate or fast and sloppy. The former is just as it sounds. Users will go about their every day typing habits with limited assistance from SwiftKey. The latter, however, adds another layer of word prediction and correction. As a sloppy typer myself, I tried this out and it was pretty much dead-on accurate.
Under the hood, a new heat mapping feature will, over time, learn a users’ tendencies in spelling mistakes and typos and will use this to even further tailor the word prediction and correction system to your specific needs. We’re not exactly sure how it works, but it definitely sounds cool. They’ve fixed and added a whole slew of other things, too, but I’ll just forward you on over to the Android market so you can try it for yourself.
