By: iPadfanzz Editor on April 26, 2013
Swype, the learning keyboard application, is now available for Android devices for $0.99 (or Rs 50). The new app, which supports four Indian languages-Tamil, Urdu, Hindi and Hinglish, can be downloaded from the Google Play store on smartphones and tablet devices.
Swype was acquired by Nuance Communications in October 2011 for approximately $100 million. The company now claims to have around 500 million users worldwide.
The app has been designed to aims to serve a large sector of consumers, offering solutions to enhance the typing speed and quality.
What makes Swype unique and interesting is the ability to drag a finger across the screen in order to compose messages. A user typing a message of Swype don’t have to waste precious seconds lifting a ginfer, instead they can move their fingers across the screen – like they are connecting the dots across a keyboard. Swype’s learning algorithm evaluates each movement and helps decipher what is trying to be spelled. The app evolves by taking cognizance of what the user is typing.
The app basically caters of three types of keyboard users: “the swype’r”, “the typer”, and “the tapper”. The “swype’rs” are those users who can quickly and easily move from one letter to the next fully utilizing the app’s capabilities to predict words and phrases as inputted. Then come the “Typer” – those who are good in quick typing on a keyboard like they’re sending a text message. Then “tappers” – the precise typists who need to look at the keyboard and hit the buttons exactly in order to compose something.
The new Android app comes with Dragon Dictation, a learning solution that accepts verbalized messages and transforms them into printed ones.
Other important feature that Swype comes with include:
Expanded living language dialect support: This is helpful to users where a particular language is spoken.
Smart touch: The app adjusts to how you type on your device. So if you consistently tap between G & H but usually want G, Swype will learn and adapt those patterns.
Smart Reselect: A user can select any word in Swype to edit it, much like spelling and grammar check in Microsoft Word. When a user reselects a word for editing, Swype's Smart Editor technology enables the device to look both at the word before and after to give better replacement options.
Due to its late entry in Google Play, the app faces strong competition from third-party keyboards like SwiftKey and SlideIT have been in the Google Play Store since quite some time and have been quite popular as well.
On the launch, Mike Thompson, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile, said: “Swype was a game changer when first unveiled, and ever since, it has continued to set the bar for intuitive and intelligent keyboard innovation – so much so that others have tried to follow. Based on the incredible success of our beta program and our vocal customers, we decided to extend the power of Swype to more Android users through Google Play. Android users deserve the best keyboard – settling for an alternative is no longer necessary.”
This is for the first time that the app has been made available to the public. Earlier, the app was only available through phone manufacturers and also through its beta usage.
Swype, the learning keyboard application, is now available for Android devices for $0.99 (or Rs 50). The new app, which supports four Indian languages-Tamil, Urdu, Hindi and Hinglish, can be downloaded from the Google Play store on smartphones and tablet devices.
Swype was acquired by Nuance Communications in October 2011 for approximately $100 million. The company now claims to have around 500 million users worldwide.
The app has been designed to aims to serve a large sector of consumers, offering solutions to enhance the typing speed and quality.
What makes Swype unique and interesting is the ability to drag a finger across the screen in order to compose messages. A user typing a message of Swype don’t have to waste precious seconds lifting a ginfer, instead they can move their fingers across the screen – like they are connecting the dots across a keyboard. Swype’s learning algorithm evaluates each movement and helps decipher what is trying to be spelled. The app evolves by taking cognizance of what the user is typing.
The app basically caters of three types of keyboard users: “the swype’r”, “the typer”, and “the tapper”. The “swype’rs” are those users who can quickly and easily move from one letter to the next fully utilizing the app’s capabilities to predict words and phrases as inputted. Then come the “Typer” – those who are good in quick typing on a keyboard like they’re sending a text message. Then “tappers” – the precise typists who need to look at the keyboard and hit the buttons exactly in order to compose something.
The new Android app comes with Dragon Dictation, a learning solution that accepts verbalized messages and transforms them into printed ones.
Other important feature that Swype comes with include:
Expanded living language dialect support: This is helpful to users where a particular language is spoken.
Smart touch: The app adjusts to how you type on your device. So if you consistently tap between G & H but usually want G, Swype will learn and adapt those patterns.
Smart Reselect: A user can select any word in Swype to edit it, much like spelling and grammar check in Microsoft Word. When a user reselects a word for editing, Swype's Smart Editor technology enables the device to look both at the word before and after to give better replacement options.
Due to its late entry in Google Play, the app faces strong competition from third-party keyboards like SwiftKey and SlideIT have been in the Google Play Store since quite some time and have been quite popular as well.
On the launch, Mike Thompson, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile, said: “Swype was a game changer when first unveiled, and ever since, it has continued to set the bar for intuitive and intelligent keyboard innovation – so much so that others have tried to follow. Based on the incredible success of our beta program and our vocal customers, we decided to extend the power of Swype to more Android users through Google Play. Android users deserve the best keyboard – settling for an alternative is no longer necessary.”
This is for the first time that the app has been made available to the public. Earlier, the app was only available through phone manufacturers and also through its beta usage.
