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Coupled with a custom dictionary exactly. I'm sure you could even make T5 though it probably works less well with only 5 keys. For those who don't remember: T
by jopsen 6y ago
Coupled with a custom dictionary exactly.
I'm sure you could even make T5 though it probably works less well with only 5 keys.
For those who don't remember: T9 would have one key for "abc", own for "def" and so on. You didn't have to tap the first two key twice to type "be".
You would simple tap the first and the second key, then it would look for words matching "(a|b|c)(d|e|f)" and conclude the most common such word is "be".
I think you could further argument it with grammar awareness, so really you tapped the length of the word. For ambiguous words you would have a key to switch between words.
Everything was deterministic, so you'd quickly be able to type without looking.
- jhanschoo 6y agoYou can waive the prediction too if you allowed people to swipe on those keys too akin to a modern Japanese mobile input method. For latin script you can combine them: 1 for a or b or c, swipe left for a, swipe up for b, swipe right for c, etc.
- jopsen 6y agoThat's kind of cool... But the upside to prediction is that you don't even need to know how to spell perfectly. Maybe letters that sound similar could be on the same key... If you were to reinvent the system.