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T9 works good for English and simple texts. If you need some other language, declensions, conjugations and non-Latin script things are no longer good.
by justsomehnguy 1y ago
T9 works good for English and simple texts. If you need some other language, declensions, conjugations and non-Latin script things are no longer good.
- spookie 1y agoEh you would abbreviate things to hell to get around it. Helped with sms prices on those days too!
- justsomehnguy 1y agoWhich makes T9 fail miserably because it works with a non-abbreviated words. Later there were adaptive versions which had an auto-populated user dictionary but that made "a blind T9ing" prone to errors.
- Dilettante_ 1y agoI want to say you could add custom words no problem? But it's been a hot minute, so I might be misremembering.
- justsomehnguy 1y agoMeh, Imma team Moto and I don't remember it well anymore, 20 years give or take. Yes, the later variants both had a custom/user dictionary and could learn %he new words from the input. The latter could add the uncertainty in the input.
- gmueckl 1y agoEricsson had a really good implementation for German. I would write entire text messages without looking.