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Did you try Kii, Swiftkey or TouchPal X? They all allow to mix multiple languages and are pretty awesome virtual keyboards. Using them with two or more languag
by apunic 13y ago
Did you try Kii, Swiftkey or TouchPal X?
They all allow to mix multiple languages and are pretty awesome virtual keyboards. Using them with two or more languages at the same time is a very smooth experience. Couldn't imagine to go back to a single language keyboard.
A quick overview:
- Swiftkey has probably the best prediction capabilities and with its cloud sync it has many advanced features.
- Touchpad is very close to swiftkey
- Kii is the keyboard with the most configuration possibilities. You can change really everything with this keyboard, from the size of the buttons
over padding, click sounds, prediction behaviors to gestures and many, many more. It's definitely the most powerful and fastest keyboard. On par with swiftkey except the cloud sync feature. Once you you set it up to your needs your type as fast as with a blackberry either with one hand (by swiping) or with two hands (by tapping). But again swiftkey and touchpad are very powerful too and at the end it's a matter of taste.
Swype is still quite popular but doesn't have good multi language support and the experience is not that smooth compared to the other ones.
- Uberphallus 13y agoI don't know about Kii (seemed pretty bad long time ago) nor TouchPal X, but although I love SwiftKey, I hate its model. I'm almost positive they use an n-gram Markov model, which is pretty cool. But, and the big but (might be wrong but it's my feeling) is that they share the model across languages. I suspect so because I normally keep English/Spanish on and switch between Portuguese and French, and even when I'm writing Spanish in E/S/F mode I get Portuguese suggestions (because of identical and very similar words to Spanish). No, you should be way, way stricter to tell languages apart and use different models for each one, probably using another model to adjust the probability of each language. Example annoyance: After I type 3 words in Spanish that happen to be 2 words in Portuguese and 1 in English, I certainly don't want the English suggestion, even if I use that word more frequently in English.
- xerophtye 13y agoI haven't tried it, but do answer this. does it support only pre-defined languages? What if my language isn't based on the roman alphabet, but i use them phonetically. Does it support that?