Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method
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#2Err, SwiftKey anyone? It's been around since 2008 and even has an xkcd comic featuring it: http://xkcd.com/1068/
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#3I've realized that for my mobile phone the typing speed will just never be great regardless of the input method. Tools like this (and SwiftKey) improve that a bit but not to a life-changing degree.
For the desktop this might be quite amazing however since, unless you're a perfect touch typist, you will always make a small number of mistakes.
These small mistakes can be caught fairly easily (especially given the much larger training set you'll gather on a desktop) and since you're looking at the screen anyhow it's fairly easy to detect damn-you-autocorrect mistakes before they slip through.
TL;DR; Don't use this to make inherently slow data entry a bit faster; use it to make fast data entry even faster.
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#4Ok, maybe I am extremely daft but how do you turn off the voice reading out each word you type? I turned my device on vibrate/silent mode - no dice, then I tried turning the system volume down to nothing - no dice. What am I missing here?
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#5Err, SwiftKey anyone? It's been around since 2008 and even has an xkcd comic featuring it: http://xkcd.com/1068/
I love SwiftKey but don't think anything equivalent was previously available for iPhone. My wife missed Swype terribly when she switched to iOS.
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#6Windows phone pretty much does exactly this already. It's horrid.
I genuinely think that a better solution is to buy a phone with T9 if you have input problems or like to enter stuff when not looking at it. You simply NEED a tactile interface to do that effectively.
I carry a Nokia 3330 and Lumia 710 around. The 3330 is still a thousand times easier to enter text messages into. I can use it with my eyes shut and make absolutely no mistakes. The 710 however, is painful to enter text into.
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#7What's the business model on this?
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#8What's the business model on this?
selling?
Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method
#9What's the business model on this?
Being acquired by Apple, Google or Microsoft.
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#10Fleksy team guy here.
Thanks for the feedback guys, feel free to send anything else you might have for us at feedback@fleksy.com We want to make Fleksy as good as it can possibly be.
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