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After trying most Android keyboard, I think the best and easiest way to write is using progressively-learning-predictive-technique like in SwiftKey.
This appears to be a variant of a technique known in the research literature as Quikwriting [1] (a type of FlowMenu [2]), which you can still try online [3]. There hasn't been much in the way of evaluation of Quickwriting, but one study found people's initial performance was around 4WPM, increasing to 16WPM after five hours of practice [4]. I haven't used 8pen's implementation (so I don't know how their version diffe…
I remember using this when Swype was just new. It is very unwieldy and I tried it for a week or two of heavy frustration. The Gesture swiping built into 4.2 is hard to beat. Between the fast two handed operation with good correction and the freaky fast voice transcription, it's hard to want to deviate from the stock keyboard. Honestly, the demo video makes it look painfully slow, even when he's doing a full demo sent…
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Did we watch the same video, or am I missing how this is terribly similar to Graffiti?
Lol.. Not sure who downvoted, but the act of writing letters on the bottom of the screen to type it in for you = Grafitti. It may be possible that the trees (not handwriting) are being missed for the forest (writing at the bottom of a touch screen) is nothing new.
I remember using this when Swype was just new. It is very unwieldy and I tried it for a week or two of heavy frustration. The Gesture swiping built into 4.2 is hard to beat. Between the fast two handed operation with good correction and the freaky fast voice transcription, it's hard to want to deviate from the stock keyboard. Honestly, the demo video makes it look painfully slow, even when he's doing a full demo sent…
I thought Swype and Gesture swiping were more or less the same. What's the difference?
Lol, this is hilarious. This is basically Palm OS Graffiti, brought back from the dead and celebrated like innovation. Heck, even the Apple Newton had it before the Palm OS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_%28Palm_OS%29
I remember using this when Swype was just new. It is very unwieldy and I tried it for a week or two of heavy frustration. The Gesture swiping built into 4.2 is hard to beat. Between the fast two handed operation with good correction and the freaky fast voice transcription, it's hard to want to deviate from the stock keyboard. Honestly, the demo video makes it look painfully slow, even when he's doing a full demo sent…
I remember using this when Swype was just new. It is very unwieldy and I tried it for a week or two of heavy frustration. The Gesture swiping built into 4.2 is hard to beat. Between the fast two handed operation with good correction and the freaky fast voice transcription, it's hard to want to deviate from the stock keyboard. Honestly, the demo video makes it look painfully slow, even when he's doing a full demo sent…
If you regularly write in multiple languages, Swiftkey3 is the way to go.
The explainer video is painful, and does most of the things I find painful in videos like that. Slow paced, oddly accented English, very wordy in places, and essentially monotone. No clear promise about what it's going to show you early on -- the first 15 seconds or so made me disinterested. It got better, but normally I'd just skip to something else by then.