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Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

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Post by amadeus »

jenius wrote: post #36

Can anyone explain how this works? Seems like total black magic to me... the dude is typing random gibberish and it still figures out the word? Then he's just tapping randomly on the screen, gibberish comes out, then turns into the word he wanted? Don't mean this to sound unintelligent, the video was just crazy. What kind of key proximity algorithms are behind this?

I'm gonna guess that it does a couple things, but the main one is the shape you create with each touch, since you can type without typing on the keyboard itself.

Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

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Post by GFischer »

mtrimpe wrote: post #49
agscala wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> for my mobile phone the typing speed will just never be great regardless of the input method. Actually, way back when PalmOS and PocketPC were all the rage, there was a company that released something called the Fitaly keyboard. I don't know what you qualify as "great" typing speed, but with this keyboard they advertise 50wpm with a stylus, I was able to achieve 60wpm after some practice. The point is, it is defini…

I agree that a stylus changes everything; I should have been more specific. I never got up to 60wpm with Fitaly but I do remember not really feeling hampered by my typing speed. In general you don't get a stylus with your phone anymore these days though...

The Samsung Galaxy Note is well-liked by the subset that does prefer a stylus.

Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

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Post by chasingtheflow »

fleksy wrote: post #58
andrewmunsell wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing he mentioned was startup time, though, not the actual input lag.

Was responding to the second issue: "The second issue is the inefficiency of entering custom words". On that front Fleksy is the same or faster than the standard iOS keyboard.

I think he's suggesting that for "custom words" flesky autocorrects to the wrong words, whereas the standard keyboard doesn't - thus leading to longer input times under flesky ... at least until it learns those words.

Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

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Post by jareds »

fleksy wrote: post #24
jareds wrote: post #18

I’ve been using Fleksy for about five days now. As a totally blind iPhone user this app has some promise and some major flaws. The first issue is the fact that the app takes at least 30 seconds to load on my iPhone 4 if you haven’t used it in a while. I’ll deal with the crappy typing experience using the iPhone onscreen keyboard instead of waiting 30 seconds if I’m just sending a quick text. The second issue is the i…

Actually, touch typing on Fleksy is faster than on the standard keyboard. We reduced the lag time required to input letters from .5 seconds to .35. Plus, you only need to input those terms once.

I used incorrect terminology. With the on screen keyboard I am able to drag a finger around until I hear the letter I want announced, then with another finger tap the top half of the screen to enter that letter. It is much more efficient then touch typing with either Fleksy or touch typing with the standard keyboard.

Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

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Post by ricardobeat »

jenius wrote: post #36

Can anyone explain how this works? Seems like total black magic to me... the dude is typing random gibberish and it still figures out the word? Then he's just tapping randomly on the screen, gibberish comes out, then turns into the word he wanted? Don't mean this to sound unintelligent, the video was just crazy. What kind of key proximity algorithms are behind this?

This works in a similar way to BlindType (acquired by Google) from a couple years back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b8NlMd79w

edit: it's actually the same! http://phandroid.com/2012/08/16/makers-of-blindtype-bring-us...

Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

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Post by oulipo »

ricardobeat wrote: post #77
jenius wrote: post #36

Can anyone explain how this works? Seems like total black magic to me... the dude is typing random gibberish and it still figures out the word? Then he's just tapping randomly on the screen, gibberish comes out, then turns into the word he wanted? Don't mean this to sound unintelligent, the video was just crazy. What kind of key proximity algorithms are behind this?

This works in a similar way to BlindType (acquired by Google) from a couple years back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b8NlMd79w edit: it's actually the same! http://phandroid.com/2012/08/16/makers-of-blindtype-bring-us...

I prefer to type with the 8pen.com

Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

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Post by ricardobeat »

chasingtheflow wrote: post #74
fleksy wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was responding to the second issue: "The second issue is the inefficiency of entering custom words". On that front Fleksy is the same or faster than the standard iOS keyboard.

I think he's suggesting that for "custom words" flesky autocorrects to the wrong words, whereas the standard keyboard doesn't - thus leading to longer input times under flesky ... at least until it learns those words.

The standard keyboard also autocorrects non-standard words.

Re: Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

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Post by jerf »

Hmmm, this is probably the best argument for QWERTY I've seen. It's probably based on relative key taps identifying the keys, so having a keyboard layout that scatters everything makes it easier than a keyboard layout where aoeui are all right next to each other, which are very frequently interchangable between two legal words. Quite a few of the Dvorak consonant clusters are also often interchangable in the same way (crl being the one I have the most, err, "fun" with).
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