Apple invents enhanced autocorrect tool and automated language input selection

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  • Reply 21 of 36
    Data logging could be a problem, apps are not disassembled and the full APIs are probably not checked, there have been some apps which have remotely activated some action or after a certain time/date. This would not need to be a full app so it could be easier to sandbox.

    Has anyone tried 'Fleksy' it is a mix of auto-correction and swiping it does an amazing job. even without looking at (or being able to see) the keyboard.
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  • Reply 22 of 36

    The enhanced autocorrection should come in handy for multi-lingual people.

     

    A while back, I loaded the Dutch keyboard on my iPhone, just to show my Dutch speaking relatives and to help with entering Dutch text in Google Translate. Usually, during texting, the switch between the emoji keyboard and the regular English keyboard is straightforward, but for some reason, I once ended up on the Dutch keyboard without realizing it. I thought my autocorrect was completely broke! It was coming up with the weirdest words for some very common (and properly spelled) English words. I was stuck in a state of "what the hell?" for a while before I figured it out.

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  • Reply 23 of 36
    droidftwdroidftw Posts: 1,009member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post

     

    What I said: I feel bad for future anthropologists who will need to decipher Siri's voice-to-text translations of our communications.

    What Siri heard: I real bad four furniture arctic apologies who will need to December Siri voice or text transmission of hour communion.


     

    What I said: I feel bad for future anthropologists who will need to decipher Siri's voice-to-text translations of our communications.

    What my Android phone heard: I feel bad for future anthropologist who will need to decipher Siri's voice to text translations of our communications

     

    Not perfect, but dang close.

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  • Reply 24 of 36
    gwmacgwmac Posts: 1,830member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DroidFTW View Post

     

     

    What I said: I feel bad for future anthropologists who will need to decipher Siri's voice-to-text translations of our communications.

    What my Android phone heard: I feel bad for future anthropologist who will need to decipher Siri's voice to text translations of our communications

     

    Not perfect, but dang close.


    What I said: I feel bad for future anthropologists who will need to decipher Siri's voice-to-text translations of our communications.

    What my iPhone 5S got:  I feel bad for future anthropologists who will need to decipher series voice to text translations of our communications.

     

    Besides  confusing her name with "series" that was spot on accurate even though that was a rather strangely worded sentence.  I really don't have issues with voice to text except for not always being alone, or in a quiet place, or not having LTE or Wifi. It just takes good enunciation and practice. 

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  • Reply 25 of 36
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    Originally Posted by smiffy31 View Post



    Data logging could be a problem, apps are not disassembled and the full APIs are probably not checked, there have been some apps which have remotely activated some action or after a certain time/date. This would not need to be a full app so it could be easier to sandbox.



    Has anyone tried 'Fleksy' it is a mix of auto-correction and swiping it does an amazing job. even without looking at (or being able to see) the keyboard.

    Couldn't one mitigate that threat by preventing keyboards from transmitting or receiving anything over the network?

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  • Reply 26 of 36
    tundraboytundraboy Posts: 1,934member

    An invention to correct auto-correct.  I think I know what Steve would have said if you pitched that idea to him.

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  • Reply 27 of 36
    crowleycrowley Posts: 10,453member
    This seems more like a band aid than a positive development.
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  • Reply 28 of 36
    gtrgtr Posts: 3,231member
    It would be nice to see some improvements to autocorrect.

    The current version sometimes doesn't work very we'll.

    ;)
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  • Reply 29 of 36
    ingelaingela Posts: 217member
    what i would love to see is, for those of us who communicate in multiple languages often, to allow "misspelled" words to have a second language option that could show auto-correct options in the second language of choice. I find when communicating with second langue users, inserting words familiar with both, auto-correction can be torture.
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  • Reply 30 of 36
    gtr wrote: »
    It would be nice to see some improvements to autocorrect.

    The current version sometimes doesn't work very we'll.

    ;)

    Contractions using autocorrect give me fits. Really like to see that fixed. It seems much more pronounced since iOS7.
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  • Reply 31 of 36
    What if you want to use more than language? In the same text/email? I often have to quote a foreign language when writing in English, and if I cannot change the language manually, it will seriously affect me.
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  • Reply 32 of 36

    I think Samsung has an implementation wherein they suggest previously used sentences when typing.

     

    It made me think about Samsung putting out a 65-bit phone - "screw word suggestions, we will give sentence suggestions"!

     

    Having said that, the person who told me about it was a doctor and said she loved the feature as it allowed her to SMS generic prescriptions without having to retype all the medicine names again.

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  • Reply 33 of 36
    Not being able to send any data is what i meant by sand-boxing, These new keyboards are heavily dictionary dependent they may require downloading data, or be obliged to use the in-build dictionaries.
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  • Reply 34 of 36
    gtr wrote: »
    It would be nice to see some improvements to autocorrect.

    The current version sometimes doesn't work very we'll.

    ;)

    Their's truth in their. Well see how it we'll evolve.
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  • Reply 35 of 36
    Having said that, the person who told me about it was a doctor and said she loved the feature as it allowed her to SMS generic prescriptions without having to retype all the medicine names again.

    She could add those difficult medicine names to the keyboard shortcuts.
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  • Reply 36 of 36
    tundraboy wrote: »
    An invention to correct auto-correct.  I think I know what Steve would have said if you pitched that idea to him.

    "Why are you still here? You just fired yourself!" —Steve Jobs

    :D
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