Swype keyboard for Android analyzes your texts and suggests emoji
An update to version x.0.1 of an app, you might believe, is unlikely to bring much in the way of major changes. But far from being just a bug fixing release, Android keyboard app Swype 3.0.1 takes predictive text to the next level.
We've all become used to the idea of smartphone keyboards predicting not only which word you are currently typing, but also which word you might want to type next. Taking on board millennials and pre-millennials' apparent dislike of actual words and heavy reliance on emoji, Swype will now suggest emoji you might like to use based on what you are typing.
The addition is just the latest in a series of moves to drastically reduce the amount of actual typing that is needed to send messages. Just how reliable emoji prediction proves to be remains to be seen, but it's certainly a feature that has the potential to be a real crowd-pleaser.
The full changelog for Swype 3.0.1 is as follows:
- Emoji predictions based on your text content
- Number Row option
- Hide Secondaries option
- Text Engine Improvements
- Handwriting Improvements
- Chinese Handwriting Multiple Character Recognition
- Languages and Keyboards:
- Uyghur keyboard
- Kashmiri Devanagari predictive language database
- Russian KDB for Russian and Kirghyz languages
- Improvements to Thai, Lao, Khmer
Swype is available in Google Play for $0.99, but there is a free trial version available.
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