We’re no strangers to SwiftKey here at Engadget HQ, and today TouchType is launching a main new edition of everyone’s favorite Android virtual keyboard — SwiftKey Tablet X for devices running Honeycomb , and SwiftKey X for devices running Android 2.x. Both applications improve upon the unique simply by TouchType’s Fluency 2.0 artificial intelligence engine, a novel predictive phrase system which learns the way you write. New features include cloud learning, which analyzes the way you type in Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, and text messages to foretell phrases on your style, plus keypress technology which continually monitors your typing precision and adapts the touch-sensitive area for every key to enhance prediction accuracy. SwiftKey now supports 17 languages (with more coming soon) and is wise enough to interpret three languages instantaneously. There’s also a handful of different enhancements, including support for themes which enable users to customise the feel and look of the keyboard. And that split keyboard option we first encountered at CES ? It’s there in fact, within the tablet version.
We’ve been testing SwiftKey Tablet X at the Galaxy Tab 10.1 for a number of days now, alongside SwiftKey X on a handful of phones (including the Nexus S and the EVO 3D ), and it’s probably the precise virtual keyboard we’ve used on Android yet. After all, it’s now replacing the stock keyboard on all our HTC Sense -equipped handsets. Prediction accuracy improves quickly when you start using the keyboard, and we liked having the choice to show off the spacebar-triggered auto-completion of words and phrases. Another useful feature is the facility to display arrow / cursor keys at the phone version. The supplied themes are attractive (especially Neon), and the layouts are intuitive — although we’d have preferred the numbers to be arranged in a row rather than mimicking a numpad. Both applications are available in today just for $1.99 inside the Android Market. Regular pricing is $4.99 for SwiftKey Tablet X, and $3.99 for SwiftKey X. Have a look at our screenshot galleries below, and hit the break for our hands-on videos and more.
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SAN FRANCISCO – July 14, 2011 – TouchType Inc. today announced the provision of SwiftKey™ X for smartphones and SwiftKey™ Tablet X, two new intuitive Android keyboard apps. The launch builds at the company’s success with its original Android keyboard app SwiftKey™, which debuted twelve months ago and has since enjoyed greater than 1.5 million downloads.
Among the many key advances in both smartphone and tablet apps are:
• Fluency 2.0 language inference engine: the newest evolution in artificial intelligence-driven text entry. Fluency 2.0 uses machine learning to foretell and proper by observing how a user composes text after which predicts what they are going to likely type next.
• Cloud Learning using Gmail, Twitter and Facebook: TouchType’s cloud-based personalization service learns from a user’s message history to supply a customYfit prediction and correction experience never seen before on mobile or tablet.
• Integration of Touch Interaction Modeling: a technology that conducts real-time analysis of the user’s touchscreen typing precision to enhance word accuracy and predictions.
As well, SwiftKey Tablet X incorporates an innovative split key layout for thumb typing at the larger touchscreen tablet form factor. The idea, developed by TouchType earlier than a showcase at Google’s Honeycomb launch in February, has already been recognized for its innovative approach with a CTIA Emerging Technology award.
“Our new apps for smartphone and tablet give consumers direct access to the world’s most advanced language technology of its kind,” said Jon Reynolds, cofounder and CEO, TouchType Inc. “We’ve built SwiftKey X and SwiftKey Tablet X closely with our very passionate community of users during the last six months to provide an unrivaled touchscreen typing experience. Finally, we’re excited to provide it to the market as a complete.
Some of the wide selection of recent features coming to both smartphone and tablet applications, notable additions include:
• Keyboard themes and new customizations for both apps;
• Options to choose between greater than 20 languages;
• Flexibility to enable users to type in as much as three languages straight away, with auto-correction that’s language-aware;
• Improved settings and installer user interface.
SwiftKey X supports all Android 2.X smartphones and retails at $3.99. SwiftKey Tablet X supports all Android 2.X/3.X tablets and retails at $4.99. Both apps come in via the Android Market and Amazon Appstore. To commemorate the primary anniversary of SwiftKey’s beta launch, TouchType will offer a 48-hour promotion of the SwiftKey X and SwiftKey Tablet X for $1.99 each.*
* Promotion runs from 6am PDT 7/14 until 6am PDT 7/16
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