Why hit the spacebar when you simply don’t need to? SwiftKey’s new Android keyboard is smart enough to know when you meant to insert that space, even if you didn’t in a whole sentence – no more incoherent virtual keyboard gibberish, just neatly formed prose from your frantic screen-bashing.
Using a “next generation auto-correct” system with its patent-pending “Smart Space” technology, SwiftKey will now know what you meant, even if you don’t have a clue; just think of the sheer seconds you’ll save by not having to put those damn spaces in. It’ll even learn your writing style, predicting words it thinks you’re likely to want to write from just a few letters at a time, which’ll be particularly useful after you’ve had a few on a Friday night.
Of course, SwiftKey isn’t the only predictive keyboard available on Android, but its new Smart Space really does seem like a cut above. It’s just launched in beta, so you can test it for yourself right now by joining the SwiftKey VIP forums (limited slots available). Try it out in the comments; it’ll be hilarious trying to work out what you meant even if it doesn’t do what it says on the tin. [SwiftKey via The Next Web]













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I don’t know about you, but have you ever tried typing without automatically hitting the space bar out of habit? It’s damn difficult.
I shall put it to the test after a few pints.
On a side note, for some reason the spelling and suggestions do not work when commenting on the site.
Really? Hmmm, strange. It’s just a text box.
I think it gets confused because of the address bar, so anything browser related they disable the suggestions and auto correct. I have not tried it on other sites, my loyalty to Giz UK forbids me.
Makes sense my good man, makes sense.
Tapping a sentence out of each of the three suggestions buttons on top of SwiftKey I get “Are we going for the metro. May be a good idea to advertise the same time. This email has a good day.”
Is this new?
My Sony Ericsson Arc’s built in keyboard has swipe to text functionality that autospaces after every word. (unless I tap I or A, it gets a bit confused and thinks I’m editing the word)
I know this is a long time ago, but I think this article means that you can type (not Swype) and it will give you 3 suggestions of what the sentence might mean.