SwiftKey announce Neural Alpha keyboard

SwiftKey Neural Alpha is a new smartphone keyboard that uses artificial neural network to provide stronger prediction and language correction than existing SwiftKey keyboard. SwiftKey Neural keyboard employs machine learning based on massive language data, learns faster (as users type, correct, change words) when compared to existing keyboards.

SwiftKey Neural Alpha variant is available now for smartphones on Android 4.4 (KitKat) and above in SwiftKey Greenhouse.Do note that this is alpha variant and expect bugs/inconsistencies. Thanks to machine learning through huge amount of data, SwiftKey Neural will be able to capture relationship between words in better manner and the prediction accuracy increases much faster in this. Within the neural model, words can be visualized in ‘clusters’, located at varying degrees of proximity to one another.

“This is the first step in our exploration of neural networks for touchscreen keyboards. We envision that this powerful technology will fundamentally change the way we type on smartphones over the next five years. Rather than solely predicting your next word, we’re working hard on building a framework for the keyboard of tomorrow. It’s just possible that using this approach the keyboard of the future could know you so well, it’d accurately predict your entire messages for you, in your tone of voice, reflecting the events that go on in your daily life (see concept keyboard below).”, said, SwiftKey.

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