Thursday 15 September 2016
SwiftKey has rebuilt its keyboard app for Android from the ground up to improve predictions. The app – which Microsoft acquired in February – previously relied on an n-gram model, which surfaced predictions based on the last two words you’ve typed, as well as the words and phrases you’ve trained it with. As a result, it’d sometimes offer up useless predictions like ‘Let’s meet at the moment.’ The new neural network model looks at more words in your input, compare them and understand the relationships between them to produce more meaningful predictions, like ‘Let’s meet at the office / airport…
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