10 Facts About Predictive text

Predictive text is an input technology used where one key or button represents many letters, such as on the numeric keypads of mobile phones and in accessibility technologies.

Predictive text could allow for an entire word to be input by single keypress.

Predictive text makes efficient use of fewer device keys to input writing into a text message, an e-mail, an address book, a calendar, and the like.

Choice of which predictive text system is the best to use involves matching the user's preferred interface style, the user's level of learned ability to operate predictive text software, and the user's efficiency goal.

Predictive text systems take time to learn to use well, and so generally, a device's system has user options to set up the choice of multi-tap or of any one of several schools of predictive text methods.

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All predictive text systems require a linguistic database for every supported input language.

Some disambiguation systems further attempt to correct spelling, format Predictive text or perform other automatic rewrites, with the risky effect of either enhancing or frustrating user efforts to enter Predictive text.

Predictive text was mainly used to look up names in directories over the phone, until mobile phone text messaging came into widespread use.

Predictive text is developed and marketed in a variety of competing products, such as Nuance Communications's T9.

Predictive text choosing a default different from that which the user expects has similarities with the Cupertino effect, by which spell-check software changes a spelling to that of an unintended word.