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Google launches Ndebele keyboard App

by Staff reporter
23 Aug 2013 at 03:30hrs | Views
Google has taken a leap across language barriers by launching its Google Keyboard, an app which has as one of its key languages, a composite Nguni blend of Ndebele and Zulu.

The keyboard app which runs on the Samsung Galaxy S3 & S4 android phones (it will not run on any earlier Samsung phones), allows for ease of access in terms of typing and intuitively interpreting what a person wants to type even when they make a mistake. It utilises a tactical heuristic knowledge database which allows the phone's keyboard to assist the user more like another human being. After 8 weeks of testing the app, this reporter has concluded the app is arguably one of the most advanced developments in computer technology.

Even when one makes a mistake, the phone, using a complex compilation of calculated responses, jumps ahead in 'thinking' for the user.

So what does this mean then?
A Ndebele/Zulu speaking person is now able to speak into their phone and it does the typing for them. In a few seconds,  text messages can now be compiled and sent in whim. Readers may contact the author for an illustration of how the app works.

Source - zimeye