Technology / Mobile phone
Google launches Ndebele keyboard App
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.
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.
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