Swype has just announced another update for their popular keyboard and users taking part in the BETA can enjoy it right now. The last update was back in November and brought a few awesome new features but this newest update is even better. Swype has now add Dragon Dictation for ultimate voice control and TTS (Text to Speech) since being bought by Nuance. They’ve also added support for over 50 languages and more.
Not only has TTS with Dragon Dictation been integrated but you can now download full support for over 50+ languages all from inside the Swype settings menu right to your device for quick and easy convenience. We have a neat little hands-on video showing you just how awesome those finger ninjas from Swype are now that Dragon is on board so check it out below. Here’s the beta changelog:
— Added Dragon Dictation as voice-to-text provider
— Enabled language downloads for over 50+ languages, accessible through Swype Settings -> Language Downloads
— Advanced Language Modeling to give further improved suggestions when Swyping, based on language context
— (More info coming soon)
The context prediction and language modeling has been given a complete overhaul making it extremely accurate giving an increase of around 40% for accuracy. Now it will learn as you Swype and even display the correct word based on the context of the sentence and more. The video shows this quite clearly with the whole “mosh pit” thing so we’ll leave it at that. Many 3rd party keyboards already have context prediction and have for a long while so it’s good to see Swype ramping up in that department.
The new Swype Beta v3.26.92 is available today over at the Swype Beta Forums and all the details and history of past updates is neatly provided via the links below. Get to swpying and enjoy that Dragon Dictation.
Story Timeline
- Swype Beta for Android on Mar 5th 2010
- Swype Beta Now Open to All (Limited Time) on Jun 16th 2010
- Swype 3.0 for Honeycomb BETA Review on Jun 14th 2011
- Swype Beta 3.25 Now Available with Copy/Paste Features and more [Video] on Aug 23rd 2011
- Nuance Sweeps Up Swype for $100 Million on Oct 6th 2011
- Swype Beta updated v3.26 features cleaner layout and automatic updates [Video] on Oct 19th 2011
- Swype OTA update coming soon, brings context prediction and more on Nov 3rd 2011
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