Swiftkey's mission is to enhance the interaction between people and technology. Swiftkey's hallmark predictive technology learns from a personal writing style, getting smarter over time.
The objective of this project is to develop a predictive text model and demo app for use on cell phones that is fast, accurate and energy efficient.
A backoff model created with a sample of blog text successfully predicted results between 1.3% and 2.6% of the cases studied. Although these figures seem small they represent odds that are about 2000 times better than chance.
Next steps in the mobil and app development should explore:
- tweaking the model to employ smoothing techniques that improve accuracy, speed and energy efficiency,
- user testing to find ways to enhance the experience.
