Part of the way we optimised our keyboard app was to use hexagonal keys rather than regular square or rectangular keys. So, to measure how Typewise performs against competitors, we have created a set of benchmarks which allows us to compare the quality of our autocorrection and text prediction AI, to them. How does Typewise’s autocorrect and text prediction AI differ to competitors?Ĭomparing the nuts and bolts of Typewise’s AI to the downloadable keyboards from the big tech players – Google, Apple and Microsoft – is a challenge because they don't publicly share how they build their autocorrect AI. If you're a big company and you change things like this, you're going to upset far more users than if you're a small, agile startup like Typewise and you can just rapidly iterate and improve.
With something like autocorrect, Big Tech’s attitude can be “don't break it”, which can mean that new ideas don’t get implemented. There’s also an oddity in the autocorrect world, in that you’d expect Google’s Gboard or Apple Keyboard to get better and better each year, but lots of people will tell you otherwise for example they say that Gboard autocorrect five years ago was the best autocorrect and then it just got worse and worse. These sorts of errors are extremely irritating and that’s one of the reasons why we built our autocorrect undo button into our system, so you can revert a bad autocorrection in one tap, and in doing so train our AI so that it doesn’t happen again. Typewise autocorrection can join words with an extra space, or separate words where a space has been missed Over-aggressive autocorrect is still an issue on some of the big tech platforms (Google, Apple, Microsoft) you'll see for example, somebody wanting to type ‘heaven and hell’ and their phone keyboard will continually correct ‘hell’ to ‘heal’. One of the main problems that we at Typewise are trying to fix, is changing correctly typed words to incorrect words. No one, even the big tech giants, have yet created an autocorrect and text prediction system that works perfectly. The days of extremely inaccurate autocorrect fails may be behind us, but despite all the advances in smartphone keyboard autocorrect tech, even today you’ll find plenty of discussions on Reddit and such highlighting how many problems still exist with autocorrect.
What are the problems that Typewise’s autocorrect & text prediction AI is trying to solve? George Roberts, Senior AI Engineer at Typewise, reveals how we build our AI to beat the competition. Although it’s Typewise’s unique hexagonal keyboard that tends to catch people’s eye at first, it’s our advanced autocorrect and text prediction AI under the hood that provides the power behind our product.
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