Submission + - Predictive text input using AJAX and AI (lipik.in)
ohell writes: lipik.in is a new website combining stochastic language modelling with an AJAX-enabled front-end to show a virtual keyboard that attempts to anticipate what the user wants to type. It appears to be targeted at users unfamiliar with keyboard layouts in a language, or who find keyboards hard to use. The service can be used to compose documents using only the mouse (IME with predictive suggestions) or like a normal keyboard (useful if you don't have access to your usual keyboard layout).
Apart from serving as accessibility aid, this concept has the potential to make computers accessible for people whose languages are just too hard to type (e.g. Chinese, Arabic etc.) Sadly, there is no facility to email the created text, but there is a very basic content management system and the blurb claims that the predictions adapt to the users over time. In any case, it is a step towards internationalization of the web. There is a link to a demonstration once you get past the welcome page, which lets the concept be tried out without having to create an account.
The interaction appears to be very bandwidth intensive: it would be interesting to see how all the funky AJAX copes with the slashdot effect...
Apart from serving as accessibility aid, this concept has the potential to make computers accessible for people whose languages are just too hard to type (e.g. Chinese, Arabic etc.) Sadly, there is no facility to email the created text, but there is a very basic content management system and the blurb claims that the predictions adapt to the users over time. In any case, it is a step towards internationalization of the web. There is a link to a demonstration once you get past the welcome page, which lets the concept be tried out without having to create an account.
The interaction appears to be very bandwidth intensive: it would be interesting to see how all the funky AJAX copes with the slashdot effect...