Fleksy Is Another Software Keyboard Promising The Best Predictive Text
There are plenty of keyboards that have claimed to have the best prediction engines. Many come out lacking, and many don’t surface at all. We don’t know if Fleksy will ever keep its lofty promises, but it looks good so far. Fleksy’s claim to fame is that its predictions are so accurate that you can miss every letter and still end up with the right word. This means that you can type without looking, and it’s even good for the visual impaired.
The video is showing off some features and impressed citizens. It also explains how the visually impaired have increased their typing speed up to 5 times. And from the video demonstrations, it seems very impressive. However, we remain a little skeptical until we can get ours hands on it and test it for ourselves. And luckily, they have a beta sign up sheet open. But until then, I’ll let SwiftKey read my mind.
It's actually pretty damn accurate, as I've tried it on my iPhone. You don't even have to look at your screen, like at all so in that regard, it has a slight edge in accuracy over SwiftKey, but loses in the category of speed and fluidity.
Flesky, as they said in the video (and the pop ups upon a fresh install) is tailored more or less for the blind. You have to swipe left for space between each word. If the prediction is wrong, then you swipe down to get to the next word, punctuation ect... and you have to wait for the audio cue to tell you what you just typed before moving on. (I imagine you could just continue if you're proficient enough at using it... but I don't use my iPhone too much.. soooo...) Whereas in SwiftKey, as you know, you can enter in long strings of characters (fairly wrong or right) without entering the spacekey and it will pretty much nail what you were trying to say with MAYBE a little editing. I've become good enough using SwiftKey where I can fly through sentences without having to look much.
Maybe they will fix this in the Android version, but in Flesky for iOS, you have to go into the app itself to type, then send it to where ever you want the text to go. Though I'm sure that has more to do with Apple forcing you to use their keyboard than the app itself.
Long story short SwiftKey > Flesky. So you're not missing much. Though I am curious to see how the Android app will turn out.
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