Motorola Improves Predictive Text Entry

Motorola's Improved Predictive Text Input Solution Simplifies Messaging in Eight Additional Languages.
Motorola announced today enhancements to its iTAP™ input technology, making it faster and easier for people to compose and send text messages.

Enhancements to iTAP 5.4 include:

- Predictive text input solution in eight new languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Greek, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog and Turkish.

- user dictionary that provides the user the ability to create and store “personalized” words and re-sorts alternates based on the usage

- Easy mode switching, from predictive to multi-tap to numeric to symbols modes

- Word completion, which means the user need not enter all key presses required to compose words and;

- Smart punctuation, which offers intelligent spacing for symbols and punctuation marks as well as recognition of contractions for subjects (i.e. I'll, I'd, It's, etc.).

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