Adaptxt Evolution

Adaptxt has constantly set the benchmark for innovation in the text input space and has a rich heritage of ‘firsts’.

It was originally launched for Windows Mobile touch screen devices at a press conference in late 2006. This very first release introduced users to completely new features such as contextual next word prediction, contextual word completion, automatic learning of new words, editable user dictionary, multi-lingual text input with automatic language detection, conversion to/from English and SMS lingo, etc.

In early 2007, this was followed by support for non-touch screen Windows Mobile devices featuring physical 12-key, half-QWERTY and full-QWERTY keypads. This version included new features such as the ability to learn from documents, ability to install add-on languages during runtime, giving users control of privacy settings, etc.

Support for the Symbian platform was introduced in versions developed over the next 12 months. Whilst initial versions provided similar features as their Windows Mobile brethren, the Symbian version of Adaptxt took a major leap in April 2009. A new version was released that showed what Predictive Text 2.0 could be with innovative features like scanning the user’s address book, calendar entries, e-mail and sms messages. The same release also made text input social-aware for the first time with the ability to scan user’s facebook accounts.

Subsequent releases of Adaptxt provided professionals with the option of downloading language packs specific to their domain (e.g., Legal, Medical, Financial, etc.) for the first time. They have also provided incrementally refined error correction functionality recognizing its importance in a touch screen world. Support for different error types, automatic error correction and the ability to revert/review was introduced.

The future of Adaptxt looks exciting for couple of reasons. One is the forthcoming launch of Adaptxt for Android, which will serve as the foundation for continued innovation. Next being the contribution of key Adaptxt technology to the OpenAdaptxt open source community project. We are really looking forward to working with the community to propel OpenAdaptxt and Adaptxt even further.

PS: We should probably use this opportunity to thank some of our recent competitors and say how flattered we are that they have chosen to adopt/imitate some of the Adaptxt features mentioned above. Their popularity on Android (which we admit coming a bit late to) has validated our vision and inspired us to innovate even more!