Swiftkey Syncs Typing Habit Across Android Devices

SwiftKey
(Touchtype Ltd.), the Android keyboard app, unveiled a suite of
services called SwiftKey
cloud as part of its latest beta release on Tuesday.

It gives users of the app the ability
to backup and sync their personal writing style across multiple
devices, creating a cloud-based hub for each user’s personal language
profile.

Using language analysis of major news
stories and popular events, SwiftKey cloud also updates the
keyboard’s predictions with daily trending phrases, letting users
discuss the day’s current affairs with ease. SwiftKey cloud makes it
easier to personalize the keyboard based on online message archives,
with a management console and support for Yahoo! Mail.

SwiftKey cloud comes as part of
SwiftKey 4.2 Beta, available as a
free download

Enabling SwiftKey cloud brings these
three features:

• Backup and Sync –
  The words and phrases that matter to you, backed up and synced across
  all of your devices. If your mobile or tablet is upgraded, lost or
  stolen, your personal profile is kept safe in the cloud, giving you
  the personalized experience withins of installing the app on a new
  device.

• Trending Phrases – The
  technology analyzes Twitter and other news sources to sift out the
  most relevant daily discussions and localized trending topics. Using
  advanced language technology, it captures the day’s most important
  phrases from the worlds of news, showbiz and sport to help you type
  about what’s on the agenda that day. Launch support for users of US
  and UK English, and 11 other languages with more coming soon.

• Enhanced Personalization – The
  beta release makes it easier to ensure your next-word predictions and
  auto-corrections are tailored to you. Integration with the Gmail and
  Facebook APIs allows for ‘one-click’ personalization for accounts
  registered on your device, and Yahoo! Mail has been added alongside
  Twitter, RSS and SMS personalization options.

"SwiftKey cloud represents the
next step in personalized technology," SwiftKey co-founder
and CTO Ben Medlock said. "The words and phrases that matter
to you are intelligently updated across all your devices and kept
safe in case you upgrade your phone or it is lost or stolen. Every
day, SwiftKey will be in tune with your world, ready to offer
predictions for the news events, sporting fixtures or celebrities
that are getting people talking where you are. What’s more, through
enhanced personalization, SwiftKey cloud gets to know you better than
ever before – and you can enable this all with a single tap,"
Medlock continued.

SwiftKey 4.2 beta also introduces other features including a clearer settings menu and
enhanced configuration options for devices with a built-in or
Bluetooth-attached physical keyboard.