Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8.1 last week. They introduced many new features including Word Flow keyboard, Microsoft’s latest keyboard for Windows Phone. Along with traditional touch typing Word Flow introduced ‘shape writing’.
Word Flow is completely unique keyboard. It predicts your next word just like popular SwiftKey for Android. In addition it also predicts the suitable emoticons for you, isn’t it nice? Word Flow has set a new world record to be the fastest keyboard in the world.
The winning entry was typed by a 15 years old boy Gaurav Sharma and is exactly 160 character long and it is:
“The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”
It took just 18.44 seconds to write these 160 characters and it beats the old record by 20.53 milliseconds.
Word Flow for Windows Phone 8.1 supports 16 languages:
English (India); English (United Kingdom); English (United States);Hindi (Latin); Polish; Portuguese (Brazil); Russian; Spanish (Mexico); Spanish (Spain); Finnish; French (France); German; Arabic (Saudi Arabia); Italian; Turkish; Dutch (Netherlands)
Tim Paek, senior researcher at Microsoft, describes the benefits of Word Flow. He said:
“Instead of tapping every single letter, you’re drawing a line that connects all the letters of the word you’re trying to write. When you continuously draw that line, you are defining a shape. Eventually, you stop thinking about the letters altogether and develop muscle memory for that shape.”
So what do you think of the new Word Flow for Windows Phone?
Source: Microsoft Research
Via: GSMArena