Captain’s Log: Nuance’s Swype Now Features Star Trek™ Themes and an All-New Emoji Keyboard
August 27 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
The Keyboard that Revolutionized Text Input
Now Provides More Ways to Express Yourself with Themed Keyboards,
Hundreds of Emojis and New Feature Updates
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that
its innovative Swype keyboard for Android is now even more
customizable with brand new Star Trek keyboard themes and an
all-new Emoji keyboard. Android users can input text faster and
easier than ever with Swype’s predictive text – all with the Emoji
and keyboard themes that match their personality.
Swype for Android now features 19 different Star Trek-branded
keyboards available for in-app purchase. Under license by CBS
Consumer Products, the designs feature characters and images from
Star TrekTM: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next
GenerationTM, including Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Sulu, Data, Worf,
the Starship Enterprise, and others. So whether you’re texting
fellow Star Trek fans about what to wear to the Star Trek
convention this summer or posting your favorite Star Trek
memorabilia photos to Instagram, Swype’s latest lineup of themed
keyboards keeps you fully immersed in the Star Trek experience
while you stay connected.
Swype for Android has also enhanced its Emoji experience with a
brand new Emoji keyboard. Swype already predicts and suggests
Emojis as you input words and phrases, and its new Emoji keyboard
lets you quickly and easily browse through hundreds of different
options. Having hundreds of Emoji at your disposal allows you to
best depict your thoughts, emotions and reactions– just as you
would if you were talking in person. Swype’s new Emoji keyboard
offers a smooth look and feel, providing fun animations when you
make a selection, quickly snapping between types of Emoji, and
offering convenient access to recently-used Emojis.
“The latest Swype keyboard for Android demonstrates that the
keyboard experience goes beyond just the words on the screen, with
more options for users to incorporate their personalities and
interests,” said Scott Taylor, senior vice president, Mobile
Devices, Nuance. “So while we continue to innovate our pioneering
predictive input and intelligent tracing technology, we’re also
focused on equipping Swype with new features and options to give
consumers the best possible experience on Android.”
Additional recent feature updates include:
- Swype has enhanced its phrase
prediction capabilities so multiple words appear as a phrase choice
as you input text – making it faster and easier to say or do what
you want on your Android keyboard.
- Swype also offers predictive number
entry. By tapping on keys that have numbers as secondary
characters, Swype will provide a number and symbol suggestion. For
example, tapping “ejqp” suggests “3:10”, or “swpp” suggests
“$200”.
- Swype’s Chinese language support is now
improved by the power of the cloud. Chinese language users can
enjoy cloud-based predictions that draw from more sophisticated and
robust language models. Further, Chinese cloud sentence prediction
leverages Swype’s Living Language feature, providing popular and
crowd-sourced words and phrases from around the world.
- An updated library of new non-Star Trek
themes for more personalization and customization options.
Availability
The new updates to Swype, including Star Trek themes and the
Emoji keyboard, are now available. Individual themes are $0.99 –
$1.99 each with theme bundles starting as low as $2.99. For
additional information, please visit www.swype.com.
Some items listed are opt-in connected features and are not
required to use the Swype learning, living, keyboard. They include
crowd-sourced updates (Living Language dialect support), hot words,
Backup and Sync, Chinese cloud-based language prediction, and
Dragon Dictation.
Nuance’s portfolio of voice, touch and natural language
understanding innovations are defining a new generation of
intelligent systems and personal assistant technologies. With
Nuance technology, people experience more humanized interactions
with the world’s best phones, tablets, computers, cars, TVs, apps
and services from leading manufacturers and operators.
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About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of voice and
language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world.
Its technologies, applications and services make the user
experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact
with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and
thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications.
For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
Nuance, Swype and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States of America and/or other countries. All other
company names or product names may be the trademarks of their
respective owners.
TM & © 2015 CBS Studios Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and
logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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