Swype Reviewer’S Guide
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Swype Reviewer’s Guide The latest update to Nuance’s Swype keyboard for Android brings new Star Trek themes that feature characters and settings from some of the show’s most iconic installments. 19 Star Trek themes are available to choose from. In addition, 20 premium themes for Swype are also available, allowing users to personalize their typing experience more than ever. Swype has also been upgraded with a new Emoji keyboard that lets users quickly and easily browse hundreds of different options to find the right ones to depict their thoughts, emotions, and reactions. The following reviewer’s guide provides a walkthrough of the new features available for Swype for Android. Once you have activated Swype, please refer to this document for step- by-step instructions for downloading and testing the new Star Trek and premium themes, the Emoji keyboard, and other enhanced features, like intelligent phrase prediction. New Features Swype Store and Premium Downloadable Themes : Swype for Android now features an all-new Swype Store and more premium keyboard themes. Users can choose from nearly 80 themes to customize the Swype keyboard to their preference. This includes 19 Star Trek-branded keyboards with designs that feature characters from Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation , including Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Sulu and more. Beyond the new Star Trek themes, users can purchase additional colorful themes via the Swype Store. • Press-hold the Swype Key to access the Swype Store To Try Out New Themes: • Tap on a theme you wish to preview • Tap on “Buy” to open the purchasing prompt • You should see a notice that says, “This is a test order, you will not be charged” o Make sure that you see the above message when attempting to purchase. Please contact us if you do not. • Depending on your personal Google Play settings, you may be asked for your Google Play password and CVC, but no charges will be made. • Because this replicates the Google Store purchase process, for each theme tested, you will receive a receipt from Google Play that reads, “ Test: Your Google Play Order Receipt.” However, no charges will have been made. Emoji Keyboard : Swype’s Emoji Keyboard offers Emoji in a more visual and accessible way. Quickly browse through hundreds of Emoji and express your emotions and reactions. • Press-hold the return key to access the Emoji Keyboard Intuitive Emoji : In addition to the Emoji Keyboard, Swype offers Emoji directly via the Word Choice List. Swype or Tap certain words to input them as Emoji. ••• For example, tap or Swype the word “Happy” to see a smiley Emoji suggested Powerful Predictions Two Word Phrase Prediction: Swype offers phrase predictions that allow users to more quickly and easily input commonly used phrases. After entering a word that is part of a phrase, Swype can offer multiple words as one selection. • Open messaging • Swype “What’s for dinner tonight?” • Start a new sentence, Swype “What’s for” • Select “dinner tonight” from the Word Choice List Punctuation Prediction : The Swype keyboard will suggest punctuation as a Next Word Prediction option. If a user ends a phrase with a specific punctuation, they will see that punctuation suggested in the Word Choice List. • Open messaging application • Enter “Hey, how’s it going?” • Delete all text • Enter “Hey, how’s it going” • Press space • “?” displays as a Next Word Prediction option Next Word Prediction : Swype’s personal language model with next word prediction is more intelligent than ever. Swype also has the most extensive phrase and sentence prediction models available, which means you can predict words in commonly used phrases like “Best of the best,” “Dancing with the stars,” and “Nail on the head.” • Open messaging application • Swype in the sentence: “Ben, how are you doing” • Delete sentence and then start Swyping in the sentence again. Complete sentence using words that pop up in Word Choice List Extended Phrase Prediction : • Open messaging application • Swype “of the” then press space, note Word Choice options above the keyboard • Delete all entered text • Input “Best” • Complete sentence by selecting words from word choice list to enter “of the best” • Enter “Return of the” press space • Observe “Jedi” or “king” as options Bilingual Support : Users can enter words from two languages at once. Swype allows users to select a language pair (e.g. English and Spanish) for a more seamless bilingual experience. Words suggested by Swype will automatically adjust to the bilingual user’s language preference. • Long press on the Swype key, then tap on the menu icon in the top left to enter Settings • Select “Languages” • Go to “Download languages” and download Spanish (Español) • Enable Spanish (Español) under “Change current language” • Select “Type in two languages” under your currently selected language • Select English • Return to messaging • Trace a phrase that includes English and Spanish (e.g. “Teclea mas rapido with Swype”) Customization Options Adjustable Long-Press Delay : Users are able to change the time between pressing a key and seeing a pop-up for the secondary character of that key. • Long press on the V key to select the asterisk * • Long press on the Swype key, then tap on the menu icon in the top left to enter Settings • Select “Settings”, then “Long-press delay” • Adjust long-press delay to the maximum (1000ms), Press “OK” • Return to messaging • Long press on the V key and select * • Set Long-press delay to minimum (250ms) • Long press on the V key and select * Adjustable Keyboard Height : The height of the keyboard can be changed in both the portrait and landscape orientations. • Enter a text field so that the keyboard displays • Press-hold the Swype key, then tap on the menu icon in the top left to enter Settings • Select “Themes” then select the gear icon on the top right • Tap on “Keyboard height” • Adjust to your desired settings • Return to the keyboard Quick Keyboard and Layer Switching : Users can easily switch between the number, edit, handwriting and emoticon layers via a press- hold on the symbols key followed by a slide. Users can also quickly switch to mini left, mini right, split or floating keyboards using the same method. • Press-hold on the ‘?123’ key • Slide left and right through available layers • Select the number, or edit layer (four outward pointing arrows) • Press ‘ABC’ to return to the primary keyboard Keyboard Layout Switching : Users of alphabetic languages can choose which keyboard layout they want to use. For instance, if you want to use French but are not used to the standard French AZERTY layout, you can select the more familiar QWERTY keyboard. • Long press the Swype key and select “Languages” then “Download languages” • Download “Francais” • After download is complete go back and “Change current language” to Francais • Enter messaging (observe: Keyboard is in AZERTY) • Long press the Swype key and select “Languages” • Select the keyboard icon to the right of “Francais”, then select QWERTY • Return to text field and Swype “C’est la vie” Gestures and Smart Features Gestures - Punctuation & Editing: Swype from the comma, period or other punctuation to the Space key to quickly enter punctuation. Editing gestures let you quickly copy, cut, paste and select all text. • Open messaging application and enter “Swype on Google Play” • Swype from the Swype key to A to “Select all Text” • Swype from the Swype key to X to “Cut” • Swype from the Swype key to V to “Paste” • Swype from the Swype key to S to “Search” (text must be selected) Voice/Text Sync: With Dragon Dictation integrated into the keyboard, Swype can share your user dictionary across text and speech. • Press the Microphone Key and speak: “I like chicken tikka masala”. Tikka is not in the dictionary and will not be dictated correctly • Tap in “Tikka” and select it from the Word Choice List to add the word to your dictionary • Press Microphone key and say: “Watch the power of synchronization” • Press the Microphone key and now say: “I like chicken tikka masala”. Swype will get it right. Smart Touch : Swype learns your unique style of input and continuously evolves and adapts to your typing patterns. Smart Touch takes into account common and consistent user typing offsets as well as conditional probability of the next letter. True A ccessibility Accessibility Support : The Swype keyboard supports Android’s “Talkback” and “Explore by Touch” accessibility features. When accessibility features are enabled and the user inputs text, it will be spoken back to the user. With “Explore by Touch” enabled, users can navigate through the keyboard and hear each key spoken aloud. Note: “Talkback” and/or “Explore by touch” must be enabled in Device Settings before this functionality will be available. Check Settings > Accessibility on your device to enable these features. Scrub Gesture Demo: The scrub gesture can be used to select words in the Word Choice List. • Type a word (e.g. “help”) • Navigate from the keyboard up and outside the keyboard to activate this gesture • Once activated, the keyboard will highlight and announce the first word in the word choice list • Make a clockwise circular motion to highlight the next word in the word choice list • Scroll through a few more words using this clockwise circular gesture • Make counter-clockwise circular motions to highlight the previous word until you return to your desired replacement • Release your finger to input your preferred word choice Connected Features Living Language: Swype keeps you always up to date with a real-time, crowd-sourced and news-derived language model. This gives you immediate access to a continuously updated corpus of trending words and language from around the Internet.