Nuance introduces T9 Trace continuous touch input for touchscreen phones
Tech world is already familiar with Swype, a faster and easier way to input text with one continuous finger or stylus motion. Nuance’s recently announced T9 Trace technology for touchscreen phones appears to be a similar continuous touch input method that lets users input text by gliding their finger from one alphabet to another on their touchscreens.
The technology can be used on virtual 12-key or touchscreen QWERTY keypads with no stylus or other tool but a finger needed for input. T9 Trace is incorporated with Nuance XT9 smart input software, thus delivering phone manufacturer partners enhanced device integration times, global language support and memory consumption. Users can switch from tracing to typing and vice versa without too much effort and the entire T9 portfolio lends support to over 80 languages.
“Touchscreen devices are experiencing explosive growth, but there is high consumer demand to make text entry easier on virtual keypads. Nuance T9 Trace not only makes text input fast and easy by gliding your finger from one letter to another, but it also gives our partners an innovative way to differentiate their touchscreen phone portfolio,” commented Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile.
XT9’s word prediction and error correction abilities offer quicker input and accuracy with words and phrases appearing as the user traces out text. These capabilities are further supported by the company’s T9 Write handwriting technology that allows manufacturers to bring multimodal input to more devices across a number of mobile platforms in more markets faster.
The word is not out on any manufacturer adopting this input technology for a specific handset model as yet.
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