[de_nied]

LG also has this as a keyboard input feature named "Swype".

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swype (Not LG but seems like it's the same thing and same name)

[krackers]

The original swype algorithm was far better than whatever ML-stuff gboard and iOS have these days.

[gravescale]

Yes it's oddly not great in places. It seems to suffer from "YouTube syndrome" where it gets hooked onto something you searched for/saved once. Just because I once entered "Aldi" manually, now that always seems to have an extremely heavy positive weighting, even though I've only actually wanted it a very small number of times and "also" is far more likely as it is used at a 20:1 ratio, and I'm endlessly deleting "Aldi". Trivial Bayesian type things aside, even basic linguistic analysis, let alone an AI superpower, could estimate when "Aldi" and "also" are each appropriate in context from earlier words.

Another example: what was more likely after "20:1": "ratio" or "radio"? Get it tighter^Wtogether!

[tiagod]

I have been using SwiftKey for many years and their swipe and typing prediction are top notch.

[wheresmyshadow]

I know! Every day when GBoard breaks down on its "glide" feature I miss my Swype. It was such an amazing keyboard, it's just plain sad.

[Asraelite]

I was really sad when Swype shut down a few years ago. Is there any app with that level of quality available today?

I don't understand how things still haven't gotten better after over a decade, especially with the boom in AI and phone processing power.

[hndamien]

You can do this now on your iPhone