Comments on: How to fix multi-tap http://blog.javia.org/how-to-fix-multi-tap/ Android apps Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:30:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Neil Harding http://blog.javia.org/how-to-fix-multi-tap/comment-page-1/#comment-3027 Neil Harding Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:33:04 +0000 http://blog.javia.org/?p=65#comment-3027 ASTEROID is a reasonably well know English word that uses 8 of the 9 initial letters that you've picked so would be a good name to call the system. The 0 key should be space, dot, comma (and # to switch between numeric / text) so you can do "call me on 123 456789" and * could switch from abc,Abc,accented ASTEROID is a reasonably well know English word that uses 8 of the 9 initial letters that you’ve picked so would be a good name to call the system. The 0 key should be space, dot, comma (and # to switch between numeric / text) so you can do “call me on 123 456789″ and * could switch from abc,Abc,accented

]]> By: amras666 http://blog.javia.org/how-to-fix-multi-tap/comment-page-1/#comment-126 amras666 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:12:19 +0000 http://blog.javia.org/?p=65#comment-126 Got here by accident (via menstral link) but I really enjoy your blog. I know I should rather comment on latest posts, but I would rather ask you personally - what schema would you propose specificaly for polish keyboard? I am willing to modify firmware in order to speed up my text input on Nokia phone - and I find your idea extremely relevant to my interests. Got here by accident (via menstral link) but I really enjoy your blog. I know I should rather comment on latest posts, but I would rather ask you personally – what schema would you propose specificaly for polish keyboard?

I am willing to modify firmware in order to speed up my text input on Nokia phone – and I find your idea extremely relevant to my interests.

]]> By: mihai http://blog.javia.org/how-to-fix-multi-tap/comment-page-1/#comment-125 mihai Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:35:41 +0000 http://blog.javia.org/?p=65#comment-125 Ok, I think I understand. The goal of the change is to get "I" and "U" (vocals) on different keys, and to get "I" and "Y" (both 'accentable') on different keys? I'll think of it, and make some bigram cost calculation to see what would be the impact on English. One problem is that, while I found single-letter frequency for a few languages (French, Spanish, German, Polish, Romanian), I have bigram-frequency only for English, and thus the second letter was optimized for English only. But one important thing is that I don't want to put 'accented' characters after the normal ones on the same key (as it is now in multi-tap), because this slows down non-accented typing considerably. I would rather put 'modifiers' (such as: cedilla, grave, acute, etc) on the "*" key, and a special letter is typed by typing the normal letter, followed by the modifier. Ok, I think I understand. The goal of the change is to get “I” and “U” (vocals) on different keys, and to get “I” and “Y” (both ‘accentable’) on different keys? I’ll think of it, and make some bigram cost calculation to see what would be the impact on English.

One problem is that, while I found single-letter frequency for a few languages (French, Spanish, German, Polish, Romanian), I have bigram-frequency only for English, and thus the second letter was optimized for English only.

But one important thing is that I don’t want to put ‘accented’ characters after the normal ones on the same key (as it is now in multi-tap), because this slows down non-accented typing considerably. I would rather put ‘modifiers’ (such as: cedilla, grave, acute, etc) on the “*” key, and a special letter is typed by typing the normal letter, followed by the modifier.

]]> By: Martin http://blog.javia.org/how-to-fix-multi-tap/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Martin Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:35:38 +0000 http://blog.javia.org/?p=65#comment-127 I like the proposal, but would change "U" with "M" and "Y" with "X". Rational: In some (south and middle) European languages, accented variants of letters exist, e.g. vocals with accent (grave, acute, circumflex, dieresis), a and o with even more variants like "ae" and "o with /", c with cedilla, n with tilde, sharp s, y with accent grave or dieresis. To avoid "over-assigned" keys, just don't put two vocals or one of c, n, s, y on the same key. For slavic languages things are presumably much more complicated, but at least three of the six official UNO languages (english, french, spanish) would benefit. I like the proposal, but would change “U” with “M” and “Y” with “X”. Rational: In some (south and middle) European languages, accented variants of letters exist, e.g. vocals with accent (grave, acute, circumflex, dieresis), a and o with even more variants like “ae” and “o with /”, c with cedilla, n with tilde, sharp s, y with accent grave or dieresis. To avoid “over-assigned” keys, just don’t put two vocals or one of c, n, s, y on the same key. For slavic languages things are presumably much more complicated, but at least three of the six official UNO languages (english, french, spanish) would benefit.

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