SwiftKey pledges more human-style predictions with 'neural network' keyboard capability

SwiftKey has wrapped up its nearly year-long pilot of a "neural network" keyboard and is bringing it to the Android masses. The company, now a Microsoft subsidiary, says that the new prediction model more closely aligns to the way that humans actually communicate. Several examples on the SwiftKey blog point to how the keyboard attempts to finish off sentences and phrases that are more likely to finish off your sentence in the way that you'd want. For example, SwiftKey will suggest finishing the sentence, "I'll meet you at the..." with "office, hotel, or airport." In the previous model, the choices would be "end, moment, or same."