TouchPal Launches Talia, An AI Powered Virtual Keyboard Assistant

TouchPal, a very popular AI-powered virtual keyboard for Android devices (with more than 700m users) recently unveiled something called Talia, a voice-activated intelligent assistant. While I prefer to live in the physical keyboard world (hello BlackBerry KEY2), using a virtual keyboard is pretty much inevitable if you have a modern smartphone. TouchPal pairs Android keyboards to the functionality of all the apps we addictively use on the daily: Facebook, Instagram, Snap, LinkedIn, YouTube, Chrome, and so on. TouchPal learns from user input to personalize and proactively tailor recommendations, suggestions and custom content. It is also an ad-supported network and requires a ton of permissions in order to operate on your phone. Considering how much it needs to know in order to make your life (I guess) more streamlined, this makes sense.