Applications
Possible benefits for OEMs, system and application partners:
- Uncompromising Italian text input ("better than with a plain PC keyboard")
- Smaller keyboards and/or larger keys (fewer errors)
- Fewer product variations (Italian SKUs may use English keyboard layout)
- Increased user satisfaction
End-user perspective:
- For all writers of Italian, regardless of the keyboard (even with an Italian keyboard), because our system reduces errors, is more intuitive and offers a broader range of characters even compared to a keyboard with accents
- Faster input, reduced "finger travel", fewer errors, increased confidence and productivity
- Even more added value for international organizations, Italian language schools and anyone writing in Italian with a non-Italian keyboard (e.g. programmers who prefer the US layout)
Other application scenarios:
- Search engine text normalization
- With predictive input: improved disambiguation, more accurate new words
- Potential for touch-based implementation variations
Primary markets:
- Italy (60 million inhabitants), ranging between the top 8 and top 12 worldwide in mobile phones and personal computers (depending on metrics)
- Italian (more than 90 million speakers), including a large community of expats (more than 3 million registered voters) and active bilingual speakers
Sample application: Accenti software for Windows. Accenti works in real time during typing (with any software).