LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — An innovative text prediction app that takes the strain out of touchscreen typing has exceeded 100,000 downloads in its first week on Google’s Android™ Market, its developers said Wednesday.
SwiftKey™, created by British start-up company TouchType, was the most downloaded Android™ app last week according to the popular blog ‘Android and Me’. It was also chosen as a top Android pick by several other major tech sites, including Gizmodo, Tech Radar and Brothersoft Mobile.

“The last week has been phenomenal,” said Jon Reynolds, TouchType’s co-founder and CEO. “We started TouchType because we knew there must be a better way to type on a touchscreen phone. As well as exceeding all download expectations, we have been overwhelmed by the positive feedback about SwiftKey™. It has already established itself as a market-leading text entry solution.”

Tech blog Engadget heralded SwiftKey™’s launch as the introduction of “world class predictive text” for Android phones, saying the app has “an uncanny ability to guess what your next word will be… In our early tests, we’re pretty darn impressed.”

TechRadar named SwiftKey™ as the best keyboard app on Android™. Placing SwiftKey™ at the top of its Android™ apps of the week, Gizmodo said: “The star feature of SwiftKey™ is its predictive text – it literally learns the way you type.”

What makes SwiftKey™ revolutionary is TouchType’s patent-pending language technology, which
understands how words are combined within sentences and continually learns as a user writes.

“We’ve analysed over 50 billion words in nine major languages to
build the models that drive our prediction engine,” said Ben
Medlock, TouchType’s Chief Technical Officer. “SwiftKey™ is the first
text entry app on the market to harness the incredible power of
statistical language processing. It takes predictive text to a whole
new level, resulting in an unparalleled user experience.”
TouchType says the user feedback it has received so far has been
incredibly positive. “I think this is the best way to text ever
invented,” one user said. “SwiftKey Beta is probably the best thing
that happened to Android in recent times,” commented another.

The beta is currently available to all smartphones running the Google Android™ platform.
TouchType says it is working hard to make a series of enhancements in response to beta feedback
before a full paid launch later in the year. The first update to the beta was released Wednesday.

SwiftKey™ features include:
- Support for US/UK English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Swedish
- Unique next-word prediction engine based on word context
- Rapid and comprehensive learning of individual writing style
- Up to 50% greater text entry efficiency than other market solutions
- A third of next words predicted without any character input
- Relevant, personalised predictions
- Advanced error correction designed for small mobile keyboards
- Novel and intuitive user interface
- Inline spelling and grammar correction
- Automatic accent insertion (for non-English character entry)

For further information contact – http://www.swiftkey.net/contact.php