Input technology developer TravellingWave announced the launch of what they say is the first voice-powered text prediction application for mobile phones. Intuitively called VoicePredict, it will enable mobile users to input text using their voices and by typing one or two letter key presses per word speak. The software also supports emoticons, SMS-shortcuts, and contact names, and can “act as a powerful interface to social networks, including Facebook and Twitter.”
Currently in a beta, VoicePredict is available for Windows Mobile smartphones, and is set to hit iPhone and Android platforms in early 2010.
As for TravellingWave plans with VoicePredict, the company will market its software to handset manufacturers, mobile operators, developers of mobile operating systems, speech recognition applications and text prediction software. We’ll see how that goes. In the meantime, TravellingWave argues the preliminary trials of VoicePredict indicate that, on an average users experience a 75% reduction in the number of key-presses on a phone with a QWERTY keypad and it enables 80% faster insertion of symbols and contact names.