BlindType - freaking amazing

[Gattaca]

Looks legit!

 

[coondogg97]

The demo is on an ipad though. We'll see how good it is on a smaller smartphone screen eh?

I can already type faster than that guy was with the pullout droid keyboard (after a lot of practice).

It is not a demo on the ipad. It's clearly an iPHONE.

Unless its this dudes iPad.

 

[Briankbl]

The demo is on an ipad though. We'll see how good it is on a smaller smartphone screen eh?

I can already type faster than that guy was with the pullout droid keyboard (after a lot of practice).

It is not a demo on the ipad. It's clearly an iPHONE.

Unless its this dudes iPad.

lol That's the Wii Controller - Candy Container, right? We used to sell those at Blockbuster.

 

[wuyanks]

this looks amazing. can't wait.

 

[rayvincent]

eh, I just typed faster than the guy in the speed demonstration at the end of the video with my SlideIt, i'm not impressed. plus I know where my keyboard letters are and I slide all the time without looking. I'll stick with SlideIt.

 

[Briankbl]

BlindType has a new Demo video available that looks simply jaw-dropping! Ray, I'd like to see you beat the person's speed in THIS video! There is also a new hands-on article as well:

Exclusive: I Used BlindType, Virtual Keyboard of the Future | Singularity Hub

[video=youtube;7gDF4ocLhQM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDF4ocLhQM]YouTube - BlindType - Demo2[/video]

 

[tktouch12]

if its really that good, then i cant wait. this would be so amazing.

but, last time i checked you cant use a different keyboard on ios? anyway, it'll be great for android

 

[Martin030908]

The demo is on an ipad though. We'll see how good it is on a smaller smartphone screen eh?

I can already type faster than that guy was with the pullout droid keyboard (after a lot of practice).

It is not a demo on the ipad. It's clearly an iPHONE.

Unless its this dudes iPad.

No it's the iPhone.

 

[DF Smod]

nice concept, I would have to test it out to be sold on it

 

[gadgetrants]

BlindType has a new Demo video available that looks simply jaw-dropping! Ray, I'd like to see you beat the person's speed in THIS video! There is also a new hands-on article as well:

Exclusive: I Used BlindType, Virtual Keyboard of the Future | Singularity Hub

YouTube - BlindType - Demo2

I want to think out loud for a second.

I kind of work in AI--research, not product development--and I have a basic idea of the problem being solved here. Like Google's speech recognition engine, BlindType is using contextual information like statistical associations between words, and between letters within words (e.g., how often does the letter sequence "xqa" occur in English...how often does "pra" occur, etc.) to assign probabilities (or confidence estimates) to letters (e.g., hidden Markov Models, Bayesian inference, etc.).

In principle, this is how autospell works: you type "blant" and the computer says "'blant' not found in dictionary...let's assume it's off by one letter...which 1-letter substitutions create a real word?...'bland'? 'blunt'?"

But a good AI designer will think up better heuristics, and a good developer will collect mountains of user-data to feed the statistical estimates. For example, which letters are easy to reach? which ones are easy to miss?

Bottom line? I have two different reactions at this point:

(1) This program is amazing, and will win dozens of awards for solving the touch-type recognition problem.

Or

(2) What we're seeing is a very carefully crafted demonstration that does not reflect real-world use.

Call me a skeptic. ATM I'm leaning toward (2).

-Matt

 

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BlindType has a new Demo video available that looks simply jaw-dropping! Ray, I'd like to see you beat the person's speed in THIS video! There is also a new hands-on article as well:

Exclusive: I Used BlindType, Virtual Keyboard of the Future | Singularity Hub

YouTube - BlindType - Demo2

I want to think out loud for a second.

I kind of work in AI--research, not product development--and I have a basic idea of the problem being solved here. Like Google's speech recognition engine, BlindType is using contextual information like statistical associations between words, and between letters within words (e.g., how often does the letter sequence "xqa" occur in English...how often does "pra" occur, etc.) to assign probabilities (or confidence estimates) to letters (e.g., hidden Markov Models, Bayesian inference, etc.).

In principle, this is how autospell works: you type "blant" and the computer says "'blant' not found in dictionary...let's assume it's off by one letter...which 1-letter substitutions create a real word?...'bland'? 'blunt'?"

But a good AI designer will think up better heuristics, and a good developer will collect mountains of user-data to feed the statistical estimates. For example, which letters are easy to reach? which ones are easy to miss?

Bottom line? I have two different reactions at this point:

(1) This program is amazing, and will win dozens of awards for solving the touch-type recognition problem.

Or

(2) What we're seeing is a very carefully crafted demonstration that does not reflect real-world use.

Call me a skeptic. ATM I'm leaning toward (2).

-Matt

I was thinking the same thing you are. The developer obviously knew what he would be typing and probably typed it in as practice countless times before. The software simply remembers his previous text.

I somehow doubt that a smalltime developer like BlindType would be able to collect the "mountains" of user data.

However, it is a good thing more and more of these keyboard alternatives are popping up. Maybe a distinguished company can pick the idea up and actually build from it.

 

[ChugIt]

Looks like another app so people can have an excuse to text and drive with confidence and run a stop sign and permanently disable someone, exactly what happened to me.
Are people REALLY that lazy that they need this app?

 

[tiggerxplur]

definately awesome

 

[rayvincent]

Brian, it's not just about speed although that was the thing I keyed on.
When using SlideIt, and I'm sure others using swipe etc. can also attest that once you get used to it I can typically type (slide) txt messages one handed and not looking at the screen.
You get a feel for swiping words. with BlindType you still are leaning to using two hands to type. Heck, I could be swiping with one hand and doing something completely different with the other like holding my dog's leash while on a walk, eating an ice cream cone or dare I say ... driving (of course anyone with common sense wouldn't text and drive).
SlideIt, Swipe,Shapewriter people back me up here... your thoughts?
If you like to type the old fashioned way then this is for you, these sliding programs are not only improving the wheel they're reinventing it.

 

[hookbill]

This looks perfect for me. I tried swype and it was a total #fail for me. I did the tutorial and really gave it a chance but I just couldn't get it to work. Hope they have it out soon, don't see any links yet.