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eZiText Technology
By Daniel
Cheung |
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 Zi Corporation, a leading provider of embedded software solutions, has come
up with an intuitive eZiText solution that enables fast and easy text input,
connecting people in their native language to powerful web and mobile phone
applications.
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Mobile Phone Input Flash Demo
www.zicorp.com |
What is eZiText?
eZiText is an intuitive language input tool which makes communication and
information devices simpler and faster to use. It consists of the Zi Core
Engine in conjunction with dynamic linguistic databases. Together, these
technologies enhance language entry by predicting words and phrases as people
compose them. In other words, it is yet another method of inputting text
with as little key-hits as possible - which is very good news to all the SMS
freaks out in mobile-land.
Benefits
Fast:
eZiText is a predictive solution. It enables the completion of whole
words with only one tap or less per letter. An average of only 4 keys are
required to complete English words. Other input methods need 7 hits and
standard multi-tap needs 14.
Easy:
eZiText is designed to allow intuitive input in a way people find
natural. it guides the user to intended words without the inclusion of
confusing non-sensical word candidates. Zi adapts the intrinsic logic of
each script to any device, resulting in a user interface and input process which
is easy to use and learn: even for complex languages like Japanese and Chinese.
Scalable:
Zi's core engine is independent from its' language databases. This
allows the addition of languages and capabilities while optimizing memory
requirements.
Languages:
eZiText is offered for the following languages:
| Arabic |
Finnish |
Norwegian |
| Bahasa
Indonesian |
French |
Polish |
| Chinese,
Simplified |
German |
Portuguese |
| Chinese,
Traditional |
Greek |
Romanian |
| Czech |
Hebrew |
Slovak |
| Danish |
Italian |
Spanish |
| Dutch |
Japanese |
Swedish |
| English |
Korean |
Turkish |
eZiText for the Mobile Phones
eZiText has great benefits for the world of mobile phone technology.
Imagine all the text based functions that you utilize on your mobile phone -
text messaging, emails, web-browsing, storing and retrieving data, m-commerce
transactions and so on ...
Example - Writing a Short Message
SMS messaging is a popular and often cheaper way to stay in touch. It
has always been a nuisance to compose messages on the reduced keypad of the
mobile phone. With eZiText, as users tap one key press per letter, eZiText
narrows down to the desired word candidates. Simultaneously, several of
the most appropriate woed candidates are predicted and offered for
selection.
For instance, the word 'tomorrow' in the sentence 'see you tomorrow' has 8
letters. it only requires 4 key presses (the keys 8, 6, 6, 6) before it is
brought up as the most probable candidate.
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