Volkmar Kobelt
TypeHelp
This Adaptive Predictive Typing Assistant learns contexts automatically and suggests text continuations.
"VK TypeHelp is magically useful software. It will suite mystical needs for those of us who often works with “typical” texts, the texts where the same phrases and words arise again, and again, and again, so you type them and sigh “what a pity, nobody can automate this!” Now you can be aware: somebody CAN." Read the full review by the editors of 3D2F.COM
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This PC program serves writers with repeated keyboard input especially of text, and in recovering lost pieces of text. It is of special value for input of formal language text (e.g. HTML), filling in forms, and in technical and commercial writing. It can serve as an aid for slow typists and for persons with limited typing ability. VK TypeHelp might also be seen as an aid for editing text in a given context.
Think of an assistant of the writer, sitting beside him and observing the sequence of his keystrokes. (Or reading a piece of text from the clipboard.) Then, after getting some experience, the assistant will predict and suggest reasonable continuations of the user's text input according to former occurrences of the context. Whenever the user accepts one of the suggestions, the assistant will input it, in place of the user.
The user selects, extends, shortens, or accepts a suggestion by simple keystrokes.
In contrast to known auto text or text completion tools, this
program does neither need explicit decisions and input of text in
advance for future utilization by the user, nor does the suggestion explicitly depend on
word or field content boundaries.
The screenshot clip shows TypeHelp's suggestions, in an early stage of learning, together with an editor the user is working with. The assistant will memorize keystrokes independently of the application program being active. (The example assistant did not get much English text to read.)
VK TypeHelp runs on Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP. It requires a usual PC keyboard with numeric keypad (on the right) which can be set (by the Num toggle key) to cursor movement functions, in addition to the cursor keys nearby, so that we can use it for sending simple commands to the assistant.
The program cooperates with customary text processing programs and text editors, or other computer programs like e.g. a command interpreter. Please test with the free trial version its cooperation with any special program. Any hint is much appreciated.