SpeedScript AG Apps
SpeedScript keyboard free 1.0
intelligent writing system for smart phonesand tabletssimple and efficientprivacy-friendly and non-interferingIn 1996, Raphael Bachmann falls in love with the potential of thetouchscreen, and buys an Apple Newton.Spurred on by the limitations of the device’s text input, Raphaeldevelops SpeedScript, a user-friendly keyboard app optimized fortouchscreens.SpeedScript does without autocorrect and autocomplete.Write how you think without annoying outside interference.SpeedScript protects your privacy.The app doesn’t read or save your data.Autocorrect? Autocomplete? No thanks!Apart from being efficient and easy to use, SpeedScript sparesusers the annoying and sometimes embarrassing help given byautocorrect and autocomplete systems. And by concentrating entirelyon ergonomic and linguistic optimization it avoids the sinisterprivacy issues of text entry systems that trawl the cloud and theuser’s smartphone to achieve a usable recognition rate.The paid SpeedScript app does not need any permissions at all.The free version accesses advertising networks and requiresacceptance of carefully delimited permissions, but SpeedScript doesnot read or store any information, including information providedin connection with the advertising (which comes from ad networkbundler AddApptr). This makes SpeedScript the obvious choice forusers who value their privacy and want to limit their exposure tothe dark side of the cloud.How does SpeedScript make text entry quicker and moreefficient?SpeedScript strikes the golden mean by combining writing andtyping on a touchscreen. In any language, vowels and spaces accountfor around half of all characters used. According to SpeedScriptlogic, it must be possible to write these frequent charactersquickly and easily without having to search for the right key andmove the finger too far.So SpeedScript enables you to write strokes in eight differentdirections from any character key on the keyboard: a stroke to theleft produces an “a,” a stroke downward an “i,” a stroke to theright a “u,” and so on.Starting from the blue key you can write single vowels and a singlespace.SpeedScript also gives direct access to symbols like ' " [ ] { }< > % # & ~ ^ º ² ³,and to special functions such as page up, page down, home, end,cut, copy and paste, and arrows for navigation in the text.The symbols and functions are grouped together thematically:punctuation, mathematical symbols, parentheses, smileys, currencysymbols, navigation in the text, and even cut, copy, and paste.SpeedScript’s compact and efficient QWERTY designSpeedScript uses a QWERTY layout without the keys for vowels. Ina standard QWERTY layout, most of the vowels are near the edge.SpeedScript takes advantage of this to compress the QWERTY keyboardwithout losing its familiar layout. The remaining keys are stillpositioned in almost the same positions relative to each other.The SpeedScript QWERTY design has only 22 keys instead of 27,giving a better overview and making it easier to locate the desiredkey. Because of the reduced number of keys, the keyboard is eightrather than ten keys wide. This makes a big difference: the keysare 56% bigger, which makes it a lot easier to hit the target key.Usability tests have shown that people can find and hit keys fasterusing the compact SpeedScript layout than with the standard QWERTYlayout.
