Scots input for smartphones
The world’s first Scots-speaking predictive text keyboard is available from Swiftkey.
Examples of current and historical Scots texts for the SwiftKey team after being contacted by the developers. This includes material from The National, Bella Caledonia, Robert Burns and even Facebook, as well as content from the new edition of the Concise Scots Dictionary, published this month.
The system uses artificial intelligence (AI) to adapt to the user’s writing style to recognise, autocorrect and autopredict Scots and is capable of running between both Scots and English at once.
Dr Rhona Alcorn of Scottish Language Dictionaries commented: “This is a validation of a living, thriving language.”
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