T9 Improvements

It’s just 1am over here, and for some insane reason I’m really sleepy. But I was messaging a friend (SMS not email) and it got me thinking. I love T9. Yea, that’s right T9 - predictive text. It’s just amazing. I’m one of those people who doesn’t like the SMS lingo, and prefers to type full words and sentences instead of abbreviations and word fragments! (Yea - the whole short part of SMSs are wasted on me!)

Anyway it got me thinking, that even though T9 is great. It’s really old and I think with the kind of phones we have now-days(processing power) implementing a couple of advancements should take up too much of the processors speed. I think. Here are some improvements which might be useful to freaks like me -

• **Custom Word Capitalization -** When I add a custom word to my dictionary, I can choose if I always want it to be Capitalized. This would be really useful as most of the time I'm adding names of people and places.
• **Letter 'I' Capitalization -** When the letter 'i' exists on it's own. It gets capitalized.
• **Spell Checker **- Sometimes I don't know the exact spelling of a word, and when I start to type it incorrectly, my phone makes a loud beep to indicate that no such word exists. Maybe it should do a spell check on what I was typing and suggest a word. This would be kinda hard to implement.
• **Google Wave Spell checker suggester - **A couple of months back, when I first saw the 'Google Wave' video what really impressed me was it's spell checker. It automatically identified the difference between 'been' and 'bean' based on it's usage. I think something like this could be done to make the T9 suggest words based on what you're typing instead of the it's conventional statistical technique.