10-31-2006, 06:21 AM
10-31-2006, 12:53 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_%28predictive_text%29
I love it, personally. My phone can do this in Spanish and English (maybe French & Portuguese, too? But I didn't need to use those yet). I used to use the Spanish all the time until my husband started getting serious about improving his English faster; now we use English for texting. It's good for when I want to call him but he's in the library.
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Tracy (username?) from this site was talking in chat about possibilities of those auties with speech and auditory processing difficulties being able to use the fancier cellphones instead of communicator devices, becos some of them can do more and tend to be cheaper and more portable than the machines designed specifically as assistive technology. Some can even run a voice-synth software. I think it's a great idea.
Except some people are pretty hard on their machines due to dyspraxia or motor control problems (etc.) and would have difficulty maintaining delicate devices (That would be my problem, too! I need a cellphone that can survive being dropped downstairs and on concrete sidewalks multiple times. I know this becos this happens to every cellphone I have ever owned. I end up always buying the solidest one that has all the features I want).
This blogger was talking about a similar cellphone idea, too:
http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/read-my-clips/
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I love it, personally. My phone can do this in Spanish and English (maybe French & Portuguese, too? But I didn't need to use those yet). I used to use the Spanish all the time until my husband started getting serious about improving his English faster; now we use English for texting. It's good for when I want to call him but he's in the library.
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Tracy (username?) from this site was talking in chat about possibilities of those auties with speech and auditory processing difficulties being able to use the fancier cellphones instead of communicator devices, becos some of them can do more and tend to be cheaper and more portable than the machines designed specifically as assistive technology. Some can even run a voice-synth software. I think it's a great idea.
Except some people are pretty hard on their machines due to dyspraxia or motor control problems (etc.) and would have difficulty maintaining delicate devices (That would be my problem, too! I need a cellphone that can survive being dropped downstairs and on concrete sidewalks multiple times. I know this becos this happens to every cellphone I have ever owned. I end up always buying the solidest one that has all the features I want).
This blogger was talking about a similar cellphone idea, too:
http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/read-my-clips/
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11-03-2006, 05:41 AM
Natalia Wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_%28predictive_text%29
I love it, personally. My phone can do this in Spanish and English (maybe French & Portuguese, too? But I didn't need to use those yet). I used to use the Spanish all the time until my husband started getting serious about improving his English faster; now we use English for texting. It's good for when I want to call him but he's in the library.
I love it, personally. My phone can do this in Spanish and English (maybe French & Portuguese, too? But I didn't need to use those yet). I used to use the Spanish all the time until my husband started getting serious about improving his English faster; now we use English for texting. It's good for when I want to call him but he's in the library.
Oh i see... thanks for the link. I also saw a tutorial about predictive texting which I really loved. I didn't know that it was that easy.
http://www.t9.com/learn
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