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Ben Medlock: Touchscreen typing is an inference problem, not a mechanical one
“This is a virtual keyboard, and the problem of typing was now not a mechanical problem. It's an inference problem, and that means that there is a degree of uncertainty.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 6:40 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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Medlock: N-gram models are extremely hard to beat in voice recognition
“If you've done anything in voice recognition, you will know that it's really, really hard to beat Ngram models.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 11:10 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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Medlock: Neural network language models are a highly promising research avenue
“Another possibility is to move away from engrams and towards neural network-based language models, which is a really promising, ah, avenue of research at the moment.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 11:49 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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Medlock: Online profiles offer the best seed for personal predictive text models
“To get a really strong predictive model, you need to know how an individual user uses language, and online profiles give you an ideal way of getting a seed for this.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 12:51 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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