Voice recognition is a standard part of the smartphone package these days, and a corresponding part is the delay while you wait for Siri, Alexa, or Google to return your query, either correctly interpreted or horribly mangled. Google’s latest speech recognition works entirely offline, eliminating that delay altogether — though of course mangling is still an option.
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Fleksy’s keyboard grabs $800k+ via equity crowdfunding
The dev team that’s now engineering the Fleksy keyboard app has raised more than $800,000 via an equity crowdfunding route. As we reported a year ago, the development of Fleksy’s keyboard has been taken over by the Barcelona-based startup behind an earlier keyboard app called ThingThing. The team says their new funding raise — described […]
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There’s no shortage of personalized stickers and avatars to choose from on your mobile device: Apple Memojis, Snapchat Bitmojis, and the list goes on and on.
Now, Google is launching its own version. Google’s Gboard (a keyboard extension for iOS and Android) is launching Minis, a sticker version of yourself with two distinct drawing styles.
The most diehard Google fans might remember selfie stickers in Allo, one of the company’s many different messaging apps. The new Google Gboard Minis are similar, however, they’re a little more customizable. Read more…
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View More Here’s how to set up Google Gboard’s ‘Mini’ stickersGoogle adds Morse code input to Gboard
Google is adding morse code input to its mobile keyboard. It’ll be available as a beta on Android later today. The company announced that new feature at Google I/O after showing a video of Tania Finlayson. Finlayson has been having a hard time communicating with other people due to her condition. She found a great […]
View More Google adds Morse code input to GboardGoogle buys Tenor, a.k.a. brand-friendly Giphy, to help you never type words again
Google has a new tagline, “Make Google do it,” and the tech giant’s latest acquisition may give us a better idea of what “it” could be.
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Google’s keyboard app Gboard now works in Chinese, Korean and more
Despite declining consumer interest in third-party keyboard apps, Google is continuing to develop Gboard, its alternative keyboard app for mobile devices. Today, it’s greatly expanding Gboard reach, with the addition of 20 more languages – including, notably, traditional and simplified Chinese as well as Korean. The new languages are arriving first on the Gboard app for Android.… Read More
Making GIFs just got way easier thanks to Google’s keyboard app
Finding and sending GIFs has never been easier, but GBoard’s latest update has taken things one step further.
If you’re an iOS user, the Google keyboard app now has a simplified way to create your own GIFs because the more looped images the wor…