Nuance Communications extended its association with LG Electronics by shipping its T9 and XT9 predictive text input products for LG’s modern and growing portfolio of mobile phones. T9 and XT9 are predictive text software applications that would make sending and typing text messages and emails trouble-free. In addition users can quickly type URLs using standard and touch screen 12-key and QWERTY keypads.
With this agreement LG provides Nuance’s T9 and XT9 to a wider base of customers across the globe. T9 and XT9 services can be availed over a broad spectrum of devices comprising of lower end feature phones to high end smart phones. The company provides an extensive language support of over 80 languages and dialects worldwide which include Chinese PTI (Phrasal Text Input) and SBI (Sentence Based Input), and Indic languages such as Hinglish. This would help LG provide an impetus to the expansion of predictive text services in budding mobile markets like China and India.
Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile commented , “It’s not just about voice calls on phones today – being able to simply and intuitively send emails and text messages is just as important, which is why many of the world’s leading handset manufacturers rely on our T9 predictive text portfolio. LG has some of the hottest devices on the market and by leveraging T9 and XT9, users around the world will continue to leverage the power that our combined innovation delivers for texting and emailing – or any other text input command.”
T9 and XT9 permit users to explore umpteen messaging capabilities of the phone. Swapping between input modes and jockeying between numbers, letters, symbols and languages is made possible. This technology allows users to get rid of common misspellings that occur due to small hard and touchscreen QWERTY keyboards. It also permits users to enter URLs on phones comprising of HTML Web browser.
T9 and XT9 are the components of Nuance’s broad mobile portfolio. In synchronization with the Nuance’s speech, the predictive text seem to change the outlook of consumers towards sending text messages, emails, placing calls, and accessing the mobile Web for information, directions, music and much more.