Paralyzed Man Uses Brain Implant to Type Eight Words per Minute

Re:Paralyzed Man Uses Brain Implant to Type Eight Words per ... by inlineint on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @08:19AM (#13705208)

It seems that something like entropy-based helpers that predict probabilities of next letters and make those letters large could increase input speed. One of the first examples of such helper was done in David McKay lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software) .

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Re:Paralyzed Man Uses Brain Implant to Type Eight Words per ... by monsieurbanana on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:00AM (#13706458)

Nowadays everybody has something akin in their pockets: a smartphone keyboard.

Or at least KeySwift (but pretty sure stock android and ios have the same feature) does it:

Instead of having to press a specific letter, you can miss and press another close letter. For exemple if I want to write "hello" but I type instead "hekki" it correctly proposes "hello" as correction.

Same for "trsnskstd" and "translate", "ajithdr" and "another".

So instead of having 26 letters to press, you could make for example 6 groups of 4-5 letters, and let the computer decide which word you wanted to type.

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Re:Paralyzed Man Uses Brain Implant to Type Eight Words per ... by jackmott on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @08:33AM (#13705308)

I am glad I am not the only one thinking "Not fast enough! We need to add more speed!"

Stuff like this is amazing though.

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