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Re:Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method by samstokes on Thursday August 23, 2012 @04:06PM (#4424539)
This is pretty much how the stock Android keyboard works. It's been able to spot missed keys since at least Ice Cream Sandwich - e.g. I just typed "kettrt" and it's suggesting "letter" as a correction. Since Jelly Bean it's also had some bigram support too (guesses the next word based on the previous without you typing anything).

Aside from the "typing without a keyboard" part, it's not obvious from the video how Fleksy differs from this, but the focus on blind users probably makes a difference.

Re:Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method by 3JPLW on Thursday August 23, 2012 @09:59PM (#4425852)
But does Android use context clues? iOS can't quite handle the two-letter distance, but it accurately corrects "kryywt" (kryuwt is too far away) without any context.
Re:Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method by jenius on Monday August 27, 2012 @10:31AM (#4438953)
ah, i forgot about bigrams - that's a really great idea. I wonder if it's packing a huge machine learning library though... wouldn't that take a ton of space? I saw in another comment that it takes a while to start up - maybe that's why