Clever Texting
CleverTexting is a new texting technology that offers a solution with an entirely new usability. In this the phone estimates the limited possible characters that the user could be writing next and shows them on the screen. This allows the user to choose from amongst the predicted characters using a single keypress or directly from the screen in case of a touchscreen device. The predictions of CleverTexting are very accurate because they have been derived from statistical mining of the particular languages in terms of probabilities of letter combinations that actually occurred in large texts called corpora. In 90% of cases, the predictions of CleverTexting turn out to be accurate irrespective of the language which is the key demonstrated power of the technology.
The CleverTexting concept is applicable for every language of the world. All the languages of the world analyzed by us show a statistical correlation which will lend themselves to efficient statistical predictions. The technologies have already been developed for English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, Swahili, Finnish and are popular downloads all over the world as awareness of this new usability is spreading. The technologies are also being developed for all the other languages of the world including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The approach of CleverTexting is very productive because it is not a rule based approach and requires no linguistic support to build the product. The process of building being automated allows for the development of this technology for all the micro languages of the world. No other technology, particularly dictionary based approaches can allow for this.
Panini Keypad
The Panini Keypad is the brand name of the family of products for Indian languages. It is named in the honour of the famous Sanskrit grammarian who lived 2500 years ago. The Panini Keypad family of products offers CleverTexting for the following Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi and Assamese as well as a few extra features. This includes integrated support for all the Indian languages and inter-conversion via transliteration.
The Panini Keypad is fully developed and has been released to the public domain since Jan 2009. It was the winner of the Judges Choice award at the NOKIA Global Mobile Innovation contest where it was called a Mobile Necessity for Emerging Markets.
SMS Compression
The technologies developed also include support for SMS compression for the first time in the world. This uses a variable bit encoding called static Huffman coding which could be obtained from the statistical information of languages because all characters do not occur equally frequently in languages. Frequently occurring characters are encoded in fewer bits and rarely occurring characters are encoded in larger bits. The average number of bits per character works to about 5 bits per character which offers 300% improvement for non Latin languages which uses Unicode and about 150% improvement for Latin languages.
Panini Transliteration
The Panini Keypad is an integrated platform supporting all the Indian languages, so it is possible to transliterate between the 11 languages supported. One can write in Bengali and send in Telugu and receive a message in Gujarati and read it in Malayalam. The Panini Keypad also includes transliteration to the Roman script for phones overseas with no Indian language support.
