No doubt, the keypad AI is supposed to be a smartphone users' best friend, but how it has and is still striving to be an enemy is this part of the world is disturbing. Its advent and evolution has been pretty amazing, fine the T9 mode to what it has become today. If you are not so blessed to grace the 3310, the 2210, the Sagems, Sendos and Birds of this world, you might not really understand the T9 (text on 9 keys) prediction mode.

For natural born typists, the auto correct could be a nightmare, particularly when there's so much to let out through finger tips. That, I believe, is supposed to be one of the major objectives of the keypad AI, to help string words easier and faster.

Why the sudden rant on an innocent software that is meant to correct me blunders It has landed me into troubles more than it has helped. I could remember several years back during a chat, I innocently started a conversation with a very good friend, only for her to send me 'madman ke' when I meant to refer to her as 'madam'. Quite unbelievable, I must say, but I found myself apologizing for some minutes. Perhaps the auto correct was asleep at the time and just suggested whatever.

On Official notes, I have seen myself apologize countless number of times over misspellings of names just because the auto correct tries to make a point - 'I know more than you do. That is why I'm here'. That moment when someone sends you a message via a real time messenger and you harmlessly mean to respond and go 'Good afternoon, Mr Monsoon' (and then you tap send without realizing Mr NONSO has been transformed to Mr MONSOON ) and then you have to start looking for a way to undo the damage as you keep murmuring 'chai' to yourself. This is true story though. Unfortunately, those on the other end don't realize what one faces, even in the midst of the many apologies.

I could go on and on in painting rib cracking scenarios but it would not change the fact that the auto correct is all that help to those of us who hate inflectional words which are often termed 'informal' in formal settings. While some would come to say the auto correct is designed for English words and common words, and not Nigerian languages, it would amuse you that the auto correct could lead one to a point of no return if one allows it to lead. I have a huge apology to tender at the office after auto correct did its thing again yesternight. Fortunately, it's a colleague, it still does not take out the fact that the keypad AI isn't all that intelligent.

I guess I might just have to show this to my colleague later on to prove my innocence and to show my apology is indeed genuine over an epic auto correct fail.

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I honestly don't understand. Imagine using your own hands to punch a word on the virtual keypad and auto correct would relegate your words to tell you what you typed is isn't correct. After several months or years of using the phone, auto correct still fails to study patterns of words you type the most or use almost everyday.

Guy you are definitely right it remind me when I got my first android phone by then it could send nonsense to anybody even my relatives

emeraldknytt:
Nothing is really stopping anyone from disabling the autocorrect feature on one's phone. If anyone wants to use it, you can simply Input your most frequently used word in order not to be a victim of the autocorrect plague. I recommend swiftkey keyboard any day, some claim it lags (Never experience that before), but it's still one of the best out there.

Swiftkey Keyboard is no different. Swiftkey, TouchPal, etc, are just keyboarding styles which gives you the same auto correcting features as the one pre-installed in your phone. Is that what you're using now, by the way?

Gameguy900:
Guy you are definitely right it remind me when I got my first android phone by then it could send nonsense to anybody even my relatives

Funny... I hope these developers would become wiser to write auto correct softwares that are capable of studying your own words, how you write then and then give exact or same suggestions instead of what we have now.

The granny own got me ROTLMAO

Lol.... I can't forget July when my keyboard did auto-correct when talking to a client.....

want to write his name which is Blaissy, my keyboard changed it to Nemesis..... I just noticed he didn't reply again, I just have to read my message again and saw my mistake.... I can't just cry that day. Tried writing him again to tell him about the mistake, he said he already gave the job to another person.

Lost $200 job cos of auto-correct.

I jux dey waka pass

That's true. I have fallen severs times

lol

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It almost got me in trouble with my supervisor last month

" GRANDMA IS IN THE GRAVE "

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Autocorrect can go to he'll.

SwiftKey comes with the best auto correct. I love it, even though it messes up sometimes.

Auto-corret is mostly good at something... [size=15pt]embarrassing the hell out of you[/size]

Swiftkey is cool

I guess mine have a crush on lalasticlala, the thing sabi the dude name. I no need type before the thing go show...
lalasticlala lalasticlala lalasticlala lalasticlala...

Cutesexy1:
Swiftkey is cool

serious, swiftkey is very very very very very cooooooooooooooooooooooool

lolll

TouchPal na problem sef

I'd forgive if it "corrects" non-English words to English but replacing an English word with another inappropriate English world is just unforgivable!
I remember the most annoying one I typed "Love" and it replaced it with something stupid! I was furious that day!

Auto correct make one look foolish after........ I had to take my time to change the settings.

Haaaa op, I can relate

I correct auto-correct more than auto-correct corrects me......

O boy, SwiftKey helps me in filling online forms like die. I only have to double check. With chats you know when you have to double check. Every software is garbage in garbage out and AI can kill you. Lol...