Aim: Produce a script that automatically computes spaces between words. Utilise bigram frequency for higher accuracy.
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Spacebarless Typing
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It doesn't feel to me that the space bar is that blocking.
I wonder if it would be more productive to have something like auto-captilisation following a full-stop.
Shifting and reaching the number row, is my biggest bug-bear. And I'm not the biggest fan of the backspace and other punctuation either.
(Off-topic but I have a rubber dome keyboard with a split space bar, left hand side is backspace right hand side is normal space. That is quite nice.)
Are you trying to free the thumbs for other tasks?
Or something more radical like ripping the bar out of your keyboard?
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Just an experiment to see if we can do it and how accurate we can get it.
Asutype is a Windows software that can do auto-capitalisation following a full-stop (it also does autocorrect very well). There's also a PhraseExpress pxp that you can download for auto-capitalisation after full-stop.
I have backspace assigned to semicolon in PhraseExpress, and instead of backspace a letter it backspaces the whole word.
Which rubber dome is that you have with the split spacebar?
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I can't find the keyboard right now.
It is like this only not so ugly and a little more compaqt:
I used to love it until I started to touch type, it never felt quite right again.
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I'd be curious to try out spacebarless typing. I know for me that it actually is a time consuming process and I'm sure with better (or no spacebar) I would be at least 5-15 wpm quicker. If the program also works for macs I'd definitely try it.
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I think there are really too many situations to take into account to really perfect something like this for universal use, but I'm interested in seeing any progress made. I'm personally using space to expand shorthand. I've found auto-capitalization to be a hindrance for anything outside the context of sentence only typing. As for split spacebars, I'm using a Japanese rubber dome keyboard for the extra thumb keys:
On a normal keyboard, I'm using caps+w for control+backspace (delete entire word) since I don't have a better location for a single key.
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Yeah, I use spacebar to expand shorthand as well. I'm thinking of buying a Japanese keyboard as well (probably an Apple Wireless one).
I have backspace word currently assigned to semicolon but I'll probably move that to one of the thumb keys, and the other thumb key for backspace letter. Or an alternate expander. E.g. "t" with space expands to "the", "t" with Henkan expands to "to". Or the Henkan key could do a space without triggering expansion. That would solve jsmithy's problem.
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I don't think that I could use two keys for expansion; it would get confusing.
As for how such a script would work, I assume that it would have to insert spaces in retrospect or fix them (both might be visually annoying, especially the latter) based on a dictionary.
Otherwise, there is the problem of sending spaces before a word is complete:
"tall erthana..."
The solution is to confirm multiple word occurrences before entering the space like so:
"tallerthana"
So at this point in the typing, assuming there was no word in the dictionary starting with "thana" or "erth.." this would become
"taller thana"
With shorthand this would get even more confusing and prevent usage of some things like "t" to "the" without some intelligent feature that could tell when t was "the" as opposed to part of another word.
Think of something like this: "torah"
Now we need a lot of confirmed words. Is this "the or a (word that starts with h)"?; is it "to (word that starts with rah)"?
An interesting idea but probably pretty complicated.
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Yeah, it probably wouldn't really work with shorthand.
With regard to using multiple keys for expansion, I think Proword does something like that. He uses a Maltron keyboard though. He explains it on his blog.
The script wouldn't necessarily need to be realtime although that would be cool. You could write out what you wanted first, highlight the text and have it processed by the script.
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