Google Launches Text Auto-Completion Tool Scribe : - Google Scribe - a tool which auto-completes words and sentences as you type them, The technology however has many applications for mobile devices, smartphones, tablets and so on.
Google Scribe is a new Google Labs project that offers keyword suggestions in an open text box, as you type. It is not the Google search box, it is a standalone text entry box for auto word completion suggestions.
"Google Scribe provides text completion service. Using information from what you have already typed in a document, Google Scribe provides related word or phrase completion suggestions. In addition to saving keystrokes, Google Scribe's suggestions indicate correct or popular phrases to use," the tool's help page reads.
In practice, the tool works surprisingly well. Just start typing and, in most cases, Scribe will suggest the words you were going to write. The tool only
supports English for now, but there are probably plans to include other languages.
The Google Scribe editor hosted by Labs has some options, you can choose to always show suggestions or just when you press the tab key. It also works with several keyboard shortcuts.
But Google also offers a bookmarklet which could prove a lot more useful. It enables you to use Scribe with email clients, blogging tools and, basically, with any other text input box on the web.
Scribe is powered by technologies similar to Google Translate and the search suggestion box. By using statistical analysis of large bodies of text, Scribe can predict what are the most likely words that follow a certain combination.
Google Translate uses the same method to provide the most likely translation for a word or sentence.
You can access Google Scribe at http://scribe.googlelabs.com/
