Multilingual Typing

[Kerim Friedman]

Announcements for iOS 10 today included something called "multilingual typing" which promises the ability to type in two languages without switching keyboards. Does anyone know any more details about this and how it will work?

Kerim

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P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

Associate Professor

The Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures

College of Indigenous Studies

National DongHwa University, TAIWAN

副教授國立東華大學族群關係與文化學系

[Magnus Lewan]

It was mentioned in the context of Siri, apparently, but I don't know how that would work. 

I would hope that multilingual typing meant that iOS realises when you start typing in another language, comme français par example, and that it doesn't change those words to English (or whatever the keyboard is set to). But that may be wishful thinking. 

M

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[Kerim Friedman]

Siri language switching is a separate feature that was also announced. I was referring to something announced with the "quicktype keyboard" whatever that is.

K

[Kerim Friedman]

Hmmm. This video suggests that it is part of Siri's integration into the keyboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNSaUp1ZCA4

It implies that it will detect that you are typing in a different language and switch. I can see that working well with European languages (offering up different suggestions after detecting Spanish or French words), but not clear to me that this would work with Chinese where the whole input method is different?

K

K

[Tom Gewecke]

It implies that it will detect that you are typing in a different language and switch. I can see that working well with European languages (offering up different suggestions after detecting Spanish or French words), but not clear to me that this would work with Chinese where the whole input method is different?

It is probably like the “automatic” setting in MacOS where you can supposedly get multilingual spellcheck/autocorrect.  Still, as you say, you would have to switch keyboards for non-Latin scripts.  In MacOS the keyboard doesn’t determine spellcheck in any case, that’s a “feature” of iOS.