Apparatus and methods are disclosed for selection of characters from an electronic user interface. In one embodiment, a letter selection interface displays letters in a row, some of which are recordable by an input interpreter and others that are unrecordable. In one embodiment, unrecordable letters visually separate letters that are both (1) recordable, and (2) assigned to different but adjacent selection buttons. In response to received touch-screen activations, an interpreter records recordable letter selections and a display displays both recordable and unrecordable letter selections. The interpreter composes a sequence of the recorded letters. An algorithm identifies alternatives to the recorded sequence by editing one or more letters of the sequence, such that each edit changes a selected letter to an adjacent unrecordable letter. The algorithm outputs words that match the originally composed sequence or one of the identified alternatives.

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include presenting, via a user interface, a sensory cue, and receiving, from neuromuscular sensors of a wearable device, various neuromuscular signals generated by a user wearing the wearable device, where the user generates the neuromuscular signals in response to the sensory cue being presented to the user via the user interface. The method may also include interpreting the received neuromuscular signals as input commands with respect to the sensory cue provided by the user interface, such that the input commands initiate performance of specified tasks within the user interface. The method may also include performing the specified tasks within the user interface according to the interpreted input commands. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

A computer-implemented example generator is described which has a memory storing a text item, examples of use of the text item having been requested. A processor searches at least one n-gram language model to identify n-grams containing the text item. The processor is configured to rank the identified n-grams on the basis of a position of the text item in the identified n-grams; and a user interface presents at least some of the identified n-grams to a user taking into account the ranking.

A method and apparatus for selecting database items from a database, where the database items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text. An initial display is generated which includes one or more parts of the item identifiers. Selection of the one or more parts may be made and results in the generation of a display of a further one or more parts for selection. The further one or more parts may be selected in order to add to the selected one or more parts to build a larger part or whole of an item identifier. Selection from a large list of item identifiers may be carried out in a relatively short time period.

At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, display a message transcript, where the message transcript includes at least one message from at least a first user. Determine, based at least in-part on the at least one message, a plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display, on the touch-sensitive display, the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Detect an input on the touch-sensitive display. Determine whether the input represents user selection of one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display the selected one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters in the message transcript. Send the selected one or more characters to the first user.

In some examples, a computing device includes at least one processor; and at least one module, operable by the at least one processor to: output, for display at an output device, a graphical keyboard; receive an indication of a gesture detected at a location of a presence-sensitive input device, wherein the location of the presence-sensitive input device corresponds to a location of the output device that outputs the graphical keyboard; determine, based on at least one spatial feature of the gesture that is processed by the computing device using a neural network, at least one character string, wherein the at least one spatial feature indicates at least one physical property of the gesture; and output, for display at the output device, based at least in part on the processing of the at least one spatial feature of the gesture using the neural network, the at least one character string.

A method and a system for ranking candidates in an input method are provided. The method comprises: receiving an initial key code string inputted by a user using an input method; for each character in the initial key code string, obtaining a weight of the character and weights of characters surrounding the character, and establishing a key code string weight list with a corresponding hierarchy according to a character input order. The method further comprises: when character combinations are obtained from a dictionary, according to a correspondence relationship between a hierarchy in the input method dictionary and the hierarchy in the key code string weight list, determining weights of the character combinations using the key code string weight list; and based on the weights of the character combinations, ranking candidates corresponding to the character combinations.

A system comprising: one or more processors; and program instructions for providing a user interface. Execution of the program instructions by the one or more processors causes the one or more processors to display a user interface comprising: an entry mechanism for entering an input comprising at least one character, symbol, numeral or punctuation mark; a typing pane configured to display the input entered via the entry mechanism; wherein, in response to selection of a prediction based on the input entered via the entry mechanism, the typing pane is configured to replace the input entered via the entry mechanism by the prediction; and an undo button, wherein in response to user selection of the undo button, the typing pane is configured to replace the selected prediction by the input entered via the entry mechanism.

The present disclosure relates to a method for displaying a keyboard toolbar, a device for displaying a keyboard toolbar and a storage medium. The method for displaying the keyboard toolbar is applied to a terminal having a display screen and being connected with an external physical keyboard, and includes: determining, in response to detecting a calling instruction from the external physical keyboard for triggering display of the keyboard toolbar on the display screen of the terminal, the keyboard toolbar displayed on the display screen, the keyboard toolbar including a plurality of partitions and different partitions being configured to display different toolbars; and displaying the keyboard toolbar with the plurality of partitions in a resident manner on the display screen of the terminal.

A text language type switching method and apparatus, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving a typing input of a user; displaying a first text segment in response to the typing input; receiving a first input of the user; determining a to-be-switched text segment of a first language type from the first text segment in response to the first input; receiving a second input of the user; and switching the to-be-switched text segment to a target text segment of a second language type in response to the second input.