双语新闻：智能手机输入法的未来

英语自学网

　　The Future of Typing
        　　In the future, your smartphone won't auto-correct your errors. It will correct them before they're even made.
        　　未来，智能手机不是在你出错后自动纠错，而是能在你还没犯错时就帮你更正错误。
        　　It will know you really meant to hit the 'K' key on your screen when you hit the 'L' key. Maybe even one day, there won't be a traditional keyboard at all, if some entrepreneurs have their way.
        　　当你敲击“L”键时，它会知道你其实是想敲击“K”键。如果一些创业者能获得成功，或许有一天，传统键盘将会彻底消失。
        　　While Google Inc. and Apple Inc. go after ways to make it easier to talk to your phone, a new fleet of scientists, startups and app developers are still attacking the problem of typing and input─perfecting how to understand what you want to type rather than what you literally typed.
        　　当谷歌(Google Inc.)、苹果公司(Apple Inc.)正设法简化手机语音输入的同时，也有另一群科学家、初创公司和应用程序开发者仍在努力解决打字和输入的问题──即精准理解你想要输入什么，而不是实际输入了什么。
        　　Google lets developers build heavily customized keyboards for smartphones running its Android mobile operating system. That has opened the floodgates for startups like SwiftKey, which builds a predictive Android keyboard that tries to anticipate what a user is trying to type, and Snapkeys, a futuristic-style keyboard that consists of only four keys, to remake the keyboard on Android smartphones.
        　　谷歌允许开发者为其运行安卓(Android)系统的智能手机打造高度个性化的键盘。此举为类似SwiftKey和Snapkeys这样的初创公司能重新打造安卓智能手机键盘打开了闸门。Swiftkey生产一种具有预测功能的安卓键盘，尝试预测用户试图键入的内容;而Snapkeys则制作一种未来主义风格的键盘，仅包含四个按键。
        　　Gesture-based typing and predictive typing has been around for some time─SwiftKey was founded in 2008, for example. But the technology behind it has become so sophisticated that it is now becoming a selling point as smartphone makers take on Apple's iPhone.
        　　基于手势的输入和预测输入已经出现了一段时间──比如SwiftKey就成立于2008年。当智能手机厂商多采用与iPhone手机类似的键盘设计之际，这类输入功能因其背后技术之复杂，正在成为一大新卖点。
        　　Case in point, Samsung Electronics Co.will include SwiftKey's predictive technology in the new Samsung Galaxy S 4, which will be unveiled at an event in New York on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
        　　举例而言，据消息人士透露，三星电子(Samsung Electronics Co.)在其新款三星Galaxy S 4手机中将运用SwiftKey的预测技术。三星公司将于近日在纽约举行活动，发布此款手机。
        　　'In the Android space where you have a lot of competition, a little thing like [predictive typing] can make a huge difference,' said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group.
        　　Enderle Group首席分析师罗布•恩德勒(Rob Enderle)称：“在安卓领域你要面临许多竞争，像‘预测输入’这样的小功能也能产生很大的影响。”
        　　This is more than a scientific question─it is a business one, too. Smartphone manufacturers want to reduce the time, or 'friction' needed to input data, as a way of freeing up users to do more browsing, buying, and watching.
        　　这不仅是个科学问题，同时也是个商业问题。智能手机生产商想减少输入数据所需要的时间或“摩擦”，让用户有时间浏览更多网页，进行更多网购，观看更多视频。
        　　Mr. Enderle said the use of the standard Qwerty keyboard on the iPhone made such an approach the industry standard. But that won't last long, he said.
        　　恩德勒说，由于iPhone使用了标准Qwerty键盘，而使该键盘成为行业标准。但这种状况不会持续很久。
        　　New-wave keyboards work to 'infer' what the user is trying to type. They use evidence collected about the user, like typing history on social networks, where they are on the Web, or what terms are trending on the Web to determine what word to select next.
        　　一批新型键盘设法“推测”用户试图键入的内容。它们运用所收集的用户相关证据，比如社交网络输入历史，网页浏览习惯或网络热词，来确定用户接下来要选择的词。