Your phone knows what you are about to say...

The article discusses an attempt to improve predictive texting and voice recognition software in smartphones with crowdsourcing techniques. Researchers Keith Vertanen and Per Ola Kristensson hired workers to postulate useful phrases for motor neuron disease or cerebral palsy patients. Terms taken from online social media sites were added to the database to create statistical language models to help Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices anticipate words and reduce keystrokes.