A texting tool for your location search

KeyPoint Technologies, a user-interface products company is loaded with a location-based word suggestion feature

People often experience the issue of not being able to type quite complicated names of cities like Thiruvananthapuram, towns like Mahendravadi and locations such as Gachibowli whenever they travel to new places.

As a solution to this pain-point, KeyPoint Technologies, a UK-based user-interface products company with its development centre in Hyderabad, has launched globally Adaptxt 3.0, the new version of its flagship text input prediction application Adaptxt, for Android-based mobile devices.

Loaded with a location-based word suggestion feature, which it claims to be the industry-first, the tool detects users’ location and suggests words based on their current location. With this feature, users can define up to three preferred locations on the Adaptxt settings, or let the automatic location detection technology to detect their position.

“The new version is currently available on a 30-day free trial, and costs Rs 99 to unlock for life-time usage. We expect Adaptxt 3.0 to cross a million downloads on the Google Play Store in the first year, with 30 per cent of them upgrading to the premium version,” Sumit Goswami, chief executive officer of KeyPoint, told Business Standard.

Adaptxt 3.0 also offers an application-based feature, which provides word suggestions according to the user’s writing and texting style and habits.

“It has the ability to detect whether the user is having a casual conversation using an instant messenger like WhatsApp or drafting something formal in an official mail, and tailor its word suggestions accordingly,” he said, adding that the company would release the app on the iOS platform once Apple opened up its input framework.

KeyPoint had recently launched Wink It, the country’s first emoticon and image prediction keyboard for the Android platform. The keyboard predicts emoticons as users start typing the words and suggests multiple output options. “Our ultimate goal is to merge Wink It with Adaptxt. The merged product will be out in the market by the next quarter,” Goswami said.