Inscribe - Free on screen keyboard with character sweep feature.
The Ilium Software InScribe application that has been in beta test for the UMPC is now available. For Free! Inscribe is an on-screen keyboard with wings. It adds a stylus-slide function which allows you to sweep over the letters of a word. When you remove your stylus a space is added. I’ve been using it for a few hours and for certain words (3-5 letters are best) its really really quick. After practice I expect it to be even quicker. Accuracy is not 100% but for IM I find that it doesn’t matter. Under Word you might be able to enable auto-correction to achieve a higher rate of accuracy. I haven’t tried this yet though.
I’m hoping the Illium start to look at adding some AI into the program. By using grammatical and spelling rules, accuracy and speed could really be improved.
However, it beats the keyboard I’m using on the Vega at the moment so I’m happy to move over to it even as a tap-and-lift keyboard.
Steve / Chippy
