You had me at enhanced autocorrect. Huzzah!
As described, the method would afford a smartphone user the opportunity to write a message, press send, then review any autocorrected words before the message is actually transmitted. Compared to current techniques, which only allow users the chance to change autocorrected words prior to hitting send, the system gives a type of second chance if activated.
Gmail on my Mac has an Undo extension that delays all email sends for a configurable number of seconds. I’ve been using this for years. Wonder if the Apple patent precedes Google Undo or if there is some functional difference in the Apple patent that I’m missing (which is likely the case).
That said, enhanced autocorrect and automatic language selection for me, please.
From the description you quoted, it sounds like they’re just marking all the autocorrected words for you to review.
They should use the automatic language selection for TTS. I’m so annoyed when I have my mac read something to me and it reads it in english when the text is german or the other way round. That can’t be too difficult if, especially given they can detect the language you’re writing before your first sentence is finished.
Every part of this is cool, except the part where they’re patenting it 🙂
The Palm Pre had something like this. It would point out autocorrected words, so you could power through writing the text, then go back and review the corrections.
Once again, yay for patents.