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Nokia Custom Dictionary for predictive text
Published by Steve Litchfield at 8:38 UTC, February 1st 2010
Nokia Beta Labs has debuted a utility for both S60 3rd Edition and 5th Edition phones to enable the editing of words in your phone's predictive text dictionary, a long-awaited function. You are also able to import and export the custom dictionary, meaning you can transfer it from one phone to another. There's a video to explain what's covered and links below.
From Beta Labs:
"We are pleased to publish Nokia Custom Dictionary on Beta Labs to share with the community and gather feedback. We designed this experimental application to address the wish that many S60 users have had: to be able to edit the list of words used by the phone for text prediction and transfer it between phones.
Nokia Custom Dictionary does exactly that, and we’ve also given you the chance to import words from a text file. This means you can quickly “teach” your phone commonly used words or even create specific word lists to be shared among a like-minded community, for example in the medical domain."
News Discussion
I noticed the T9 changed in the way it handled stuff between v11 and v20, and it didn't seem to re-learn words back out again no matter how many times you typed it afterwards. Might have been a ploy by Nokia though, as I now use the QWERTY keyboard more for texting.
Piece of REALLY useful advice for you however folks...
For many phones, including the N86, and N82, there is no option to DELETE a wrongly created wonky custom word.
I HAVE found a really easy way around this though to DELETE words you don't want (or at least it so far seems so...).
To DELETE a wrongly created custom word, in your word list, do the following...
- Click the middle button to select/highlight to word you want to delete.
- The word should now have it's characters all highlighted already. DO NOT deselect them.
EDIT:
SCRATCH my last..
If you get the message "Cannot Edit Words" on loading up, the changes do not get saved.
In other words, if you see this message on loading up the application, in effect, the application simply does not WORK for that model of phone.
USELESS then...
Waste of time for most handset owners, given how many phones this applies to. - Instead, just press the letter "a", to change the wrong word, to "a" instead, then click ok.
- And what it seems to have the effect of doing, is CHANGING your wrong word, to the letter, a, BUT then realising "a" already exists as a proper word, and thus dropping it from the Custom Dictionary.
The net result however, is DELETION fo your wrongly spelt word.
Don't ask me WHY with such a tool, we can't just go down and tick to select multiple words, and then choose DELETE, or even just have a delete option one by one.
Over to you, Nokia Beta Labs, for an answer, or to put in the next version please!
I haven't tried this on my N-series units but won't just pressing the C button also delete the selected word?
However, wanting to delete some words, I backed up my dictionary, removed the unwanted words using a text editor on my laptop, deleted the phone's copy of the current dictionary (delete c:\predic\*.dat), then imported my customised dictionary file. Happy days!
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