What's new in Predictable?

We recently released a new subversion of Predictable 6. What's new in version 6.0.18?

- Multi-Language capacity

You can now set up a second language to your Predictable account and quickly switch to it. Predictable now supports 27 secondary languages:

1. English

2. Arabic

3. Chinese

4. Czech

5. Danish

6. Dutch

7. Finnish

8. French

9. German

10. Greek

11. Hebrew

12. Hindi

13. Hungarian

14. Indonesian

15. Italian

16. Japanese

17. Korean

18. Norwegian

19. Polish

20. Portuguese

21. Romanian

22. Russian

23. Slovak

24. Spanish

25. Swedish

26. Thai

27. Turkish

To set up your secondary language, you would need to select your secondary voice, and keyboard and you even have the option to replace your existing Phrase Bank by the default one of your secondary language (watch the webinar to learn how to do so).

- Undo delete

The Delete last word and Delete all feature keys now become Undo buttons after you select them to make sure you don't need to retype your whole message again if you delete it by mistake!

- Adjusting the font size of the History strip, the Favourite strip, and the Keyboard keys

From Theme & Appearance > Color and Font Size

- Adjusting the number of predicted word to be displayed:

You can now choose to display 1, 2, or the maximum of predicted words!

- Deactivating the Grid View from the Phrase Bank

- Auditory feedback:

Activate the click sound from the Accessibility settings.

- Customising the keyboard feature keys.

Head tracking vs. Eye gaze technology

Predictable now offers 3 new features that rely on Apple Face ID advanced technology:

• Head Tracking

• Scan & Track

• Gesture Speak

These new features aim to offer alternative ways of interacting with Predictable if you cannot rely on direct touch.

What are the advantages of using Head tracking instead of eye gaze technology?

- Predictable Head Tracking doesn't require any additional hardware or calibration. It is already in-built in your iPad / iPhone

- As Apple Face ID technology recognises any human face with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, it allows many other ways of selecting keys on the screen (such as Mouth open, Tongue out, Cheek puff, etc.)

- It allows you to keep using your iPad as your assistive device, which is more socially accepted but also easier to carry compared to any other big hardware.

- Gesture Speak allows you to attach messages or actions to your different face gestures (e.g. you could have the message "Help me please" to be triggered every time you frown and the Speak button to be triggered every time you smile)

- Scan & Track allows you to combine different scanning and selective methods. If you cannot rely on your head movements to point a key on the screen, you can turn the auto-scan on and keep using "Blink" to trigger a selection.

Find out more about the selection triggers available in Predictable 6:

Your colour-coded keyboard as a scanning guide

In this video, we show you how to use the colour code functionality as a "scan guide" so that you know which part of the keyboard will get scanned next if you are relying on the switch access / screen tap / scan and track.

From the Theme & Appearance settings > Color code buttons > Keyboard keys:

- Change the background colour of Q + W +E + R + T to a dark colour, Y + U + I + O + P to the lighter version of the same colour (to do so, press each key individually and select the colour to attach to it)

- Do the same for A + S + D + F + G and H + J + K + L

- And for Z + X + C + V and B + N + M

You are all set !