14 DAY TRIAL // Google has announced that it is integrating Google Scribe an experimental text editor with word completion and suggestions, with Blogger, albeit the experimental version, Blogger in Draft.
Google Scribe is an interesting tool, though it's more a solution looking for a problem than the other way around. As you type it suggests words that it believes should come next, based on a prediction algorithm.
"Do you ever find yourself writing slowly, staring at a blinking cursor or looking for words to express yourself?," Kuntal Loya, Software Engineer at Google, asked.
"Today we are happy to announce the availability of the text suggestions and autocomplete feature of Google Scribe, which is graduating from Google Labs and can now be found in Blogger in Draft," he announced.
Google Scribe is now integrated into the Blogger in Draft editor. Just click on the pencil icon to enable the feature. What's great is that you don't need to use a new editor, the technology has just been bolted on the existing one in Blogger.
If you've used Scribe before, everything works the same, start typing and words will be automatically completed or sometimes suggested in full. All you have to do is hit the space bar or a punctuation mark and move to the next word.
When the algorithm works well, it's surprisingly good, and, with a bit of practice, you can really start writing faster than you normally would. However, if you're a fast enough typist, the interface can slow you down and you'll probably be slower with Scribe.
The tool is available in several languages and Scribe detects the language used from the words already typed. Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish are supported.
Google recently announced that it is shutting down Google Labs, of which Scribe was a part of. At the time, Google said that some of the projects will be moved to more appropriate locations, Scribe is the first experiment to get a new home.