Learn from text file -- Learn from Whatsapp (Volume 2)
I know that Whatsapp do not offer an API to access their messages. But it is possible to export the history of Whatsapp as an txt-file (you can choose this option in the settings of Whatsapp). It would be great if Swiftkey can analyze this txt file!
Dennis M
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Henning
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It seems that the future is going one way, and Swiftkey the other. Whatsapp, and other short message texting over IP systems, are dominating and will be the future. Swiftkey will miss this train if they don’t change their minds over this issue. SMS is the past, and they got stuck with it. Too bad for a very nice product that has “the best” predictive system. Hope they will take a moment to look into the future soon.
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Chriees
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Maybe it is possible to officially contact the whatsapp-team, so they could work together!?
Works out great for both sides, doesn't it? -
Hexagonal
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I vote for the text file. Or text file with word probabilities. And in a perfect universe, it should be able to handle BIG user text files (several megabytes).
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Denis Yurkin commented
> Export to txt, copy the whole txt to an email, learn from gmail.
This is not an option when you need to learn from a proprietary confidential todo list, note-taking application or corporate messaging application which is able to export to plain text.
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Anonymous
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Export to txt, copy the whole txt to an email, learn from gmail.
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driftinganomaly
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Hi Anonymous, your link just points to an app that only does what can also achieved manually. Like Dennis M said you can export the history and with a little RegEx magic you get a text that only contains what you wrote yourself.
You can paste that into a GMail-Mail and send it to yourself and after that advise SwiftKey to learn from that GMail-account.Sounds good, has only one disadvantage: it doesn't work :-( (why not, SwiftKey-Team?)[/Quote]
I don't know what that output file looks like, but if it contains to/from, date, and time info, try purging that so that only text is left. This is a long shot, but who knows....
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Silvorla
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Great idea! WhatsApp is to SMS what Smartphones are to the old Nokia phones - obliterating it. Everyone I know hardly use SMS.
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xWave
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Hi Anonymous, your link just points to an app that only does what can also achieved manually. Like Dennis M said you can export the history and with a little RegEx magic you get a text that only contains what you wrote yourself.
You can paste that into a GMail-Mail and send it to yourself and after that advise SwiftKey to learn from that GMail-account.Sounds good, has only one disadvantage: it doesn't work :-( (why not, SwiftKey-Team?)
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Anonymous
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Giacomo
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traditional sms now you do not use more '.... almost everyone is using WhatsApp ....... SwiftKey please do something!
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Andrew Scott
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I just had a fantastic idea. Why not copy your entire text file and paste it into a text to yourself, send it, and then have SwiftKey learn.....
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Nacho
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yeah, I write much more from whatsapp than messages or twitter. Actually, my switfkey is preaty ignorant...
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M Fransson
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Good idea
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James
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This app shows you a list of your most-used words in your entire WhatsApp history.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.tiflo.whatsapp.statistics
It seems to just read the nightly backups that WhatsApp creates for itself, but surely SwiftKey can use the same trick somehow to improve the personalisation, precisely as is suggested here.
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ivan
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Please find a way to learn from watsapp.. we very much appreciate that.
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Michael Jangada
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Excellent idea! Would be perfect, after the whatsapp breakthrough SMS is equal VHS, useless to me. Gotta learn from that.
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Serhiy
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I agree with this idea 100%! That is actually the best way to make the really good personalization (of course the facebook, twitter etc. should be kept also). Sometimes people have other means of communication. Let's say IMs and the social networks other than Facebook. It would be possible then to copy/paste the text from any of these sources, and make a file containing a huge bunch of your writing style and words. As well - even this file can be used even if something happened to a phone, and the SwiftKey files were lost. Thus it would be possible to copy it again, start the personalization and it's done - the whole style of typing is saved again. Please add this possibility to your application. If you succeded in personalizing from e-mail and networks that you already have in the app, then personalization from a file cannot be more difficult - it is actually easier, as it doesn't imply connection to the internet and authorisation. A txt file could be fine. I hope you will add this ability!)
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Claudio
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I think it would be great! I don't use sms anymore but use whatsapp a lot
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Anonymous
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Learning from a text file would also provide a way to learn from Whatsapp or other similar messengers that for many people is the main way of texting others...
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xWave
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Having the ability to learn from a text-file would make it possible to learn from unknown applications and sources and therefore would cover a lot of those "Learn from..." requests.
With "learning", I mean a single onetime pass on that file; the file can be deleted afterwards.For example you then could export the sent-folder of the local desktop email application, like Thunderbird, into a text file and make SwiftKey learn from that.
Or you copy snippets from www forum posts you made earlier.
Or you could export your WhatsApp-messages and paste them in a text file.
And so on, millions of usages. And millions of happy customers.
