Swype: How do you do these two things?

[JohnJSal]

I'm wondering if there are more elegant ways to do the following two things:

1. Typing possessive nouns. The only thing that seems to work is typing the non-possessive form of the word, then lifting my finger, long-pressing the apostrophe, and then typing the 's'. Is it possible to do it all in one swipe?

2. Similarly, is it possible to punctuate a sentence with one swipe? If I want to end a sentence with a period, question mark, exclamation mark, etc. I have to lift my finger and then long-press the particular punctuation mark I want. Further, if I then want to continue with a new sentence, I have to press Space before typing the next word, otherwise the sentence begins immediately after the punctuation mark. Is there a way to end a sentence with a punctuation mark, and also to add a space when you want to continue typing a new sentence?

Thanks.

 

[Mr. Clean]

To type a possessive, simply add the ' (or . button) in with the other letters of the word. For example, if you wanted to type it's, simply swype "i t . s".

As far as punctuation, I have no idea. I'll be following this thread to find out myself.

 

[Yeahha]

I haven't used swype for a while so I could be wrong but I think if you want a period just press space (twice maybe) after the last word swyped, if you do this I don't think there is a need to press space again. If you want any other mark you will need to long press and space or press alt the mark then space.

 

[lexluthor]

For punctuation, you can swype from the punctuation mark to the space bar.

For example, if you want to type a ?, you don't need to long press, just swype from the ? key to the space.

 

[JohnJSal]

To type a possessive, simply add the ' (or . button) in with the other letters of the word. For example, if you wanted to type it's, simply swype "i t . s".

That's not a possessive, that's a contraction.

What I mean is something like this:

I have John's hat.

How do I type "John's" without lifting my finger?

 

[JohnJSal]

For punctuation, you can swype from the punctuation mark to the space bar.

For example, if you want to type a ?, you don't need to long press, just swype from the ? key to the space.

Thanks! This is great for when I start a new sentence.

Do you happen to know if there's a way to end a sentence with a punctuation mark without lifting your finger but *not* add the final space?

 

[lexluthor]

Swype has a bunch of tutorial videos on their site. I'd recommend anyone using swype watch them. You might learn a few tricks.

 

[JohnJSal]

Swype has a bunch of tutorial videos on their site. I'd recommend anyone using swype watch them. You might learn a few tricks.

Yeah, I watched those. Unfortunately the "Apostrophe" video only discusses how to swipe contractions, not possessive nouns.

 

[Yeahha]

How do I type "John's" without lifting my finger?

I think you will need to add the word "John's" to your dictionary first then you can swype it like a contraction.

 

[JohnJSal]

I think you will need to add the word "John's" to your dictionary first then you can swype it like a contraction.

Doh! So I guess there's no way besides just long-pressing the apostrophe then?

 

[RazzMaTazz]

Doh! So I guess there's no way besides just long-pressing the apostrophe then?

At least for the first time you type "John's". After that it's supposed to get added to the dictionary.

I really like the Swype keyboard, but the Google/Android speech-to-text synthesis is so excellent that I mostly just dictate my emails & text messages and let Google/Android synthesize it to text. I can talk a lot faster than I can type. I can even say the punctuation marks, like "question mark" and "exclamation point". If I need to edit any of the synthesized text, I often use Swype's editing keyboard, which contains keys like arrow keys, page-up, select, delete-back, delete-forward, etc. You can get to that editing keyboard by swiping (from left to right) the bottom-left-most two keys.

 

[JohnJSal]

At least for the first time you type "John's". After that it's supposed to get added to the dictionary.

I really like the Swype keyboard, but the Google/Android speech-to-text synthesis is so excellent that I mostly just dictate my emails & text messages and let Google/Android synthesize it to text. I can talk a lot faster than I can type. I can even say the punctuation marks, like "question mark" and "exclamation point". If I need to edit any of the synthesized text, I often use Swype's editing keyboard, which contains keys like arrow keys, page-up, select, delete-back, delete-forward, etc. You can get to that editing keyboard by swiping (from left to right) the bottom-left-most two keys.

Where do you get the speech to text feature?

 

[ScottColbert]

Where do you get the speech to text feature?

There's a mic key at the bottom near the space bar that you press.

 

[JohnJSal]

There's a mic key at the bottom near the space bar that you press.

Ah, of course! I've only tried it to send a text, but it always messes up at the "To:" part, so I just gave up on it.

 

[JohnJSal]

Is it possible to use the voice to text feature to make a post like this one? How do you make the text appear in this box to post it?

 

[doniago]

Erm...isn't it just a matter of bringing up the keyboard and hitting the mic button? If the keyboard isn't showing up on its own you can long-tap the Menu hard button.

 

[JohnJSal]

Wow I completely missed that. I was thinking of using the magnifying glass on the phone itself. Thanks.

 

[v5raptor]

Doh! So I guess there's no way besides just long-pressing the apostrophe then?

Don't know if you've resolved this by now but I found this on another thread...

Swype JOHN then lift your finger then swype from the apostrophe key to the S