Swiftkey has launched the Symbols Android app for non-verbal people that opens up a different way for them to communicate. The free app is particularly geared towards youngsters with autism who may struggle with social interaction. Autism is estimated to affect around 1 percent of the world’s population. The team has combined its predictive language keyboard tech and machine-learning capabilities with a range of hand-drawn everyday symbols to ensure speedy access to the right image at the right time in order to start forming sentences. The app, which comes out of Swiftkey’s experimental Greenhouse lab, takes into account what time of day it is…
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