Microsoft has started integrating Bing AI features into its popular keyboard app SwiftKey. Third-party tools already include some AI capabilities, such as learning from your writing style and making suggestions. When users click her Bing button in the top left of the keyboard, they see her three options: Search, Tone, and Chat.
If you want to know which dessert goes best with your lasagna, just type in the search bar during a conversation. Chat will suggest replies that it thinks go along with the message or email you’re replying to. However, if you’re replying to a work email and need to make things look a little more professional, tone can help keep things more formal.
iOS and Android users can set SwiftKey as their default keyboard across apps such as social media and email. Basically, if an app allows 3rd party keyboards, you can use her SwiftKey in that app. Besides AI technology, SwiftKey’s other features include spelling error correction, task saving, personalized toolbars, and more. The Bing button is on the left side of the keyboard and auto-suggests at the top as the user types.
SwiftKey can also access five languages of your choice. In the same release, Microsoft revealed an update to his Bing app’s translation service. Users translating a word or phrase from English to French, Spanish, or Italian now see the masculine and feminine forms while the chatbot guesses.
The inclusion of Bing in SwiftKey follows the lead of other Microsoft programs such as Skype and Microsoft Start. While Skype allows users to message directly with Bing in group chats or one-on-one, Microsoft Start gives access to Bing across the app.
