Gesture or Swipe Typing | A Brief Guide to Typing in Arabic | الكتابة باللغة العربية على الكمبيوتر
Overview
This guide is part of a series of visual guides offering brief instructions, recommended tools and hints & tips on typing in Arabic ( الكتابة باللغة العربية على الكمبيوتر) for learners of Arabic. The series include:
- Typing Arabic Diacritics
- Tips for Editing Arabic Text
- Arabic Handwriting Text Recognition
- Phonetic Typing of Arabic
- Gesture or Swipe Typing of Arabic
- Voice Typing of Arabic (Speech-to-text Recognition)
- Typing on Standard Arabic Keyboards
- Typing on Arabic Virtual Keyboards
- Arabic Speech-to-text Transcription
- Scanning Arabic Text
to access all guides, go to Typing in Arabic | Guides, Tools & Resources | INDEX
Gesture or Swipe Typing | A Brief Guide to Typing in Arabic
| In a nutshell! | Type Arabic faster by sliding your finger from letter to letter |
| What is it? | This mode of typing, referred to a swiping, gliding or gesture typing, allows you to write Arabic by gliding your finger from letter to another across your keyboard. Swipe typing is useful for one-handed typing as it allows you to type with increased speed. There are a number of third-party apps that offer swipe typing and two of the most popular are by Google & Microsoft. |
| Recommended Tools | SwiftKey (Microsoft) Gboard (Google) |
Credits
- Written & Designed by: Mourad Diouri, U. of Edinburgh
