Tegic
Tegic Communications was a software company best known for developing the T9 predictive text input technology used on mobile phones. Founded in the mid-1990s, Tegic created a solution designed to speed up text entry on devices with numeric keypads by predicting words from a dictionary as users pressed keys.
T9 works by analyzing a user’s keystrokes on a multi-tap keypad and proposing likely word completions, typically
In 2007, Tegic was acquired by Nuance Communications, and its predictive text technology was integrated into