
The weird word you're typing will appear just above the keyboard as one of the auto-complete options, even though your phone doesn't know it. If you want to manually teach your phone a word, you dig into Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts, then add the word as a "shortcut".Īndroid devices: For most keyboards and phones: Type the word into any app that takes text. IPhones/iPads: If you type out a word a few times, and refuse the autocorrect offering each time, your Apple device will eventually learn that word or phrase. And it works for voice recognition typing, too. But I taught my phone my weird words, and you can do likewise.

My phone, when I first booted it up, had no idea about these things. The airport is in Cheektowaga, the 290 (yes, we say "the " around here) takes you up to Tonawanda, and the suburbs are mostly The Northtowns and The Southtowns. There are a lot of weird towns and roads and things around my home base of Buffalo, NY. Think a bit before you speak, because backing up and fixing speech disfluencies is painful.Speak at your normal pace and tone, because speech software will train itself to your cadence and tones.
