…. . .-.. .-.. — the preceding characters translate to “hello”. What you’re looking at is a language called Morse Code which was invented in the 1830s and used for communication over long distances through Telegraphs at first and then later on for the radio as well.
Although it is seldom used today normally, it has been proven as an effective way for people who cannot verbally speak to communicate. In light of this, a developer named Tania Finlayson who herself suffers from the same problem teamed up with Google to allow people to easily use it on their smartphones by bringing it to the Google Keyboard.
It works by allowing the user to indicate what they want to say using the “dots and dashes” that are used in morse code which are then translated into English language words by Gboard.
As seen in the picture above, it also makes word suggestions bringing in predictive text capabilities. To help people out there to easily learn it, Google & Tania have put together a guide explaining the entire process of running it on your smartphones & tablets. Currently, it’s not available for Laptops & Desktop computers.
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The following is the guide for Android devices which need to be running on version 5.0 or higher:
