Changelog
The release notes for each Lexo version that reached users, newest first. They are the notes from the Google Play listing; paragraphs that quoted test figures, file sizes or product names that have since changed are left out. This list starts at 2.0.8, the first release in our release log, and a version missing from it was not recorded there.
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2.0.40
Autocorrect fixes more typos in Czech, Spanish, French and Polish.
2.0.39
English suggestions are a little more accurate in everyday conversation.
Suggestions stay on while a model update downloads in the background.
Autocorrect fixes more typos in Turkish.
Suggestions now stay context-aware in Battery Saver.
2.0.38
Lexo can now be your system spell checker (Settings > Spell checker).
On mobile data, the Welcome screen offers a one-tap download, so you need not wait for Wi-Fi.
English: autocorrect fixes more typos that spell another real word, and words like THe.
Other languages: fewer wrong autocorrect changes.
Names typed in lowercase are capitalized more often in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and French.
2.0.37
New: search emoji by name. Tap the magnifying glass on the emoji screen.
English: autocorrect picks the word you meant more often, accented words like café are suggested, and personal dictionary words show up as suggestions.
The glide sensitivity slider now works.
With Auto-clean on, English voice typing tidies stumbled restarts like "and and then" and adds commas to spoken lists.
2.0.36
Privacy: Copy and Cut skip password fields, and password-manager clips aren't kept. Old clipboard text is cleared once after updating; pinned clips and images stay.
Fixed: fast typing no longer repeats words (I I I).
English: names and brands get capitals, held backspace speeds up to whole words, and emails stay intact.
English dictation turns a spoken "comma" into a comma, and TalkBack reads switch states.
2.0.35
Turkish keyboard: typos are now fixed automatically when you press space.
Autocorrect no longer replaces words from your personal dictionary. Delete a correction and retype your word, and Lexo learns it. Cautious strength never changes a word on its own.
Dictation uses your personal vocabulary and text shortcuts, and with Auto-clean on it matches each app's punctuation. New option, off by default: "Insert when you finish speaking".
The keyboard reminds you 3 days before your trial ends.
2.0.34
Ask Lexo: type what you want in the field at the bottom of the settings Home screen, and Lexo finds the setting or changes it for you.
New Autocorrect strength setting: Cautious, Normal or Aggressive.
Choose how long a pause ends dictation.
Lexo learns hyphenated words you type and suggests them whole.
2.0.33
Spanish, French and Turkish now offer a correction in the suggestion bar when you mistype a word.
In Spanish, French and Portuguese a clear typo is corrected when you press space, as it already is in English and German.
In Czech and Polish a very short word is re-accented only when the accented spelling is a common word.
2.0.32
Word suggestions are computed on a faster path on most recent phones.
Lexo now prepares word suggestions during pauses in your typing.
2.0.31
Glide typing in Turkish on a QWERTY layout now offers the 16,582 words in the Turkish glide dictionary spelled with a dotless i (ı), like nasıl, aynı and artık.
Dictation into a password field is never read aloud by your screen reader.
Auto-correct now treats words you have typed before or saved yourself as real words, so it stops replacing your own names and acronyms.
2.0.30
Dictation now speaks the last thing you said when the microphone closes on its own.
Before, if you stopped talking and let the mic time out, your screen reader skipped that final phrase and you had to move back through the text to hear it.
2.0.29
In English, the suggestion strip can now offer a number before you have typed any of it, such as a year, a time or a price, when a number is the likelier next thing than any word.
2.0.28
TalkBack now reads the name of each emoji category tab, such as "Animals & Nature", instead of just "Tab".
While you dictate with TalkBack on, touching the keyboard no longer types a letter, and focus stays on the mic so a one-finger double-tap stops dictation.
In English, the suggestion strip now offers numbers while you type one, and right after a $, £ or € sign.
2.0.23
Swipe left on the period key to type "!", or swipe right to type "?". A tap still types a period.
2.0.22
When an updated typing suggestion model finishes downloading, the keyboard starts using it right away. You no longer need to restart the keyboard for it to take effect.
2.0.21
With TalkBack on, downloading a voice model is no longer silent. TalkBack says when the download starts, at 25, 50 and 75 percent, and when voice typing is ready.
When the download finishes, the suggestion bar shows "Voice typing is ready."
2.0.20
Restore purchase now tells you what it found. If no purchase is on the Google account signed in to Google Play, it says so and suggests switching accounts in the Play Store.
With TalkBack on, dictation no longer types what TalkBack says as the microphone opens, such as "Listening".
New setting: Dictation start and stop sounds plays a short tone when the microphone opens and closes. It is on by default while a screen reader is on.
2.0.19
TalkBack now names icon buttons it used to read as just "Button", including the top-left Back arrow and the keyboard button beside "Try out your setup".
The "Smart-suggestions model" row in Settings stops saying "Not downloaded" once a language's download finishes.
2.0.13
Turkish: typing without accents now reaches words that need more than one accent restored. Typing ogrenci now offers öğrenci.
Turkish suggestions now apply Turkish rules for dotted and dotless i when matching what you have typed.
2.0.11
The suggestion strip now orders words by how many keystrokes each one saves, in English, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, German and Turkish.
Turkish typing runs on a corrected Turkish word model.
Double-tapping space no longer adds a period after a semicolon, colon, bracket or quote.
Pressing Enter or Send straight after a correction no longer leaves a stray space behind.
2.0.10
Spanish and French typing now run on Spanish and French word models.
In Swedish, German, Czech and Polish a near-miss word is now corrected as you type, instead of only being offered as a chip to tap.
Two-letter words can be corrected too, in Czech, Polish and Portuguese.
A one-character suggestion like "I" is a wider tap target on the strip.
2.0.9
Backspacing over a word you just typed now takes back what the keyboard learned from it, so typos you fix that way stop collecting in your Personal vocabulary.
A misspelling one keystroke away from a real word is also kept off that list more reliably.
Tapping a suggestion puts the space in straight away instead of waiting for your next key.
2.0.8
Polish typing now runs on a Polish word model, and a near-miss word gets a corrected spelling on the suggestion strip.
In Polish the correction is always a chip you tap. Nothing is rewritten for you.
When a thumb lands on a letter instead of the spacebar, the keyboard now pulls runs of three or more words back apart, not just two.