swipeType

Swipe typing engine and macOS application.

• Rust engine (crates/swipe-engine)
• Web interface (apps/web)
• macOS app (apps/mac)

The engine uses Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to measure similarity between the user's swipe path and pre-computed word paths on a QWERTY keyboard layout. Each word in the dictionary is converted into a series of coordinates based on key positions, and DTW computes a distance score by finding the optimal alignment between two sequences while allowing time warping. To handle 300k+ words efficiently, the engine applies a Sakoe-Chiba band window to constrain DTW to a diagonal band (O(n×w) instead of O(n×m)), maintains O(n) space by keeping only two rows of the matrix, and filters candidates by first/last character to avoid unnecessary comparisons.

Installation

brew install zimengxiong/tools/swipetype

Building

Rust Engine

cd crates/swipe-engine

# Build native library
cargo build

# Build WASM for web
cargo build --features wasm

# Build staticlib for macOS
cargo build --release --features ffi

use swipe_engine::{SwipeEngine, Point};

let mut engine = SwipeEngine::new();
engine.load_dictionary("hello\t1000\nworld\t500\n");

let predictions = engine.predict("hello", 5);
// Returns: [(word: String, score: f64, freq: f64), ...]

Web

make web-build
make web-serve

macOS App

make mac-dmg
# Creates `apps/mac/build/SwipeType.dmg`
make mac-run

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