Swype: How do you do these two things?

To type a possessive, simply add the ' (or . button) in with the other letters of the word. For example, if you wanted to type it's, simply swype "i t . s".

As far as punctuation, I have no idea. I'll be following this thread to find out myself.

 

I haven't used swype for a while so I could be wrong but I think if you want a period just press space (twice maybe) after the last word swyped, if you do this I don't think there is a need to press space again. If you want any other mark you will need to long press and space or press alt the mark then space.

 

For punctuation, you can swype from the punctuation mark to the space bar.

For example, if you want to type a ?, you don't need to long press, just swype from the ? key to the space.

 

Swype has a bunch of tutorial videos on their site. I'd recommend anyone using swype watch them. You might learn a few tricks.

 

I think you will need to add the word "John's" to your dictionary first then you can swype it like a contraction.

 

At least for the first time you type "John's". After that it's supposed to get added to the dictionary.

I really like the Swype keyboard, but the Google/Android speech-to-text synthesis is so excellent that I mostly just dictate my emails & text messages and let Google/Android synthesize it to text. I can talk a lot faster than I can type. I can even say the punctuation marks, like "question mark" and "exclamation point". If I need to edit any of the synthesized text, I often use Swype's editing keyboard, which contains keys like arrow keys, page-up, select, delete-back, delete-forward, etc. You can get to that editing keyboard by swiping (from left to right) the bottom-left-most two keys.

 

There's a mic key at the bottom near the space bar that you press.

 

Erm...isn't it just a matter of bringing up the keyboard and hitting the mic button? If the keyboard isn't showing up on its own you can long-tap the Menu hard button.

 

Don't know if you've resolved this by now but I found this on another thread...

Swype JOHN then lift your finger then swype from the apostrophe key to the S