Editing Autocomplete (section)

=== Original purpose ===
The original purpose of word prediction software was to help people with [[physical disabilities]] increase their typing speed,<ref name=tam2009>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1080/10400430903175473|pmid = 19908678|title = Evaluating the Benefits of Displaying Word Prediction Lists on a Personal Digital Assistant at the Keyboard Level|journal = Assistive Technology|volume = 21|issue = 3|pages = 105–114|year = 2009|last1 = Tam|first1 = Cynthia|last2 = Wells|first2 = David|s2cid = 23183632}}</ref> as well as to help them decrease the number of keystrokes needed in order to complete a word or a sentence.<ref name =anson>{{cite journal |last1=Anson |first1=D. |last2=Moist |first2=P. |last3=Przywara |first3=M. |last4=Wells |first4=H. |last5=Saylor |first5=H. |last6=Maxime |first6=H. |title=The Effects of Word Completion and Word Prediction on Typing Rates Using On-Screen Keyboards |journal=Assistive Technology |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=146–154 |date=2006 |doi=10.1080/10400435.2006.10131913  |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6567291 |pmid=17236473|s2cid=11193172 }}</ref> The need to increase speed is noted by the fact that people who use [[speech-generating device]]s generally produce speech at a rate that is less than 10% as fast as people who use oral speech.<ref name =trnka>{{cite book |last1=Trnka |first1=K. |last2=Yarrington |first2=J.M. |last3=McCoy |first3=K.F. |chapter=The Effects of Word Prediction on Communication Rate for AAC |chapter-url= |editor= |title=NAACL-Short '07: Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics |volume=Companion Volume, Short Papers |date=2007 |citeseerx=10.1.1.363.2416 |pages=173–6 |url=}}</ref> But the function is also very useful for anybody who writes text, particularly people–such as medical doctors–who frequently use long, hard-to-spell terminology that may be technical or medical in nature.