Upyr

Under the hood

A tiny local decision path

No translation service and no generative model. Upyr remaps the exact physical keys, then asks whether the other-layout candidate is clearly more plausible.

  1. 01

    Capture positions

    The native hook keeps a bounded in-memory prefix for the current input boundary.

  2. 02

    Remap keys

    Installed EN and UK input sources produce the opposite-layout candidate, case and punctuation included.

  3. 03

    Score evidence

    Dictionaries, technical guards, exceptions, and the signed character n-gram index compare both readings.

  4. 04

    Apply carefully

    Only a candidate above the selected confidence threshold replaces text and switches the input source.

SIGNED N-GRAM v1

Character patterns, packed small

Equal-size English and Ukrainian news corpora are filtered by alphabet and split into 2–5-character sequences. Each retained sequence becomes a packed key plus one signed confidence byte: negative for English, positive for Ukrainian.

The app embeds no corpus sentences and no word-frequency table—only 173,964 n-gram records in about 2.8 MiB. Lookup is local, deterministic, and immediate.

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LOCAL TRACE

Follow one correction

  1. 01Map the physical keys

    The same six key positions produce a candidate on the Ukrainian layout.

    g→п h→р b→и d→в s→і n→т
    ghbdsn→привіт
  2. 02Extract overlapping grams

    Add word boundaries and inspect every 2–5-character window. Longer grams receive more weight.

    ^привіт$22 overlapping grams
    n2^ппррииввіітт$
    n3^прприрививівітіт$
    n4^припривривіивітвіт$
    n5^привпривіривітивіт$
  3. 03Compare local evidence

    Packed signed records are found with binary search; longer grams are weighted before the sum is normalized.

    ^g−112 ghb−83 sn$−63 ^п+127 при+116 ивіт$+43
    ghbdsnEN · 0.209
    привітУК · 0.704
    Model coverage · not probability+0.495
  4. 04Make the guarded decision

    “привіт” is known; “ghbdsn” is not. The model agrees, and the policy permits correction.

    ghbdsnunknown привітknown word
    CORRECTпривіт

Public preview

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