How exactly does the predictive text in your phone work ?

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In an phone(Android OS), is it likely for a name that you haven’t used before(a name that is not in your phone contact) to appear at completely random without you ever having used it before ? The name in question is not a popular English name, but a very cultural specific name( Hispanic, Chinese, Korean etc). What influences such names in predictive texts ? If such a name cannot appear by accident, then does name needs to be used a specific number of times for the predictive text to suggest it ? Does it follow a pattern ?

For eg:

If I type a word like ‘Okay’, the keyboard suggests a first name like ‘Lee’ (a non-English name) as the next word. Can this happen if this name hasn’t been used before?

Thank you.

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You know all those times you and other people say “I don’t care if they’re collecting my data, I’ve got nothing to hide/I’m not that interesting/etc.”?

That data gets pooled together, combined with text you’ve written or data from your device, and used in solutions like this.

I long for the day a granny is texting about playing peekaboo with their grandchild and it autocorrects/predictively types “playing peepeepoopoo with the kids.”

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