Gboard is getting visibly worse almost on a daily basis, especially autocorrecting perfectly legitimate words, presumably based on dubious analysis of other people’s writing. So what’s worth trying? The ability to swipe type is a big plus

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I put this in another comment, but you should see it, too:

    If you go with FUTO keyboard, do these as soon as you download it:

    1. Turn on the machine learning feature for swipe typing (entirely local - nothing about the keyboard phones home)
    2. Allow curse words
    3. Make autocorrect your bitch, and I mean really force it

    If you do these things, it will - eventually - figure out your typing habits. But it’s worth it. I’ve been using it for a month or so and, outside of some odd quirks, it’s working pretty well. Even has a clipboard manager and a “paste” button (for fat-fingerers like me), among other neat tools.

    Oh, and don’t forget to drop it into Obtainium so it can be updated, as it’s not offered through any app store.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I just added it to fdroid… So that is nice

      So I installed futo, I’m typing this edit using it.

      The swiping is a little more precise, requiring a bit more precision on my part.

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The swiping needs to require less precision IMO. There’s a training thing on FUTO’s website somewhere that will give you a string of words to swipe type (accessible only via mobile). That’s how they improve the swipe feature overall, but I think some people may have been too careful with it. Be sloppy, be imprecise, make it learn how normal people swipe.

        Personally, I prefer a bit of sloppiness when it comes to swiping anyway - because if I wanted precision, I would actually type the words. GBoard is pretty good at figuring out that swiping s m w or a m s was probably supposed to be “and”; and other such words that aren’t super accurate when swiped. FUTO keyboard is not very good at that, at least at first haha.