I’m sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I’m sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I’m sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it’s been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?
Even though gboard is a google product and probably sends a ton of data, the autocorrect has never been an issue for me personally. I can type much faster because it will always autocorrect to what I intend.
Oh how I wish the same was true for languages other than English too… autocorrect has always been borderline unusable with my (granted, smaller) language, and this is true for all of the applications of autocorrect, be it android or iOS or whatever.
Yeah I’ve been very happy with Gboard recommendations, I disabled networking for the app since I’m using GrapheneOS and it still does great. Even voice to text is scary good, just have to download the model before disabling networking.
People love to hate Rowling, but her descriptions of magic are very perceptive as predictions of computing.
Like in this case. Both Skeeter with her magic quill (LLM as it is) and the spell-checking quills (I think Ron liked that he could write much faster with those at first, so either he’s as smart as a neanderthal, or they “improve” not only orthography).
And Snape’s invented spells and how he doesn’t really like their popularity remind me of script-kiddies.
I think I’ve read a fanfic where Hogwarts was converted into some kind of a “school for hackers” (in that early 00s spirit, think Lara Croft and Spy Kids movies). The universe was generally the same, only magic was replaced with that.
… What?
What what?
I really don’t get people who express their inability to understand something without a specific question. As if being dumb were something to be proud of.EDIT: Sorry, was thinking of an unpleasant thing.
This thread is about predictive typing and your post was so barely tangentially related as to be a non-sequitur. So again I ask: What?
and your post was so barely tangentially related as to be a non-sequitur
Which is your opinion, not accompanied with anything to help me care. Again, if a certain connection or association is real, but still feels out of place for you, then the problem is likely with yourself and doesn’t concern me.
“Tgat” is not that. It pisses me off!
It’s a privacy issue. To predict, the service would have to get to know you better and there are privacy problems with that.
They just can’t seem to figure out a way NOT to be invasive. Go figure.
Hard disagree. I’m using g board, from Alphabet, which is about as concerned with privacy as a nudist exhibitionist with a shame kink. That is to say, privacy as a concept exists yes, but only to be perverted.
The only comfort is that I’m not the only one with random capitalization in my texts
Oh what. Is that really why? Ffs this is one of the things I’ll happily consent to
No,that’s not why. 6 years ago these apps collected less data and worked better.
Gboard is so good at predicting text it is scary sometimes.
It’s all getting worse, I swear Swype worked near flawlessly fifteen years ago. I’ve used iNsturalist for years to identify plants and animals. lately it doesn’t know what anything is. It thought a bird was a bullfrog yesterday. Search results, GPTs, all nearing unusability.
Yep swype around 2010-12 was the golden age of this stuff. I distinctly remember being on a bus commute being amazed how quickly I could pump out work emails, and documents on way to work on maybe an LG android smartphone with no manual invention required on spelling or grammar. Ancient times. Just typing out this comment on mobile in 2024 I’ve had to recorrect every 4th to 5th word , either I mistyped and it doesnt autocorrect correctly , or its autochanging correct words to wrong ones. I have big fingers but the phone is the higgest I’ve had. Clearly these enshittertech corporations dont make money from making better or more useful products .
Google keyboard was even better that Swype back then. Only when they started trying to make it smarter by scrubbing all our text input did it start getting worse. However they need the pretense to collect all our input so they’re never going back.
Gboard was first introduced in 2016, I’m talking 2010-2012.
Google keyboard predates gboard. App view here says 2013, so not quite that range but close.
I don’t know what you’re taking Abbott
My favorite is how shitty voice to text has gotten over the last year as well
It’s literally only gotten worse
A few days ago I tried to use it to message a friend about something cool I saw at work and it sent them a random URL because at the end of a sentence it didn’t put a space it just started the next sentence
It’s becoming literally useless due to random shit like that
Voice typing is the only thing that suffers OP’s complaints in my experience.
Gboard swiping is okay, but I agree, there are still some annoyances. Random mid-sentence capitalization is a big one for me.
And no matter how hard I try, no matter what the settings are, no matter how slowly and deliberately I motion, it will absolutely never output the word “fuck” when swiping. It will say “fucking”, it will even say “fuckin”, but it will never say “fuck”.
Gucci. Duck. Tick. Duck. Rick. Dick. Gigi. FICO. Guck.
This was barely funny back in 2009, now it’s just embarrassing. WTF even is “guck”.
I got it to type fuck just now when I started swiping from g instead of f, so it wouldn’t put a d. if yours is typing guck though, that probably won’t work
Settings > Text Correction, uncheck third option down “Block Offensive Words”
Fuck fuck fuck cunt bitch asshole (all swipe texted, only the first “fuck” became “duck”)
It’s the first thing I do when I’m breaking in a new android device: aggressively force-training it to accept all my usual expletives.
You have forever changed the way I communicate from this day on.
It’s never let me down
You’d think that would’ve filtered the “fucking” and “fuckin”, though.
My main gripe is that my phone wants to replace “youre” with “You’re” as opposed to “you’re” mid sentence. It’s bizarre.
If you’ve reversed autocorrect’s decision on something, it will remember it on iPhone. For example, I reversed “Lol” back to “lol” and after that it autocorrected all of them to lower case. You can reverse it I think, it doesn’t affect me much.
Or how about with apple, when it autocorrects a word, and you want to manually click to the middle of the word, or even to the beginning or end, it fuckin highlights the word endlessly. That’s one of the most frustrating for me.
I’ve Al’s it entirely stopped using swype because it’s so dogshit now. I used to love it.
This sounds like user error to me. Hold the spacebar, then drag your thumb to move the cursor exactly where you want it.
Fully aware of that function. As I said elsewhere, it just doesn’t come naturally to me to do that. It’s like using the arrows on a keyboard to move the cursor through text. It works, but I just use the mouse and click where I want to edit. If using the mouse didn’t work in certain instances, I’d have the same complaint. I want to click where I want, when I want. Not use a function I don’t naturally use when the computer forces me to. See what I’m saying? Doesn’t change the problem that there’s a workaround. It shouldn’t need a workaround for a super basic, incredibly common function.
Actually using the arrows along with ctrl and shift is much faster than taking your hands off the keyboard and using the mouse. Would recommend
Swype typing still working awesome for me on Gboard.
What’s Gboard?
Edit: ugh, it’s google? That it’s own problem I’d like to avoid
It would solve two of your problems though, that’s a pretty good bargain.
I gave up on swipe typing and installed a simple, basic, Open Source keyboard. I loved swipe, but got fed up with dealing with the aggravation.
Any touch keyboard can screw up, of course. But going back to tapping has reduced the errors a hundred fold. With the added bonus of extra privacy.
Are there no FOSS keyboards w/ a swipe feature? I really like it, but it really does suck sometimes.
That’s my biggest pet peeve, when it auto suggests words that don’t exist.
I sideloaded HeliBoard on Android via F-Droid and the predictive text is coming along nicely the more I type.
Hmmm, wonder why it needs side loaded? Why can they post to the Google store?
Edit: just installed it and f-droid, though. Super easy.
Posting on the google store sucks, they make you jump through hoops and will collect data. If the app is already open source, there is no good reason to put it on the google play store.
Also, I don’t really understand the point of the term side loading when Android doesn’t prevent you to from adding other software sources. It feels like it carries connotations when all you are doing is adding a very well established open source software repository.
Let me know what you think about it. I also loaded the swipe gesture pack and it is super responsive
For me, every time it suggests the correct base word, it gets the ending wrong, so I have to type out the whole word anyway. For example, if I want past tense it’ll suggest the present tense of the word.
