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FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by 4gotunameagain »

globular-toast wrote: post #127
blopker wrote: post #36

I've been using this keyboard on and off for a while now. I've always switched back to gboard, however this update made me convert full time. It's really good. There are a few issues, like it randomly capitalizes words in the middle of sentences. Also, it doesn't seem to take context into account when suggesting words, so words that clearly wouldn't follow the last word will often show up. It's not as good as gboard…

Good. That's a silly thing to have in a keyboard. No silly childish gifs that I can accidentally click on is a great feature.

Ah, a refined gentleman, more mature than Swiss cheese.

Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by reddalo »

arnorhs wrote: post #159

I'm curious to see how it deals with dual languages - ie. not switching between them, but using two languages in the same sentence like the google keyboard supports out of the box. my biggest issue is that i make up a lot of words as i type and the google dictionary for icelandic is .. well it can never be fully complete because of the way the language works, so dictionary words are always a mess.

> because of the way the language works

What's the problem of Icelandic? Is it because you stick words together like in Danish or German?

Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by vulkoingim »

puttycat wrote: post #156
vulkoingim wrote: post #148

That's neat! Would love to try it, but am also on iOS :/ With the risk of sounding like a broken record - what are people using on iOS? I've been using `SwiftKey` for a while as it has dictionaries for languages that the native keyboard doesn't have. But I would love to switch to something else, as M$ has been shoving AI features on it that I am definitely not interested in. So far in this thread I've seen Grammarly…

What do you mean? iOS has a native swift option.

Pretty much what `cloogshicer` said.

I am interested in something that has support for multiple languages + swipe support.

Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by morsch »

indigo945 wrote: post #152
growt wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't mind if similar _common_ words are mixed up. But the current state of the iOS keyboard and also gBoard is that it sometimes just makes really unhinged suggestions (at least in my native german). Words I never used before and that I didn't even know existed. I think a small AI layer on top would probably fix that, just the likelihood of next words multiplied somehow with what I possible could have swiped.

In German, it's also extremely annoying that even common compound words will not be suggested. Google Keyboard has somewhat improved here, but FUTO Keyboard still drops the ball on this completely.

What'd be nice for compound words particularly in German is a way to enter them separately and have them merge either automatically or as an option above the keyboard.

Eg enter Bürger Dienste and have it autocorrect to Bürgerdienste. Or even Führung Kraft and turn it into Führungskraft (inserting an s).

Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by backscratches »

popcar2 wrote: post #37

Awesome. I've been using FUTO keyboard for two years now and it's the best free & private keyboard I found, but swiping has been really bad for all these keyboards which was such a pain because I use swiping a lot. Nice to see the hour of swiping I did adding to their dataset actually helped. I'm using it now and it feels as good as the Google keyboard. Edit: It is sending me a little that it keeps swiping "whats" in…

Heliboard has had great swipe for a while and has two finger swipe which is killer feature

Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by utopiah »

utopiah wrote: post #134
utopiah wrote: post #118

Ah nice they do have a VR demo https://swipe.futo.tech/vr-swipe-small.mp4 ... now I'm wondering if there is a WASM version so that it can be used in WebXR.

Apparently ExecuTorch has a WASM backend, could work to load the model this way.

Docs https://github.com/pytorch/executorch/tree/main/examples/was...

Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by esquivalience »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #145
neves wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does It work for non English languages?

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I actually can't find the answer on either of the linked pages, so it would be good to know. And I think people's experience is more important than the claims in these discussions.

Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by precompute »

Vingdoloras wrote: post #38

After experiencing Nintype on iOS many years ago, I can't use any other swipe keyboard anymore. I'm stuck using the stock keyboard for typing, and sometimes (rarely) swiping a word or two when I din't have two hands available. Swiping (with one finger) when holding my phone with both hands just feels unnatural and sluggish. I wish Apple had just bought/sherlocked Nintype and integrated it into the stock keyboard.

Yes! Nintype is incredible and is the only reason I refuse to upgrade my phone.

Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

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Post by jonasced »

arnorhs wrote: post #159

I'm curious to see how it deals with dual languages - ie. not switching between them, but using two languages in the same sentence like the google keyboard supports out of the box. my biggest issue is that i make up a lot of words as i type and the google dictionary for icelandic is .. well it can never be fully complete because of the way the language works, so dictionary words are always a mess.

They have a multilingual input mode that also works with swipe input! I've tried it briefly with Swedish/English on a Swedish keyboard and it switched between languages in the same sentence in a way that made sense to me, but I had to download a separate dictionary.
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