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Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

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Re: Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

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Post by bboygravity »

blindriver wrote: post #17

I don't want better predictive text. I need better autocorrect. Something happened about 6 years ago where the quality of the autocorrect fell off the roof, and it's been absolutely terrible since then. I spend too much of my time fighting with either mispelling, flipping to the wrong word even though I spelled the word properly, etc. It has made typing on my iPhone an unpleasant experience and I need it to change. T…

You could get a phone with a physical keyboard so you would barely need auto-correct in the first place :p

Source: I have one :p

Re: Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

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blindriver wrote: post #17

I don't want better predictive text. I need better autocorrect. Something happened about 6 years ago where the quality of the autocorrect fell off the roof, and it's been absolutely terrible since then. I spend too much of my time fighting with either mispelling, flipping to the wrong word even though I spelled the word properly, etc. It has made typing on my iPhone an unpleasant experience and I need it to change. T…

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Re: Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

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ComputerGuru wrote: post #35

Just give me the option of not having autocorrect change the previous word when I am typing a new one. I don’t move on to the next word unless the current one was correct or I have already corrected it. Why does it assume I’m stupid? It even does this when I’ve picked the completion for the prior word or swiped to type and then made manual corrections. It’s painfully obvious that it shouldn’t be touched again.

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Re: Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

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danjc wrote: post #74

Inline predictive text is an anti-feature that disrupts your flow of thought. I've tried but cannot understand how anyone could actually want this. Edit: I was referring to writing prose where you're making creative decisions rather than code which is closer to a technical document. In code things are different. Traditional intellisense is usually just filtering a small set of possibilities. For example, auto complet…

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IndySun wrote: post #77

Apple's current autocorrect is skewed towards verbal, not typo, errors. Apple wants your voice. Implementing this deliberately worse change also gave Apple a path to 'improve autocorrect'. Comments are correct, T9 was based on the keyboard and common mistyped keys, simple, and effective.

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Post by Roark66 »

Toutouxc wrote: post #21

Meanwhile my language and dozens of others with hundreds of millions of speakers still don’t get the predictions at all, don’t support multi-language typing and don’t support swipe typing. Typing on a $1000 iPhone in one of these languages is still a 2007 experience.

What language is it?

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Post by pjerem »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #56
ComputerGuru wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It already does and I hate it. If a person you’re speaking with misspells a word, it’ll happy suggest^w forcibly autocorrect a similar word to that misspelling if it was recent enough.

Do they do that across conversations, eg if I misspell something while texting you does it recommend my misspelling when you’re talking to other people?

Yes

Re: Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

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Post by Roark66 »

danjc wrote: post #74

Inline predictive text is an anti-feature that disrupts your flow of thought. I've tried but cannot understand how anyone could actually want this. Edit: I was referring to writing prose where you're making creative decisions rather than code which is closer to a technical document. In code things are different. Traditional intellisense is usually just filtering a small set of possibilities. For example, auto complet…

My favourite input app on android does real time autocorrect by displaying 3 most likely predictions on a bar above the keyboard. So it is not really inline.

With programming IDEs when I can I configure them to display suggestions below the text I type, but if there is no such setting I don't find inline autocomplete bothersome at all. (as long as it displays it's prediction in dark shade of grey or another color sufficiently different from the text I typed, also there has to be a special key to accept the suggestion, like tab, no "enter accept")

Re: Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

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Post by benreesman »

blindriver wrote: post #17

I don't want better predictive text. I need better autocorrect. Something happened about 6 years ago where the quality of the autocorrect fell off the roof, and it's been absolutely terrible since then. I spend too much of my time fighting with either mispelling, flipping to the wrong word even though I spelled the word properly, etc. It has made typing on my iPhone an unpleasant experience and I need it to change. T…

IMHO people don’t often enough think through what the Google search type-ahead would be if it had 100s of millis per BPE token and a demanding cost structure.

No one credible, least of all a guy like me who had been an enthusiastic amateur for a few years, is saying the stuff hadn’t gotten pretty wild recently.

But unprecedented? Nah.

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