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Heliboard + Google Swipe Lib + FUTO Voice input (cenotaph.cc)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by new_otters_raft@piefed.ca to c/android@lemdro.id

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An excerpt from their writeup:

There are a whole lot of different keyboard solutions on Android, and let's be honest: a lot of the offerings aren't great. While many of them have strengths, I initially struggled in my de-googling of my life to find a keyboard that had everything I wanted with regards to layout, swipe typing, and voice input. What follows is the best method I've been able to come up with (credit to the cowboy-hatted individual who clued in me into FUTO voice).

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[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago

Using Google play services free GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6 (so swipe even works with reduced screen estate) with the FUTO keyboard and this paragraph was completely written with its swipe feature. The only problematic words were GraphenOS and swipe.

Writing this by tapping again as I'm actually faster that way. But from what I can say, swiping works really good. I appreciate the authors effort but I won't pull in some Google library again (especially related to monitoring keyboard input) via a hackish way.

I'm completely satisfied with FUTO as an all-in-one solution already. The voice input using local models works especially good. I'm not 100% sure but I could swear the devs changed the key sizes in one of the current updates. They're perfectly sized now. The one thing I miss is a TAB key for autocompletition, when I'm logged in on a SSH terminal. But otherwise it's feature complete for me.