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

submitted 2 days ago by new_otters_raft@piefed.ca to c/opensource@programming.dev

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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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[–] keyez@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I've been using Heliboard with the swipe typing library for about a year and it's been really good. only issue I have is for some reason the keyboard stops correcting until a restart, I'll type a word with 2 letters wrong, the suggestion will be on the bar and it won't replace it.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Transcribro uses the same engine as FUTO Voice but is actually open source.

Unfortunately I can't use any keyboard other than GBoard simply because no one else has figured out swipe typing yet.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried Heliboard with Google swipe library?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't realize that was possible...

[–] new_otters_raft@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Check out the article in the post, it walks you through adding it :)

[–] marighost@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

The swipe typing on Heliboard can be a bit rough, and I have this issue where sometimes when the keyboard comes up, it isn't fully featured ie, swiping doesn't work and I can't bring up the copy/paste menu.