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Is it possible to disable/remove the speech-to-text button on Android in the address bar? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I keep accidentally tapping it when trying to tap at the end of the address to edit it. Currently this is my biggest struggle with Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I recommend Mull, btw Google gboard is reading everything you type, I recommend Futo Keyboard, Heliboard or Florisboard

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Futo keyboard is nice, thanks for the recommendation!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

+1 for Florisboard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I use Florisboard myself, for its action bar and the priceless clipboard menu (also very secure as it is not shared with the system clipboard).

But Heliboard and Futo Keyboard have autocorrect, and Futo keyboard also voice input, really cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Heliboard with FUTO voice is the one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You dont need Futo voice, Futo keyboard has a worse UI but allows to import the same models (the biggest one is the only one that has good results) externally.

https://keyboard.futo.org/voice-input-models

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Sure but if you don't want a worse UI then you can use these models with Heliboard, best of both worlds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I use HeliBoard with Sayboard, don't want to support a company like FUTO that isn't properly FOSS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Honestly it's source available, and you can make a fork of it as long as it's non-commercial and doesn't use the futo name.

I'm fine with it, the liscence, while unusual, seems perfectly fine to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

very fair tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I just started using FUTO, text to speech is a bit slower than g board but works about as well.

Swipe and word prediction seems to work just about the same as Gboard

I've configured mine to look so similar it looks almost the same (amoled dark theme, number row, symbol hints, reduce press delay to 150ms)

Biggest thing I miss is gif search, I switch to gboard for that then switch back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

About as well? Futo is running locally, i.e. on your smartphone, as opposed to getting uploaded to Google and then processed there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ya, on my pixel 8 pro, futo Takes just slightly longer to process Compared to Google, but the accuracy at the end seems to be the same. The difference in speed is really not very significant But it is noticeable.