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FUTO Keyboard - Offline, privacy respecting, and speech to text (keyboard.futo.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I had switched to HeliBoard in order to de-Google as much as possible. I'm not militant about it, but if there's an alternative I'll take it.

Decided to try out FUTO because I felt like I was missing swipe typing. And it's good. But for me it's just too much. It turns out I didn't really miss swipe typing, and (possibly just a me issue) that extra feature was making FUTO much less responsive than Heliboard. So back I went.

I guess for me, simple and fast is more important than replicating my old Gboard experience. But each person is different.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Heliboard has swipe typing? Just go to the settings and tap on "Gesture Typing". I believe you have to download a proprietary library for it, though.

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

You can add swipe (glide?) typing into HeliBoard. From their github readme:

Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️)

library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available

can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here (click on the file and then "raw" or the tiny download button)

The only reason HeliBoard doesn't include this themselves is presumably legal liability plus their dedication to the app not having any network permissions at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've had no responsive issues with FUTO so far, just the occasional typo from the ever so slightly different layout.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Just learned about heliboard. Thank you! Wrote this with that keyboard and glide enabled as the others have said. Loving it!