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I could swear the original Swype keyboard for Android all the way back in 2012 did a better job than modern phone keyboards.
The thing that blows my line mind is that you will swipe or tap out an obvious typo, and the phone is smart enough to read the context of the sentence, and Apple claimed years ago about reverse context corrections, but it seems to never ever make the obvious corrections.
We have the technology! Why on earth can no one make it work?
Edit: the original typo is such a perfect example, I feel the need to keep it visible.
LLMs aren’t even needed for this. That’s way too more power usage than necessary, even locally. We’ve been able detect these errors since Word 2003, and my phone even highlights the words that need to be corrected half the time.
How I miss the 2010s, peak enthusiast. tech was actually getting better, a 2 year old phone was significantly weaker compared to newer phones, there was so much variety and genuinely new and good ideas. Remember that cool robin phone that kept everything on online backups so you can uninstall apps and reinstall them and they were exactly as you left them? or that phone with an eink in the back and a normal screen in the front?
now my 5 year old pixel is practically indistinguishable from the newest ones, and the software is getting shittier.
iOS does make corrections in previous text given additional context. Like change “your” to “you’re”, for example. It still fails miserably on contractions in the most vexing way, but sometimes it is pretty good. And the key detection by changing the hitbox is really quite good, even when using a multilingual keyboard.
If you’re on android and using swiftkey that might be your culprit. For ages I thought I was getting worse but the more I looked at it the more I noticed Swiftkey was suggesting me words that didn’t exist or were spelt wrong. Eventually I switched keyboards and it became way easier.
Loose.
I fucking hate typing on a phone, and I feel like I’m getting worse at it.
I could swear the original Swype keyboard for Android all the way back in 2012 did a better job than modern phone keyboards.
The thing that blows my
linemind is that you will swipe or tap out an obvious typo, and the phone is smart enough to read the context of the sentence, and Apple claimed years ago about reverse context corrections, but it seems to never ever make the obvious corrections.We have the technology! Why on earth can no one make it work?
Edit: the original typo is such a perfect example, I feel the need to keep it visible.
Microsoft bought it, what did you expect?
Back around 2012 people were impressed by how fast I could write in a phone without errors, now? I can barely type a sentence without typos.
on top of that, LLMs are perfect for this, why aren’t they used?
the LLM can get the context of the sentence and very clearly guess of I mean “if” or “of”. and it can be fine tuned to your writing style as well.
LLMs aren’t even needed for this. That’s way too more power usage than necessary, even locally. We’ve been able detect these errors since Word 2003, and my phone even highlights the words that need to be corrected half the time.
then why the fuck does swipe keyboard type like shite?
That’s just it, I have no freaking clue
How I miss the 2010s, peak enthusiast. tech was actually getting better, a 2 year old phone was significantly weaker compared to newer phones, there was so much variety and genuinely new and good ideas. Remember that cool robin phone that kept everything on online backups so you can uninstall apps and reinstall them and they were exactly as you left them? or that phone with an eink in the back and a normal screen in the front?
now my 5 year old pixel is practically indistinguishable from the newest ones, and the software is getting shittier.
Me brane hurt now
Oh 100%. It was so easy to type and/or Swype back then. I remember complaining in the late teens how it had gotten much worse.
Because the “good” minds for it are instead being tasked with increasing engagement and gathering marketing data
iOS does make corrections in previous text given additional context. Like change “your” to “you’re”, for example. It still fails miserably on contractions in the most vexing way, but sometimes it is pretty good. And the key detection by changing the hitbox is really quite good, even when using a multilingual keyboard.
If you’re on android and using swiftkey that might be your culprit. For ages I thought I was getting worse but the more I looked at it the more I noticed Swiftkey was suggesting me words that didn’t exist or were spelt wrong. Eventually I switched keyboards and it became way easier.
which keyboard do you recommend? yhea, I’m in android
I ended up switching to heliboard in the end. You can grab it from fdroid.
I can’t find the swype option
Their username also has a typo. Seems on par for the meme.