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Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? (self.technology)
submitted 8 months ago by HonoraryMancunian to c/technology
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I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Even though gboard is a google product and probably sends a ton of data, the autocorrect has never been an issue for me personally. I can type much faster because it will always autocorrect to what I intend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah I've been very happy with Gboard recommendations, I disabled networking for the app since I'm using GrapheneOS and it still does great. Even voice to text is scary good, just have to download the model before disabling networking.

[–] orgrinrt 2 points 7 months ago

Oh how I wish the same was true for languages other than English too… autocorrect has always been borderline unusable with my (granted, smaller) language, and this is true for all of the applications of autocorrect, be it android or iOS or whatever.