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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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[–] HootinNHollerin 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Complete garbage. It has to have gotten worse. Like it’s training ai instead of trying to help us. I’m convinced

[–] brap 2 points 8 months ago

I use the word "fuck" a lot. I have added it many times yet it insists on babying me and trying to protect my fucking feelings by not suggesting it. Infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I keep hoping that its crapness will at least teach me to proofread before I hit the Post button. It hasn't... but I can hope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

i have a flip phone. i don't use sms, but occasionally i make a quick note in the little 'notepad'. the good ol' tap-tap-tap is more efficient than its horrible predictive text.

[–] Sterile_Technique 2 points 8 months ago

Iirc FlexT9 was ducking (nope, not fixing it this time, rofl) great for the... Galaxy S2?, but then Swype bought em out and it's been downhill ever since.

So... it's not that the tech is bad, it's that it's being hamstrung somewhere.

[–] Emerald 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Join the revolution. Reject predictive text.

Thumb-Key

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

HTC had one of the best keyboards. Each key had 2 letters on each key (except 1 or 2 that had 3) and it never failed to guess what word I wanted. Stopped working with android 4 IIRC.

Found it on a XDA thread from 2010

Sadly still doesn't work

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