If you use the privacy respecting Gboard alternative called FUTO keyboard, you’ve probably noticed that the built in swipe typing is HOT GARBAGE. (Typing this currently with two thumbs for this exact reason.)
Most keyboards improve their swipe algorithms by simply spying on you and logging your typing data. FUTO isn’t about that, so they have built a simple webpage based typing game that you can use to improve their system in an ethical and voluntary manner! Just swipe the website’s keyboard to type a provided sentence.
I love this, they can crowdsource the improvement without invading privacy!
Share with any relevant communities you’re a part of. The more data, the better this gets.
This is so cool, as someone who uses swipe all the time, I’ll be sure to send as many samples as I can
I’ve never used swipe typing, so my data is probably garbage, but its kinda fun.
You can get so fast at it surprisingly quickly. I keep trying to get friends to do it but they’re like “Nah that sucks.”
I swear almost anyone can get good at it inside a week.
Data is data! You’re a use case, regardless of swipe ability.
As are a bunch of other people. It helps.
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Cool, I will help too.
That’s a neat solution
I thought so too! FUTO is a project worth supporting in my opinion.
Isn’t FUTO an organization that named their keyboard application after themselves?
I’m trying really hard to not revert back to Swiftkey (again, as I do every time I run out of patience with a new privacy respecting keyboard), and I don’t even use swipe typing. I’m still hoping that the more I type the better the predictions will get but after using it for a few months I feel like I’m just adapting to bad predictions rather than the predictions getting better.
Do you have the LLM fine tuning enabled? Mine is pretty good after a few months of training it.
Wait you can train the Futo keyboard? I tried it a while ago and noticed the poor accuracy and decided to shelve it for a while.
Yeah, it’s been on and to answer questions below, no it doesn’t affect my battery.
I’m having small problems like suggesting capitalized words in the middle of a sentence and suggesting capitalized words as a different word than the non capitalized ones. Like it’ll suggest “That” in the middle of a sentence and also “that” at the same time, so two of the three slots are taken up.
Does it eat a lot of battery for you?
Nope
Does that affect your battery much? The warning pushed me away from trying it.
No noticeable difference.
I’m using this one. https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard Once I downloaded dictionary for my native language+ English that came preinstalled, and granted permission to learn from my typing, it’s pretty good.
Not as good as swift key, but enough for my needs. I don’t use swipe typing but someone I know said it is alright.
Does not have swipe except when using a Google library
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I was skeptical first but after a day or two or became good and now after a month I can’t explain why I didn’t make the switch earlier it’s perfect for my use and I feel more in line with my values
I tried it a while ago but found the predictions were bad. Maybe I’ll give it another shot
I just gave them 500 new data samples. :) My thumb is sore.
FUTO was the joke naming we’d use for files in an old job as there was this one guy who’s files were always “FileName-Final” or “FileName-Final2” or “FileName-UseThisOne”. So FUTO (Final Use This One) became the name for the most up to date versions
My only gripe with this page is that it’s in the browser and it keeps recognising a back gesture (swipe from the edge of the screen) whenever a word starts with q or p.
This keeps happening to me too. I cannot find a way around it.
Are they going to share this data with the open source community or is this just for their proprietary keyboard?
Please everybody do this. This is sure to help other keyboards, too.
Is it? The FTL is restrictive about who is allowed to redistribute and modify anything covered by it. Is this data covered under a different license?
Would love to help, but they need a way more optimized site or a faster server, whichever is causing the slowness. Waited a full minute and barely got the keyboard to load.
Pretty sure I hugged it to death with the post. Was working fine for the last couple of days.
Worked fine for me. Might just have been the first rush.
I’m on iOS, but I gave it a few minutes of swiping to help out.
Just did 1,010 words!
Found out that the skip button skips the word, not the prompt.
Pitched in 100 words! Definitely some open source swiping keyboard gesture databases would be helpful for everyone.
Agreed! I use Heliboard but am glad you pitch in some words.
