• Persen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Does anyone actually swipe on their phone keyboards? How the hell does it even work?

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      5 months ago

      I use it almost exclusively on Gboard. Works well when you get used to it and in combination with the suggestions at the top of the keyboard it’s faster than manually typing. Not sure how it fares on iOS though.

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        5 months ago

        Well if I know correctly, gboard is also compatible with ios, so it can work the same way.

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      5 months ago

      I swipe about 90% of the time, but it’s so frustrating sometimes. It’ll occasionally give me the wrong word. I’ll delete the weird and slow down my strokes, ensuring I stop at each specific letter, and it’ll give me the same wrong word every time that doesn’t even make sense in the sentence context. When it works, it’s great though.

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      5 months ago

      I’ve tried 2 or 3 times, but there was nothing explaining how it worked and what I tried did nothing useful. It just seems stupid.

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        5 months ago

        You just drag your finger to all the letters in the word you’re trying to spell. If you need two of the same letter you just do a little loop while going over that letter.

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          5 months ago

          Wed erred eee wed erred erred erred erred erred weed.

          I had to do like 3 loopty-loops on E to get it to type weed. It really doesn’t like that word.

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            5 months ago

            Yeah there’s a lot of censorship shit you have to work around. It used to be a lot better before tech companies switched from simple proved to work algorithms to bullshit “ai”

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              I don’t think it has anything to do with censorship and the swipe library doesn’t use AI. It’s just a very ambiguous swipe near very common letters.

              On a hunch, I tried simply holding for 1 second on the E. It seems to work a lot better than a loop. You can even see the hovering word change from “we” to “wee” while paused on the E.

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                5 months ago

                I say it’s censorship because I’ve noticed “dirty” words almost always need to be typed out letter by letter but I can swipe for 90% of the other words I want to use.

                I can use swipe to spell hypothalamus but can’t use it to say fuck without typing it in over and over or deliberately adding it to my phones dictionary.

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      5 months ago

      I swipe a lot in Russian because I learned it late in life and am horrible at writing things correctly. So I swipe across the most likely letters and then usually get the correct word out of suggested.

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      5 months ago

      I use it and find it’s the fastest way to type on glass

      It appears to work by matching the path your finger traces to likely words, it also works if you’re slightly off the letters

      The biggest problems are errors like “if” and “of” that start right next to each other and finish the same, it also capitalises anything that is also a name and you need to select the uncapitalised version from the suggestions row

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        5 months ago

        If I understand correctly, you slide your finger on the letters instead of pressing and it is somehow faster, but I don’t understand how.