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.
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 word 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.
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
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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
Eternally trapped between my thumbs simply being too big for autocorrect to not be useful and autocorrect’s training data being generated by illiterate and prudish yet self-sure monkeys
Anyone else doesn’t use autocorrect??
First thing to turn off on the keyboards. That and the swipe bullshit.
The irony is I’ve been using swipe since the beginning and I love it. It’s like the t9word system we had on flip phones
I’ve been a swiper since “Swype” keyboard! I think its gotten noticably worse on Google’s keyboard over the last few years though :/
I blame that on tech companies creaming their panties over AI and forcing its implementation where it doesn’t belong
Does anyone actually swipe on their phone keyboards? How the hell does it even work?
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.
Well if I know correctly, gboard is also compatible with ios, so it can work the same way.
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 word 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.
That is the worst fucking part. I try to swipe “for” and get “got” and then I very deliberately swipe “for” and get “got” again. 🤬
It’s like, you just typed “got” so now it’s high in the “words you type” list or something.
It’s just BSD at short words. Yes, BSD. I definitely didn’t try to swipe bad.
I think the QWERTY keyboard is not ideal for swiping. One of the worst things when swiping is having
IandOso close together.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
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.
Try it and stop commenting about it until you do. If it’s not faster for you, then it’s not faster for you. Or go watch a YouTube video about it.
My friend once told me he wqs practicing swiping to type once
I use swipe sometimes, but every now and then it refuses to type something simple. So i hardly use that feature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Edit: turns out that pausing on the E for 1 second works better than a loop. Weed.
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”
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.
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.
I use it a lot it’s pretty useful
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Eternally trapped between my thumbs simply being too big for autocorrect to not be useful and autocorrect’s training data being generated by illiterate and prudish yet self-sure monkeys