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?
Yeah, I don’t know what happened. This stuff is supposed to reduce typos right? Instead, I type “the” and it replaces it with “Tue” randomly for no reason. Who even writes tuesday like that? It’s shorthand from before your keyboard could complete it for you.
You know what’s funny? You can’t remove words. You can’t add words directly, you have to let it learn them the hard way. Why?
At this point, I’m convinced that the steady degradation of technology over the past 6 or 7 years is deliberate, if not, and this stuff can just rot, it’s evidence that we shouldn’t be relying on it at all.
I’m on the Google Pixel and it lets me remove words from being suggested, and only takes me a few times tapping out a word to add it to my suggestions. I use swipe and it’s only gotten better and better for me.
Does it let you remove words from the dictionary or from your words that were added for you? I know you can do the latter, but the former I was under the impression was not possible.
I’m not sure I understand. If you want a word removed from being suggested / corrected to, you type the word, and then click the word, and immediately above the keyboard there are 3 suggested words. You can press and hold the word to get it removed from being suggested in the future/ defaulted to with swype
Yeah, have exactly the same problems as you, and they started once I switched from SwiftKey to Heliboard. I’m staying on this, because it’s FOSS, but Swiftkey is better, in actually letting you remove words from the dictionary, not having that weird Tue thing.
I finally found the setting in the keyboard to delete the words it has learned so I stop getting the stupid typos it picks instead of actual words. Of course there was no list and I had to agree to delete all learned words which now means I will have to teach it again all of the words in another language that I use regularly.
Would have highly preferred going through the list and deleting the stupid typos it saved. I agree with you that it seems deliberate.
You can add multiple languages to your keyboard and make spellcheck work on them simultaneously
Unfortunately the keyboard I use doesn’t support the language I’m referring to but I’ve not needed it to anyway. It’s just frustrating to lose all the words I’d taught it just to rid myself of remembered typos.
I get so many typos now that aren’t even a word. And I seriously can’t even wirt proofreading anymore because it’s just gotten so bad I no longer even care of I sound like I had a stroke.
“Tgat” is not that. It pisses me off!
In the case of Google keyboard its crap so as to push people to use the search engine and view ads. I assume its the same for Swiftkey and Bing/CoPilot
Damn that’s egregious
My main gripe is that my phone wants to replace “youre” with “You’re” as opposed to “you’re” mid sentence. It’s bizarre.
If you’ve reversed autocorrect’s decision on something, it will remember it on iPhone. For example, I reversed “Lol” back to “lol” and after that it autocorrected all of them to lower case. You can reverse it I think, it doesn’t affect me much.
Predictive text is literally the one thing LLM AI would be the best at, and for some reason we don’t seem to use it for it.
It would be slow as fuck though if you want it in real time typing.
Takes too much energy(wattage used by gpu/cpu) to get decent AI results compared to current predictive text methods
I actually can’t complain. It’s not perfect, but I’m far from being as outraged as the OP. I used to love SwiftKey, it was amazing with text prediction, even when you had two languages on at the same time (I’m bilingual, so it was really handy). Since Microsoft bought it, it started going downhill and when I found that I can’t just transfer my settings when I get a new phone, I switched to Gboard. Again, not perfect, but not terrible either. I will try out some of the recommendation from this thread though.
I don’t have as much trouble with text prediction as with the existent dictionaries for my native language. “Español rioplatense” (argentina, uruguay) exists as an option for many programs and devices but for some reason, it is just a copy from “español de españa”. This means, it is constantly trying to correct things that were correct on the first place.
I blame this on american racism and their small view of the world.
Also, i usually write in three languages and text prediction is pretty useful.
For me, every time it suggests the correct base word, it gets the ending wrong, so I have to type out the whole word anyway. For example, if I want past tense it’ll suggest the present tense of the word.
It’s strange because it worked perfectly on older phones. Then smartphones came out and it became worse and worse over time.
It worked great on Blackberry and earlier Samsung Galaxy S devices… How did they make it worse?
I don’t know what you’re taking Abbott
My phone knows my age, my account(s) know my age, the phone maker knows my age, so please for the love of the gods stop removing my cusses. It should damn well know that I have almost never intentionally typed “ducking” and yet I often correct words to "fucking"enough to be able to learn some basic usage patterns. I’m 30 years old, stop “correcting” my text like I’m 5.
Also some really obvious words are constantly “corrected”. My phone will not let me start a sentence with “We’ll”. It will, without fail, change it to “Well” and I have to fix it.
If you happen to be on an iPhone, you can add the profanities of your choosing to your dictionary manually, and it will stop autocorrecting away from them.
Now I never duck when I mean to fuck.
Depending on the keyboard you use, you probably just have to enable profanities in its settings
Yet if you want to start with well, it’ll always change itself to we’ll. Because of course. (Which I had to go back in and edit twice to make it read how I wanted, because it’s aggressive and will do what it wants even several words later, so be real fucking careful.)
Same with Wed (like Wednesday)/wed and we’d (which I originally wrote in the opposite order but when I wrote the second one it decided I wanted to change the first to match… so fun!)
But one can’t turn off autocorrect because that’s a disaster too… impossible to hit the right letters.
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SwiftKey will let you say fuck cunt shit all day. I’m sure other keyboards will too but I haven’t researched for a better one in a while since this one is fine.
If and of, in and on, so and no, these words keep getting corrected for eachother when it shouldn’t. I’ve tried resetting auto correct to make sure I didn’t teach it to do that.
For and fir for me as well… when does anyone need fir??
Christmas.
Mine has a habit of correcting “people” into “puerile”, a word I’ve never used except for complaining in this context.
Mine correct “human” to “juman”. That’s not even a word!
Or and it and out
T9 text worked wonderfully, and it’s only gotten worse from there.
Now that I think about it. Autocorrect sucks! It was made to make up for the inferiority of an onscreen keyboard (which I do prefer for this obvious reasons).
When I type on a computer keyboard, after a paragraph or a few sentences, I check if any words has a red underline and that kind of makes me proof read things as I type.
Autocorrect does the opposite, it “fixes” things you type so when you look back it’s fire and you press send.
fire
Hahahahahhaahhaa
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It seems to very a lot from phone to phone. My current phone is terrible. It “corrects” words I don’t want it to, and leaves in obvious typos.
it varies per keyboard. you can install third party keyboard apps that offer different dictionaries and autocorrect capabilities.
When it changes a word that you’ve spelled correctly and intentionally into something completely different is when I want to chuck the thing across the room.
Or when it “corrects” a word I didn’t want, so I delete the part it changed and then type in what I want to say and it “corrects” it again into the same thing I just deleted. Satan could learn a thing or two from whoever invented that “feature.”
Yeah like spelling vary as very.
I’m feeling very I’ll.
