Rant: Android Gboard on the Pixel 7 pro.
1Google has a perfectly good speech to text interface called Google voice typing. It’s very stupid, which is good, and it only puts punctuation where you tell it to. But that’s not the one that their default keyboard, gboard, uses. Gboard has its own speech to text futility, and it is not so much smart as smartass. They had this problem with the interface a couple of years ago, and had fixed it within 2 days. This time, more than a month since the update that installed the bugs, they still aren’t even acknowledging that the bugs are there. Grump.
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GBoard is problematic? I will stay away from once I get around to migrating to my new cellular device.
@yakkoTDI Gboard itself is very usable for me. I never use speech to text though so I can’t speak to those specific shortcomings. Unless you are using your keyboard to transcribe your voice, I’d still give Gboard a shot.
@djslack I have been using Hacker’s Keyboard for years. Overall I like it better but I miss the emoji integration it used to have.
@yakkoTDI looks neat but says it’s not compatible with my phone (Pixel 7). It is available for my old tablet though so maybe I’ll give it a try there.
I like the arrow keys, but the times I’ve wished for them on a touch device I think I can maybe count on one hand.
@djslack I used to use it more when I got my Galaxy Note 2 but since then I have been doing less and less on my smartphones.
Unless you’re OK with the recipient getting weird unintended messages, you have to put on your glasses and read and correct what it thought you said. At that point, might as well swipe.
@walarney
Swipe was horrible for me. I could either send garbled messages (which was fun) or spend 3x as much time correcting Swipe as a normal message took.
@yakkoTDI swipe has issues for sure. What’s a “normal” message for you then? Does Hacker’s Keyboard have a better input method?
@walarney I just type letter by letter.
My Galaxy S10+ chooses to repeatedly change correctly spelled words to ones that don’t exist, at least in English. A common example: it changes correctly spelled ‘wolf’ to ‘wold’, whatever the hell that’s meant to be. The funny thing is that’s an easy typo to make, yet when I do make that one, it leaves it alone!
@PooltoyWolf Mine likes to change “probably” to “pregnant” until I’ve swiped it about three times.
But as for “wold” — it’s an unforested or deforested area.
I only know this because I recently discovered this awesome limerick:
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
@xobzoo Okay yes, that is indeed awesome.
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!
@PooltoyWolf @xobzoo
Maybe your phone is inhabited by an Olde English Spirit!