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google gboard was able to autocorrect both o my languages without me needing to switch the language. wondering if there's a keyboard that's open source and can do the same. on open board rn

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] Ziomster44 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

HeliBoard is amazing, I recommend it! For those wondering how to enable simultaneous multi-lingual support (i.e. swipe or text in both languages and get predictions in both languages), I explained it in this comment chain, and included a screenshot for reference:

https://lemm.ee/comment/9410038

I tried both, AnySoftKeyboard was a bit too much effort and took me longer to type on unfortunately. HeliBoard was a nice replacement for SwiftKey for me though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

yup, this is the solution, as someone else pointed out too

działa dobrze :) (works well)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you ! I discovered that just now. 🤗

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

SwiftKey user here. Been around for 10+ years. Why did you switch to HeliBoard?

[–] Ziomster44 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here actually, ~10 years too lol, since my first Android. SwiftKey worked very well (for me at least) but its owned by Microsoft, which gathers user data. I've been making a switch to FOSS apps and trying to degoogle myself in the recent months.

It was hard for me to leave SwiftKey due to other options being unsatisfactory / other keyboards always missing something, but HeliBoard did the trick for me :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Awesome. We should be friends, we have so much in common. I'll check it out. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Whilst Heliboard is technically capable of doing the job, the dictionaries are pretty lacking. If anybody has any recommendations regarding those? Swiftkey is pretty bad at recommendations and autocorrect, especially multi language, Heliboard is much worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

yes better dictionaries would be good

lmk if u find some pls

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

helium is actually what I'm on rn :) I remember not liking any soft, but I'll gibe it another shot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Wow heliboard seems like it might be able to finally replace my m$ swift keyboard!

I really hated having to use that, but I type a lot and it was the only one that had very aggressive auto correct.

[–] catculation 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Heliboard does the job for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ye my only issue with it is language switching and its autocorrect (esp for polish) is not great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

tap on a language in the app's "Languages & Layouts" section to enable multilingual typing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

oh shit thanks

dziękuje

let's go it works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

cos ty wyjebal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How do you activate this on AnySoftKeyboard? Mine only autocorrects the current language.