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Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

You can add multiple languages to your keyboard and make spellcheck work on them simultaneously

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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.