@uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca I decided to give try to gboard+trackercontrol. Internet access is now offfl. It blocks tenor as expected and the offline swipe seems to work as desired. (Which means light-years ahead of any other swipe I've used)
What I cannot tell is if the voice input truly is offline. I had always presumed that Gboard was relying on "Google Voice Typing" integration, but I have that keyboard disabled. I still feel wildly uncomfortable using voice with gboard. How is it so accurate without going online?
Any thoughts on how to ensure gboard voice is also 100% blocked?
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with importing and exporting personal dictionaries. I looked into it a bit, but wasn't successful in finding anything relevant.
Headlines are meant to get attention and this one does that. What you're saying is absolutely true though. There's an incredible amount of weird and horrifying stuff that happens in the animal kingdom. Humans included...
Oh my goodness yes! I say punctuations constantly out of habit and then have to edit them out. But I'm also really impressed with FUTOs ability to determine punctuation based on pauses.
Yeah, I'm having to tolerate a whole bunch for this next best solution, but it's far from perfect.
It seems you and I have near identical usage style and when the same pet peeve, so I completely understand why you use it the way you do. I'm quite terrible and very very slow at typing normally. When I watch my kids text, it literally boggles my mind. It simply is impossible for me.
Dang. I use TrackerControl to do just that for many apps and hadn't even thought about trying to do it for gboard + gvoice because I had not know they had offline processing available for both.
Now its tempting to switch back and see... 😬 but... so far this combo of HeliBoard with swipe and FUTO have been sooo close... and its not google. 😏
I have to admit that gboard is pretty amazing at the detecting my sloppiness. But... knowing everything I type and say is going to Google... well, let's just says I'm willing to tolerate the extra work so as to keep things away from them.
FUTO is definitely slower than Google's speech to text engine, but for the same reason... I think I'm completely okay with that now.
What it has forced me to do now is to actually try to be close to the letters. When I'm swiping with gboard, I was very sloppy and it would recognize what I wrote. At this point, I'm fine being more accurate for the tradeoff.
And there really isn't a whole lot to elaborate on. I simply want to be able to attach a telephoto lens to my OnePlus 11.
I know third party solutions sometimes require a special case, which I'm open to, but the only popular one I found didn't have a case for this model phone.
Unfortunately no. That's remains part of the 10% that this solution doesn't replicate 1:1. But... you can use a spacebar gesture (e.g. vertical swipe) to quickly change languages. Works like a charm.
Just in case I'm asked, here's the basics steps to get it going:
I downloaded the release from https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard and then installed. (Or set it up via Obtainium until its ready for F-Droid release)
I downloaded the Swipe library linked on the HeliBoard Github page from here.
Under HeliBoard settings -> advanced, I clicked "load gesture library" and selected the downloaded swipe library
And for voice input, l downloaded Futo from the play store. FYI, it's free and offline, but not FOSS.
That's it.
Just setup the two apps with your specifics like the theme and etc. This is what mine looks like now:
@uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca I decided to give try to gboard+trackercontrol. Internet access is now offfl. It blocks tenor as expected and the offline swipe seems to work as desired. (Which means light-years ahead of any other swipe I've used)
What I cannot tell is if the voice input truly is offline. I had always presumed that Gboard was relying on "Google Voice Typing" integration, but I have that keyboard disabled. I still feel wildly uncomfortable using voice with gboard. How is it so accurate without going online?
Any thoughts on how to ensure gboard voice is also 100% blocked?