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Heliboard + Google Swipe Lib + FUTO Voice input
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new_otters_raft piefed.ca new_otters_raft@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-15
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There are a whole lot of different keyboard solutions on Android, and let's be honest: a lot of the offerings aren't great. While many of them have strengths, I initially struggled in my de-googling of my life to find a keyboard that had everything I wanted with regards to layout, swipe typing, and voice input. What follows is the best method I've been able to come up with (credit to the cowboy-hatted individual who clued in me into FUTO voice).

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keyez lemmy.world keyez@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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I've been using Heliboard with the swipe typing library for about a year and it's been really good. only issue I have is for some reason the keyboard stops correcting until a restart, I'll type a word with 2 letters wrong, the suggestion will be on the bar and it won't replace it.

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artyom piefed.social artyom@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-08
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Transcribro uses the same engine as FUTO Voice but is actually open source.

Unfortunately I can't use any keyboard other than GBoard simply because no one else has figured out swipe typing yet.

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GraveyardOrbit lemmy.zip GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-07
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sem piefed.blahaj.zone sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-09-04
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Transcribro uses the same engine as FUTO Voice but is actually open source. Unfortunately I can't use any keyboard other than GBoard simply because no one else has figured out swipe typing yet.

Have you tried Heliboard with Google swipe library?

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artyom piefed.social artyom@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-08
#6 · Quote Reply

Have you tried Heliboard with Google swipe library?

I didn't realize that was possible...

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HerrBeter lemmy.world HerrBeter@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Why would Nazis pay for open source development?

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blindbunny lemmy.ml blindbunny@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-06-14
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Hey that's what I'm using.

Do any of y'all know how to add emoji search with the .dict file?

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new_otters_raft piefed.ca new_otters_raft@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-15
#9 · Quote Reply

I didn't realize that was possible...

Check out the article in the post, it walks you through adding it :)

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marighost piefed.social marighost@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-05
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The swipe typing on Heliboard can be a bit rough, and I have this issue where sometimes when the keyboard comes up, it isn't fully featured ie, swiping doesn't work and I can't bring up the copy/paste menu.

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