Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
by spoiler on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:00AM
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I'm someone who switched from SwiftKey (paid plan) to GBoard, and never looked back. I much prefer GBoard to SwiftKey. So it might be a matter of preference
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Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
by stavros on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:33AM
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Really? I hope you're right, I'm looking for a better alternative than SwiftKey, but I haven't found any yet. I'll try GBoard again now, thanks.
Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
by andybak on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:49AM
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My biggest gripe with GBoard is the word prediction for swipes that are ambiguous.
It consistently gives me "sine" over "some" and never learns. I type "sine" maybe a couple of times a day and type "some" dozens of times a day. I imagine getting the weighting right is tricky but it just seems to be wrong most of the time.
I don't remember SwiftKey being any better but I might give it another try just in case.
Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
by stavros on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:59AM
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In that department, it's not. It often corrects "my" to "NY", which is ridiculous. It's the best I've found overall, though.
Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
by spoiler on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:35AM
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Ah. These days I just use speech to text, with a combination of swiping sometimes and tapping for punctuation.
I also don't to use my phone much anymore (since I reduced social media usage and disabled notifications).
FWIW I think the reason I moved away from SwiftKey was because it kept having strange language issues in a multilingual setup, but I haven't used it in a while; probably 5+ years.
Maybe I'm just not a touchscreen keyboard power user any longer