Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text...
by xp84 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:52AM
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I want to know if this will be used to improve all the places where Apple devices attempt to interpret what you might mean to type, including the swipe keyboard. I've been suffering for years with their terrible, unusable swipe typing. You can't even get it to swipe "I love you" because it always prioritizes "your" over you, regardless of the context. I've even experimented extremely slowly and taken screen recordings to ensure the swipes are accurate. There are a couple of other completely astonishing common words that it 100% of the time gets wrong. I guess GPT3 would probably tax the battery, but on the other hand, I'd like to have the freedom to try it, because it would let me finish tasks much easier if text entry wasn't like fighting with an insane overconfident toddler. Honestly, I don't know what happened. Text entry with iPhones 10 years ago was far less infuriating.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text...
by tornato7 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @12:25PM
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I love you I love you I love you I love you
Seems to work fine. Though I typically use Gboard because the swipe typing is much better.
I find the most restrictive thing about Apple's autocorrect and speech to text to be the limited vocabulary. Once you start using any industry terms it completely fails.
Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text...
by gorenb on Sunday September 17, 2023 @12:26PM
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why are you using a <p> tag
Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text...
by xp84 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:51AM
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Especially to whomever downvoted me: there are at least 64 of us with this same bug.[1] — and that’s just the ones who bothered to waste time on Apple’s official discussion board.
I reset my keyboard dictionary again on iOS 17, still exact same reproducible bug. It’s been at least 2 years.