EDIT: They want users to help generate a dataset. You just play a game and email them the data when you are done.
I just did it, it was easy.
I haven’t watched the video but Futo collected a swipe dataset which is MIT licensed.
Thats interesting and its pretty sizable with about a million words swiped. I’m not sure what heliboard is doing differently.
I love this idea so I just enabled the swipe library we have now (closed, boooo) and submitted my first set of test data. It worked just like in the video here. Neat!
If anyone sees this post and wants some more background on the keyboard and why it’s so handy, here you go:
https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tested-this-open-source-keyboard-for-a-month-and-it-replaced-gboard/NB: I am no shill just a happy user.
That’s really cool. There are a lot of FOSS that need data collection to be accurate and useful. I wish more of them accept donation of anon data. e.g. I’d love to donate my location data in exchange of accurate transit data.
Yeah absolutely for the transit data. All the wrong people already have my data, I would happily donate my data to the right people.
Heliboard is awesome, and once you get it installed its swipe works well. I’m off Android now, but I’d turn on telemetry for Heliboard.
I have to correct 50% of my words in my language (French). It keeps guessing words that don’t exist. Example: I swipe “Donc” (then) and it guess “Do’c”. What is that word?
Swipe in my experience does need work. I’m glad they’re doing this.
GBoard, before I switched, was like 95% accurate. I could trust it for blind typing. Heliboard with the google library is maybe 70% accurate and frustrating. “typing” in that last sentence was first “topping” the second “ripping” before I tapped it out.
To this day nobody is as good as Swype was. RIP.
Same experience here. Swype was the original and somehow after all these years still the best?! Or maybe I’m misremembering because my standards were lower back then.
GBoard is noticeably better then Heliboard. I still use Heliboard but it is frustrating sometimes, to the point where I wonder if I should just start typing with my thumbs instead. Might be faster on the whole, since I sometimes lose 5-10 seconds correcting the swipos.
I will start submitting gesture data ASAP. The keyboard world needs this.
Swype was great but Swiftkey’s (pre-Microsoft) word prediction made it my favorite. It was also able to pick the correct word without me having to care about swiping over the right letters. It seemed to work just by the shape I was tracing.
This is what I use and just firewall it.
There is no live telemetry, you just email them the data when you are done.
I like HeliBoard but the lack of a private swipe capability made it so clunky to use. I’ve been using FUTO Keyboard on Android which has the swipe feature but runs privately offline( no network permissions). The swipe accuracy isn’t perfect but its better than typing each word.
I’ve gotten used to Unexpected Keyboard for use with Termux, but I do agree the average folk need a keyboard for the people.
FUTO Keyboard might be willing to share data. Its another open Open source keyboard. License purchase optional but encouraged.
FUTO is not open source.
https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/
Uses their own license which forbids commercial use but the source is available and you’re free to modify and distribute it so…
Not proper FOSS and doesn’t meet the OSI definitions but colloquially speaking it looks pretty open to me.
All this FUTO hate must be coming from big-FOSS so they can sell more free.
Just installed FUTO 5 minutes ago and already love it. One handed typing is fantastic.
HEY EVERYBODY, THIS GUY IS JERKING OFF
If you modify it but then no one can use your modifications while at their work, then it’s not much use being able to see the code.
That’s not how that works…
It just means you can’t modify it and make a profit from selling it or monetizing your modifications.
(… Or try to sell it without modification, for that matter)
Show me where the license supports your interpretation.
You may modify the software only for non-commercial purposes such as personal use for research, experiment, and testing for the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious observance, all without any anticipated commercial application.
You may distribute the software or any part of its source code only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
The parts you quoted, for one…
“Non-commercial” is well defined.
For a general overview: https://www.copyrighted.com/blog/copyright-commercial-use#what-is-commercial-use-in-copyright
Commercial use in copyright refers to the use of creative works, such as text, images, music, or videos, for financial gain.
Just as I said, can’t use the keyboard with modifications to write a work email. Since the license doesn’t grant that permission, it’s unsafe to assume that it does.
Yeah the more damning thing is the fascism. Anything from or in any way connected to Curtis Yarvin should get a wide berth. Rossman hooking his wagon to Yarvin is disappointing. But well within the norms for him sadly. (Kiwifarms association etc) I want to like him and support him for his right to repair work. But personally I can’t.
FUTO has connections to Curtis Yarvin? Goddammit
Aah he even said toodles at the end! I’m in
