The website very strongly implies (1) the only way to predict words is by uploading every keystroke to central server,(2) every keyboard other than theirs do that and (3) the only way to get privacy is to download their product.
This is all complete lies of course. The prediction database is small enough that you can bundle it with app and run all prediction locally. The "upload each keystroke" part is completely optional -- some keyboards have no such functionality, and some keyboards require explicit opt-it via the easily findable checkbox.
It's a pity that the authors of such original ideas have to resort to lies to promote their product.
You don't need to tolerate software that you have an adversarial relationship with.
I don't think this is necessarily true. It really depends on what you're trying to predict. That said, I would agree that it should be 100% optional for your keyboard to have network access.
Neither Google's nor Apple's keyboards send your keystrokes to the server, that would have been too outrageous, even for them. Gboard is kind of leaky, as it uses "federated learning" where the keyboard finetunes a prediction model locally, then the results are sent to the server and merged there; this is literally a long-term profile of what (and how) you type, and can probably be used to identify you elsewhere. But even then it doesn't send your keystrokes directly.
Here is a paper that describes the cryptography protecting user data https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/281
https://apps.apple.com/se/app/type-nine-t9-keyboard/id926008...
Also work without any network access, lookups are on-phone
lol reminds me of the Mactini : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGOn-H7s3Q
Only joking, this looks cool.
If you want to make unpaid contributions into this project you should carefully consider this.
"Tap, or slide / swipe to type a letter." Slide/swipe how? "Swipe up or down on A to capitalize." So is A acting like a shift key? Or is that for every letter? How to capitalize the letters then that I somehow have to slide/swipe on?
Show me how it is working.
I may have put more than an hour into it already, I'm still only at a bit more than half my speed on Gboard, and my speed with Thumb-key already may have plateaued. It's easier to make mistakes on Gboard, but the speed makes those mistakes worth it anyway.
I did spend something like infinity time learning to type on a normal keyboard, so the comparison is uneven, which is why I'm interested in other peoples' experiences.
[1] https://twitter.com/grishka11/status/1517531884246421505
[1]: https://two-wrongs.com/rethinking-text-input-on-touchscreens...
It would be nice to add more messagease layouts, multitouch 2-pane mode, more symbols, and layout customization features.
Lack of question mark in the standard layout drives me mad.
Also it would be good to have an option to disable animations, they are extremely distracting.
