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Posted by futohq 2 days ago

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model(swipe.futo.tech)
702 points | 249 commentspage 5
farhanhubble 2 days ago|
Absolutely cool demo. I used to love this feature in SwiftKey. It still works but after their acquisition by Microsoft they've gone downhill. I've since switched to iOS but would love to try Futo out when it's available for iOS
yareally 1 day ago||
Swiping feels a bit more accurate than Gboard overall. I'm not seeing a way to add a word to the dictionary. Am I missing something?
teiferer 2 days ago||
Lots to be desired, unfortunately. I tried 3 different words. It nailed the first 2 but the third was impossible: The word "serverside" is impossible to swipe. I tried 10x, never did it even come close.
xdkaplan 2 days ago||
I don't think server side is in their dict without a dash. I don't know how to type dashed words in swipe. SwiftKey cant do it either. Long words usually work very well though. That's most of what I use swipe for. Short words I tap, long words I swipe.

e.g.,

Broadside Surfside integration financially illiterate calibration fantastical proliferation haphazardly horrifically striations proliferation (all typed first or second try except antidisestablishmentarianism which admittedly I got carried away)

connicpu 1 day ago||
Interesting, I just tried it and it got server-side the first try, although it wants to insert a hyphen. I did download the larger dictionary from their site.
smusamashah 2 days ago||
Looking at the example videos, specially the VR one, I can't help but think that this gives every word its own unique shape. For example, the word "model" got shape matching infinity symbol.
nozzlegear 2 days ago||
The swipe demo on the website is neat! I wasn't expecting to be able to use it with my mouse.
wolvoleo 2 days ago||
Sounds good but the big problem I have with futo key board is that it can only do one language at a time. With gboard I can swipe type al 3 languages I speak without having to constantly switch. I wish they could make that.
seb1204 2 days ago|
I'm sure they will, version 3. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
wolvoleo 1 day ago||
Well neither is perfect. But I really need that multilingual typing. Constantly switching is so annoying. I won't use the FUTO one until it can do that. It's not some minor nice-to-have.

Gboard has obvious imperfections like data mining. Though on my phone I can just block its network access altogether which mitigates it a lot.

willconnelly 2 days ago||
The first two words i tried to type were both "hello" and I got "help" and "hell" as first suggestions. I'm not sure if the web app is using the same algo but that's an immediate ick.
nmstoker 2 days ago||
Is there some sort of swipe data standard? If there were, it feels like getting a few proper OSS projects going might start to shift things in the right direction (assuming they cracked a way to share a bit of anonymized data)
amelius 1 day ago||
Combine this with AI, and you only have to ramble a bit on your keyboard to get the collected works of Shakespeare.
OJFord 2 days ago|
The demo at least doesn't support tapping, which makes it a nope for me, even if the swiping experience hadn't been ~hank~ ~help~ hello world.
Cider9986 2 days ago|
Try the keyboard or the training. It's better than GBoard in some ways.
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