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.
A FOSS swipe keyboard that wants user input
https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K
https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K
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.
36 Comments
angrywaffle@piefed.social · 51 pts · 171d
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.
vatlark@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 171d
Yeah absolutely for the transit data. All the wrong people already have my data, I would happily donate my data to the right people.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 26 pts · 171d
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.
doc@fedia.io · 19 pts · 171d
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.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 171d
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.
TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 171d
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.
deprecateddino@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 171d
This is what I use and just firewall it.
vatlark@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 171d
There is no live telemetry, you just email them the data when you are done.
rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 2 pts · 171d
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?
Feyd@programming.dev · 21 pts · 171d
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 171d
I haven't watched the video but Futo collected a swipe dataset which is MIT licensed.
https://huggingface.co/datasets/futo-org/swipe.futo.org
vatlark@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 171d
Thats interesting and its pretty sizable with about a million words swiped. I'm not sure what heliboard is doing differently.
perishthethought@piefed.social · 9 pts · 171d
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.
Willoughby@piefed.world · 8 pts · 171d
I've gotten used to Unexpected Keyboard for use with Termux, but I do agree the average folk need a keyboard for the people.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 170d
The link I was looking for which is missing in the post: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-Contribute-Gesture-Data
Kissaki@programming.dev · 1 pts · 167d
The need to manually download and load a lib and then send the results manually via email is somewhat of a hassle, unfortunately.
witty_username@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 171d
Foxfire@pawb.social · 3 pts · 171d
This has lit a fire under me, I'm gonna gesture so many words! Sucks that I have to download the proprietary library—I entirely stopped gesture typing because of that—but this is for the greater good. I'll exclusively use it for this data collection, and nothing else. Hopefully the word spreads, and we get a massive data set which makes a great FOSS gesture library on mobile possible.
Kissaki@programming.dev · 2 pts · 167d
Being asked to gesture words I don't know, or Nierenfunktionsstörung and other long German words like that 😅☠️
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 171d
FUTO Keyboard might be willing to share data. Its another open Open source keyboard. License purchase optional but encouraged.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 23 pts · 171d
FUTO is not open source.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 171d
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.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 171d
All this FUTO hate must be coming from big-FOSS so they can sell more free.
entwine@programming.dev · 3 pts · 170d
It's always inspiring to see random people on Lemmy calling out big-FOSS and sticking up for the little guy.
(Mandatory /s in case people don't know that FUTO's founder is literally a tech billionaire)
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 171d
Just installed FUTO 5 minutes ago and already love it. One handed typing is fantastic.
three@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 171d
HEY EVERYBODY, THIS GUY IS JERKING OFF
Eldritch@piefed.world · 8 pts · 171d
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.
TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 171d
FUTO has connections to Curtis Yarvin? Goddammit
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 171d
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.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 171d
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)
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 171d
Show me where the license supports your interpretation.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 171d
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
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 171d
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.
clot27@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 170d
DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 171d
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.