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If you use the privacy respecting Gboard alternative called FUTO keyboard, you've probably noticed that the built in swipe typing is HOT GARBAGE. (Typing this currently with two thumbs for this exact reason.)

Most keyboards improve their swipe algorithms by simply spying on you and logging your typing data. FUTO isn't about that, so they have built a simple webpage based typing game that you can use to improve their system in an ethical and voluntary manner! Just swipe the website's keyboard to type a provided sentence.

I love this, they can crowdsource the improvement without invading privacy!

Share with any relevant communities you're a part of. The more data, the better this gets.

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[–] LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Just did 1,010 words!

Found out that the skip button skips the word, not the prompt.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought so too! FUTO is a project worth supporting in my opinion.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago

Isn't FUTO an organization that named their keyboard application after themselves?

[–] art@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Are they going to share this data with the open source community or is this just for their proprietary keyboard?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just gave them 500 new data samples. :) My thumb is sore.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pitched in 100 words! Definitely some open source swiping keyboard gesture databases would be helpful for everyone.

[–] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Agreed! I use Heliboard but am glad you pitch in some words.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm trying really hard to not revert back to Swiftkey (again, as I do every time I run out of patience with a new privacy respecting keyboard), and I don't even use swipe typing. I'm still hoping that the more I type the better the predictions will get but after using it for a few months I feel like I'm just adapting to bad predictions rather than the predictions getting better.

[–] S13Ni@lemmy.studio 20 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I'm using this one. https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard Once I downloaded dictionary for my native language+ English that came preinstalled, and granted permission to learn from my typing, it's pretty good.

Not as good as swift key, but enough for my needs. I don't use swipe typing but someone I know said it is alright.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

I tried it a while ago but found the predictions were bad. Maybe I'll give it another shot

[–] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

I was skeptical first but after a day or two or became good and now after a month I can't explain why I didn't make the switch earlier it's perfect for my use and I feel more in line with my values

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[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Do you have the LLM fine tuning enabled? Mine is pretty good after a few months of training it.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Wait you can train the Futo keyboard? I tried it a while ago and noticed the poor accuracy and decided to shelve it for a while.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, it's been on and to answer questions below, no it doesn't affect my battery.

I'm having small problems like suggesting capitalized words in the middle of a sentence and suggesting capitalized words as a different word than the non capitalized ones. Like it'll suggest "That" in the middle of a sentence and also "that" at the same time, so two of the three slots are taken up.

[–] polluteyourjorts@lemmy.one 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Does that affect your battery much? The warning pushed me away from trying it.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

No noticeable difference.

[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Does it eat a lot of battery for you?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Please everybody do this. This is sure to help other keyboards, too.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 days ago

Is it? The FTL is restrictive about who is allowed to redistribute and modify anything covered by it. Is this data covered under a different license?

[–] zerozaku@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

This is amazing. I really want to ditch Gboard. I hope this Futo can replace it completely.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 6 points 5 days ago

Feel like I'm destroying the dataset with QWERTY so I'll wait until QWERTZ is available :)

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What a cool idea!
As an avid swipe user, I'll try to send as many samples as I can!

[–] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I've never used swipe typing, so my data is probably garbage, but its kinda fun.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Data is data! You're a use case, regardless of swipe ability.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

As are a bunch of other people. It helps.

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[–] HeneryHawk@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago

FUTO was the joke naming we'd use for files in an old job as there was this one guy who's files were always "FileName-Final" or "FileName-Final2" or "FileName-UseThisOne". So FUTO (Final Use This One) became the name for the most up to date versions

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Would love to help, but they need a way more optimized site or a faster server, whichever is causing the slowness. Waited a full minute and barely got the keyboard to load.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I hugged it to death with the post. Was working fine for the last couple of days.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Worked fine for me. Might just have been the first rush.

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm on iOS, but I gave it a few minutes of swiping to help out.

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[–] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Cool, I will help too.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

My only gripe with this page is that it's in the browser and it keeps recognising a back gesture (swipe from the edge of the screen) whenever a word starts with q or p.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (9 children)

They should simply allow collecting this data via opt-in. I'd gladly provide it, but I don't want it to be opt-out, because then this feels sneaky.

[–] dracs@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

That would require a lot of data privacy concerns to be addressed. Even if it's an explicit opt-in. The current method uses sample text which can't include PII. Using user supplied text would almost guarantee they'd get names and other PII in their data set.

I also imagine it's harder to train the model when you don't know exactly what the user was trying to type. I.e. Was the swipe detection wrong, or did the user delete the word because they changed their mind on what to write?

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[–] dog_@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The one thing I really don't like about it, that really prevents me from using the keyboard is that when I misspell something, and it autocorrects, and then I want to add something else to it, hitting the backspace key removes the autocorrection, with no way to disable it (at least from what I've seen), I cannot stand that, which is why I've still been using gboard, but without network permissions because I'm on GrapheneOS.

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[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

And I've just gotten used to Dvorak...

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 6 days ago

They're probably getting this part of the project started, and might go for more once this works

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