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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

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Industrialised information consumption apparatus, FOSS fanatic, misguided believer in a better world, and owner of too many opinions. My job right now is to replace gesture typing in #Heliboard; It helps to have more people contributing data, or spreading the word around! If you follow me for Heliboard stuff, send me a message I will follow you back.

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athmane mokraoui [BoF] ⏚ꝃñ⌁⁂2d ago

Toot 🎺 : #HeliBoard 4.0-beta1

https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard/releases/tag/v4.0-beta1

Release HeliBoard 4.0-beta1 · HeliBorg/HeliBoard

Changes since 4.0-alpha2: upgrade Bangla dictionary, by @RHJihan (#2574) add Toki Pona layout, by @dsremo (#2575) internal refactor for sanity, mostly by @devycarol (#2252) update list of punctuat...

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ask DNA 3d ago

Welp, I just discovered that I can use a background image in #heliboard.

xyhhx

4d ago

man heliboard is so frustrating to use if you're not just trying to type like a normie

i do not want it capitalize acronyms, the word "i", or anything for that matter. so i wanna delete those autocorrections, because of course you can't configure it to just not capitalize them regardless of your capitalization settings

but you can only delete them from suggestions until you start typing your next word, and so you gotta be hypervigilant about each word you type, which just fucks up the writing experience. not to mention the innumerable amount of words you'd have to delete

of course even if you do catch it, some words will just never be deleted. no matter what i do, "i" is automatically capitalized

#heliboard

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Eeyore_Syndrome 6d ago

@WindOfChange

No....but I do always suggest #Heliboard to people. And those dictionaries are just a +away to add.

https://f-droid.org/

https://f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard

You can snag the Lativan .dict file at:
https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries

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Jon PENNYCOOK 6d ago

@WindOfChange #Heliboard says it has a Latvian keyboard. I only use the English variant, so I can't comment.

https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard/wiki

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Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard - HeliBorg/HeliBoard

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𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔰 Jun 14

SureType and T9?

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/70559213

SureType and T9? - Divisions by zero

Hi, is it possible to implement the SureType and T9 layouts?

Tomáš Odehnal Jun 13

Just wow! I gave HeliBoard couple of hours and I'm immediately dumping Gboard. I can't imagine how it can be further improved but I'll be happy to help. Already sent couple of words and will continue collecting.

If you fancy swipe typing (well, even if you don't), this opensource, privacy-conscious Android keyboard is worth trying.

https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116169411669556587

#HeliBoard #Android #keyboard

eclexic (@[email protected])

#Heliboard is gathering gesture typing data, so that we can implement a #FOSS alternative to the closed gesture typing library Heliboard currently relies on. The data we collect will be released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 I also made a video including details & instructions. Boosts Please! The greater the diversity of people & languages in the data, the better we can test for correctness. PT: https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K YT: https://youtu.be/CyjumVTWtJA Text (instructions only): https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-Contribute-Gesture-Data

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JohnHammerSky Jun 12

How much gestures are good enough for gestures training data?

https://lemmy.today/post/54689934

How much gestures are good enough for gestures training data? - Lemmy Today

I don’t have any parameter to know how much should I aim as a single person. I already did 1000 words, I wonder how much is necessary to have a reasonable decent impact on contributions? Because I’m no English native and I think very few people are contributing to my language, it’d be good to know. Is 1000 a lot? Or too little? Etc…

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eclexic Jun 11

#Heliboard 4.0 is in alpha. It contains opt in background gathering. We are delaying the release on fdroid until some brave souls send us background data using the alpha, to make sure we didn't absolutely bork any of the privacy features we fussed over.

The video will be made public on the fdroid release. Please don't share it before then if you come across it in the alpha. It's unlisted for a reason. 🙂