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The first thing I do on a new input device is disable autocorrect for good. If you write regularly in three different languages, it's more a hindrance than a h

The first thing I do on a new input device is disable autocorrect for good. If you write regularly in three different languages, it's more a hindrance than a help.

magicalhippo 7y ago
Same, albeit just two languages. Also, in Norwegian we use compound words. So for example "garage door" is "garasjedør" ("garage" = "garasje"). The auto-correct on my Android hardly gets any of those right. I've noticed my friends who use auto-correct usually don't compound words, which can change the meaning of the sentence completely.
- StavrosK 7y ago
  SwiftKey generally does a good job with multiple languages, although it will sometimes replace an English word that I typed correctly with the Spanish word (which is spelled the same but has a stress mark) in an otherwise fully English sentence, with me unaware why it's making the distinción.
- Ndymium 7y ago
  I have two issues in Finnish with Android's (Gboard) autocorrect: inflection and language selection. In Finnish, words can have over a thousand inflected forms. Granted most of them are not used usually but every day I bump into a word that the autocorrect knows but when I add the inflection, it no longer recognises it. It tells me that it doesn't actually parse or "know" Finnish text, it just has a huge word list. The second issue is that it decides which language's suggestion to show based on the characters I've typed (since I have it set to both English and Finnish). Normally it shows suggestions from both languages but if I type a single ä, ö, or å, it never suggests an English word. This is unfortunate since I sometimes hit such a character by accident and I have to go back and retype the word from that point to get back the English suggestions.
Agentlien 7y ago
I use swiping on a Samsung phone and regularly write in three languages (English, Swedish, and Dutch). While there are some annoyances, I find it still speeds it up a lot as long as I change keyboard language (done by swiping left or right on the space bar) to match the language I'm currently using.
Cthulhu_ 7y ago
Same, it's causing more frustration than it's worth for me. Call me a luddite but I don't like things changing what I wrote. Keyboards should be more accurate.
battery_cowboy 7y ago
Wow, i never even thought to do this, but i just did and i haven't had such a nice time typing in forever! The instant i turned it off it started typing better. Before now, i always had misspellings due to autocorrect, but not anymore. It's amazing i never thought to do this. The only problem i have now is with the i not becoming capitalized automatically.
- teaneedz 7y ago
  right! you would think that maybe someone would have thought about capitalizing a lone letter i. i don't care if everything else is lowercase, but sheesh give us a capital I algorithm.
  - battery_cowboy 7y ago
    I wish i had the option of turning off the ML autocorrect since it sucks but leave some basic features. Google is always all or nothing, it's fucking stupid. Like, i have to turn on my location history to give my wife my location in Google maps, no thanks, but it would be nice to share with her without that privacy busting crap.
    - teaneedz 7y ago
      For every product decision, there is some crusty adtech coke addled sleazeball asking if there's a better way to snort up more data. I'd also take a truly fixed and useable autocorrect solution over a larger Frankenstein camera any gooey applause riddled release event of a decade.

The first thing I do on a new input device is disable autocorrect for good. If you write regularly in three different languages, it's more a hindrance than a help.

magicalhippo 7y ago

Same, albeit just two languages. Also, in Norwegian we use compound words. So for example "garage door" is "garasjedør" ("garage" = "garasje"). The auto-correct on my Android hardly gets any of those right. I've noticed my friends who use auto-correct usually don't compound words, which can change the meaning of the sentence completely.

StavrosK 7y ago
SwiftKey generally does a good job with multiple languages, although it will sometimes replace an English word that I typed correctly with the Spanish word (which is spelled the same but has a stress mark) in an otherwise fully English sentence, with me unaware why it's making the distinción.
Ndymium 7y ago
I have two issues in Finnish with Android's (Gboard) autocorrect: inflection and language selection. In Finnish, words can have over a thousand inflected forms. Granted most of them are not used usually but every day I bump into a word that the autocorrect knows but when I add the inflection, it no longer recognises it. It tells me that it doesn't actually parse or "know" Finnish text, it just has a huge word list. The second issue is that it decides which language's suggestion to show based on the characters I've typed (since I have it set to both English and Finnish). Normally it shows suggestions from both languages but if I type a single ä, ö, or å, it never suggests an English word. This is unfortunate since I sometimes hit such a character by accident and I have to go back and retype the word from that point to get back the English suggestions.

Agentlien 7y ago

I use swiping on a Samsung phone and regularly write in three languages (English, Swedish, and Dutch). While there are some annoyances, I find it still speeds it up a lot as long as I change keyboard language (done by swiping left or right on the space bar) to match the language I'm currently using.

Cthulhu_ 7y ago

Same, it's causing more frustration than it's worth for me. Call me a luddite but I don't like things changing what I wrote. Keyboards should be more accurate.

battery_cowboy 7y ago

Wow, i never even thought to do this, but i just did and i haven't had such a nice time typing in forever! The instant i turned it off it started typing better. Before now, i always had misspellings due to autocorrect, but not anymore. It's amazing i never thought to do this. The only problem i have now is with the i not becoming capitalized automatically.

teaneedz 7y ago
right! you would think that maybe someone would have thought about capitalizing a lone letter i. i don't care if everything else is lowercase, but sheesh give us a capital I algorithm.
- battery_cowboy 7y ago
  I wish i had the option of turning off the ML autocorrect since it sucks but leave some basic features. Google is always all or nothing, it's fucking stupid. Like, i have to turn on my location history to give my wife my location in Google maps, no thanks, but it would be nice to share with her without that privacy busting crap.
  - teaneedz 7y ago
    For every product decision, there is some crusty adtech coke addled sleazeball asking if there's a better way to snort up more data. I'd also take a truly fixed and useable autocorrect solution over a larger Frankenstein camera any gooey applause riddled release event of a decade.