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I've had a similar experience with autocorrect on Android across multiple phones (lg, samsung) and keyboards (gboard, swiftkey) around the same time, I'm curiou

by cmehdy 3y ago

I've had a similar experience with autocorrect on Android across multiple phones (lg, samsung) and keyboards (gboard, swiftkey) around the same time, I'm curious to know whether it's just my own bias being validated or something happened. All predictions have become completely stupid (switching languages mid sentence when they were robust in the past, finding least consistent suggestion first, suggesting very random terms I've never seen like "Gaylene" when I swiped to write "happened", etc).

colordrops 3y ago
Same. I suspect everyone switched algorithms at some point because it was "state of the art", but actually a step backwards in reality.
- gleenn 3y ago
  Maybe they were optimizing battery or some other metric that wasn't necessarily prediction performance.
gkoller 3y ago
Typing on Android was perfect when Swype was still around. GBoard and SwiftKey were worse and seem to actually decline in accuracy till this day.
- cja 3y ago
  Swype was the best. Google should buy it and release it as the new version of Gboard
  - freeone3000 3y ago
    Swype was acquired by Nuance which was acquired by Microsoft. Its competitor, SwiftKey, was also acquired by Microsoft.
- kevingadd 3y ago
  I reset my gboard training data every 6-12 months since if I don't it seems to steadily get worse.
navigate8310 3y ago
I can vouch for this from personal experience. Back when I had my Nexus 4, the built-in keyboard surpassed the current Gboard by a long shot. I'm not sure what happened along the way, but the spell-checking capabilities of the completely offline and lightweight keyboard that Google shipped back in those days were miles ahead.
nprateem 3y ago
Same here. I get all sorts of nonsensical suggestions when swiping now that I never used to get. It changed a few years pre-covid, so yeah, 5-6 years ago. I assumed it was stunting to do with a list lawsuit against samsung or something

by cmehdy 3y ago

colordrops 3y ago

Same. I suspect everyone switched algorithms at some point because it was "state of the art", but actually a step backwards in reality.

gleenn 3y ago
Maybe they were optimizing battery or some other metric that wasn't necessarily prediction performance.

gkoller 3y ago

Typing on Android was perfect when Swype was still around. GBoard and SwiftKey were worse and seem to actually decline in accuracy till this day.

cja 3y ago
Swype was the best. Google should buy it and release it as the new version of Gboard
- freeone3000 3y ago
  Swype was acquired by Nuance which was acquired by Microsoft. Its competitor, SwiftKey, was also acquired by Microsoft.
kevingadd 3y ago
I reset my gboard training data every 6-12 months since if I don't it seems to steadily get worse.

navigate8310 3y ago

I can vouch for this from personal experience. Back when I had my Nexus 4, the built-in keyboard surpassed the current Gboard by a long shot. I'm not sure what happened along the way, but the spell-checking capabilities of the completely offline and lightweight keyboard that Google shipped back in those days were miles ahead.

nprateem 3y ago

Same here. I get all sorts of nonsensical suggestions when swiping now that I never used to get. It changed a few years pre-covid, so yeah, 5-6 years ago. I assumed it was stunting to do with a list lawsuit against samsung or something