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[FUTO Keyboard](https://keyboard.futo.org/ https://keyboard.futo.org/) uses a local LLM for suggestions and corrections.

stavros 2y ago
Thank you!
brunoqc 2y ago
I like the idea of their keyboard a lot, but I wish they didn't use that license.
- bean-weevil 2y ago
  I don't like it either. I'm glad they started calling it Source First™ instead of incorrectly calling it open source though.
desireco42 2y ago
I use it, it is not very good, ie. it is pretty bad in terms of predictions. Love the mission and everything, just prediction is bad. I thought once it learns it will be better, but it's been months..
rpdillon 2y ago
FUTO is mediocre with swiping and predictions in my experience, but the 70M parameter voice model is stunningly good at 30-second voice to text. It has completely changed how I think about using my phone to draft prose - my first drafts are now often from my phone, snippets collected in moments when it occurs to me on-the-fly. It's been a really significant shift in the utility of my phone, and because it's installable through F-Droid, I have it on my Amazon tablet, and Boox reader. It's worked really well across all of them.
- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 2y ago
  They are aware of that, that's why they recently decided to create their own swiping dataset. As of today they have not released the updated swiping functions after training it again but it's in the pipelines and I'm really excited for it.
- stavros 2y ago
  Have you tried it recently? Their predictions/corrections were great for me.
  - bogwog 2y ago
    Ive been using it exclusively for months, and while I do like it, I ended up turning off predictions because of how bad they were. The swipe typing feature is also pretty bad, which is my biggest gripe with it since I love typing like that.
    - Groxx 2y ago
      Yeah, it's choosing extremely esoteric words for me, and clearly missing the beginning of many swipes (despite drawing the trail correctly). Almost unusably bad swiping imo. E.g. "so" with a nearly prefect straight line clearly drawn within both keys -> it chose "SSSI". What even is that? Or "drawn" there chose "Den", which is apparently a proper noun because ("cause") I didn't ("Ivy") hit shift.
cassepipe 2y ago
I must thank you for the recommendation. Works offline, not cluttered, good defaults, plenty of options and some clever one, voice input and prediction both work well for me, no subscription but instead you can buy a lifetime license to support them. Also it looks good and responsive. I love it.

stavros 2y ago

Thank you!

brunoqc 2y ago

I like the idea of their keyboard a lot, but I wish they didn't use that license.

bean-weevil 2y ago
I don't like it either. I'm glad they started calling it Source First™ instead of incorrectly calling it open source though.

desireco42 2y ago

I use it, it is not very good, ie. it is pretty bad in terms of predictions. Love the mission and everything, just prediction is bad. I thought once it learns it will be better, but it's been months..

rpdillon 2y ago

FUTO is mediocre with swiping and predictions in my experience, but the 70M parameter voice model is stunningly good at 30-second voice to text. It has completely changed how I think about using my phone to draft prose - my first drafts are now often from my phone, snippets collected in moments when it occurs to me on-the-fly. It's been a really significant shift in the utility of my phone, and because it's installable through F-Droid, I have it on my Amazon tablet, and Boox reader. It's worked really well across all of them.

Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 2y ago
They are aware of that, that's why they recently decided to create their own swiping dataset. As of today they have not released the updated swiping functions after training it again but it's in the pipelines and I'm really excited for it.
stavros 2y ago
Have you tried it recently? Their predictions/corrections were great for me.
- bogwog 2y ago
  Ive been using it exclusively for months, and while I do like it, I ended up turning off predictions because of how bad they were. The swipe typing feature is also pretty bad, which is my biggest gripe with it since I love typing like that.
  - Groxx 2y ago
    Yeah, it's choosing extremely esoteric words for me, and clearly missing the beginning of many swipes (despite drawing the trail correctly). Almost unusably bad swiping imo. E.g. "so" with a nearly prefect straight line clearly drawn within both keys -> it chose "SSSI". What even is that? Or "drawn" there chose "Den", which is apparently a proper noun because ("cause") I didn't ("Ivy") hit shift.

cassepipe 2y ago

I must thank you for the recommendation. Works offline, not cluttered, good defaults, plenty of options and some clever one, voice input and prediction both work well for me, no subscription but instead you can buy a lifetime license to support them. Also it looks good and responsive. I love it.