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keyboard that can autocorrect to multiple languages at once? (kbin.run)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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google gboard was able to autocorrect both o my languages without me needing to switch the language. wondering if there's a keyboard that's open source and can do the same. on open board rn

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

HeliBoard is amazing, I recommend it! For those wondering how to enable simultaneous multi-lingual support (i.e. swipe or text in both languages and get predictions in both languages), I explained it in this comment chain, and included a screenshot for reference:

https://lemm.ee/comment/9410038

I tried both, AnySoftKeyboard was a bit too much effort and took me longer to type on unfortunately. HeliBoard was a nice replacement for SwiftKey for me though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

yup, this is the solution, as someone else pointed out too

działa dobrze :) (works well)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you ! I discovered that just now. 🤗

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

SwiftKey user here. Been around for 10+ years. Why did you switch to HeliBoard?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here actually, ~10 years too lol, since my first Android. SwiftKey worked very well (for me at least) but its owned by Microsoft, which gathers user data. I've been making a switch to FOSS apps and trying to degoogle myself in the recent months.

It was hard for me to leave SwiftKey due to other options being unsatisfactory / other keyboards always missing something, but HeliBoard did the trick for me :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Awesome. We should be friends, we have so much in common. I'll check it out. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Whilst Heliboard is technically capable of doing the job, the dictionaries are pretty lacking. If anybody has any recommendations regarding those? Swiftkey is pretty bad at recommendations and autocorrect, especially multi language, Heliboard is much worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

yes better dictionaries would be good

lmk if u find some pls