That’s a way of saying I’m using both, they’re not integrated.
When you install Sayboard, open it as a normal app, enable it in the settings following their instructions, then download the VOSK model following their guidance.
Heliboard should have a microphone btn that will open the default voice keyboard you enabled in the previous step.
Coming from Gboard, HeliBoard + Futo voice input is a pretty great. Outside of lacking emoji search and having an always visible voice key, it checks nearly all the boxes. However, it doesn’t check them all. Is there any reason why I would use this combo over Gboard with network connectivity disabled?
yes replacement and improvement, but unexpected keyboard is true innovation. I really like it but for diacritics and “special letters” its just not as good. to type â for example i need to hold a, then select the letter, whilst in unexpected keyboard I just need to swipe a upwards right.
oh I will say it again … those two apps need to have a baby 😅
Well that’s me switched over to Heliboard. I’ve auditioned a few but that hits the sweet-spot. I don’t seem to be getting next word suggestions yet though.
edit: the suggestions are starting to kick in now.
OK I’m trying heliboard now, interesting. It puts my Polish, German, English and Swedish keyboard together into one. Let’s see how it’ll work in the long run.
I’m especially impressed that it offers a Korean keyboard too, which I missed in all the other free alternatives. That was the main reason I stuck with the Samsung keyboard.
The multilingual support always predict words in all languages, even if you started a sentence in a specific one. And it will follow the typo rules of the first language in the list. For example, if the first language is French, it will add a space before the interrogation mark (French rule), even if you’re writing in English.
You mean Heliboard? How does multi lingual supporth get enabled? On Swype i was able to swipe in up to two simultaneous languages, and it would always figure the language my swipes were in. Can this be replicated in Heliboard?
EDIT: And I found it a minute after my post lol. Inside Heliboard, go to settings, find languages, don’t use system languages. Add your main language, then tap it and a “hidden” menu will come up. In it is the multilingual option. Tapping it will enable you to add another language to the same Heliboard language.
Lol sure i have that enabled. What i meant is, there were keyboards that typed in BOTH LANGUAGES SIMULTANEOUSLY. As in depending on the swipe gesture it would match to the best likely word of the best likely language. You could type each word on a different language and it would auto magically switch languages. And it was working beautifully. On good ole Swype keyboard, back in the day.
Yeah, that’s what I interpreted. That’s what I enabled with the steps I mentioned. I have the English keyboard enabled in Heliboard. I tapped on it, and added Polish in the “multilingual” section.
I both typed and swiped to właśnie zdanie (this exact sentence) i słowa w nim (and the words in it). Simultaneously.
Added is a screenshot for reference. If you meant something completely different (like letter gesturing?), sorry, I don’t follow.
After trying so many keyboards for years, heliboard with swipe + futo have finally made replacing gboard possible for me. I feel like it been a 90℅ replacement, a far greater degree than some of the good (but not quite there) keyboards currently available. I’ve literally only been using it for a week (for two languages), but I’m really really happy thus far. 😊
I just tried HeliBoard. Ditching Florisboard for now. I still think Florisboard has potential but it is undeveloped, and HeliBoard has everything you’d expect for a Gboard open source substitution. Let’s go! Finally we have our first open source keyboard alternative without drawbacks!
Go to advanced settings on your HeliBoard app and look for “Load gesture typing library” or similar. Go to HeliBoard GitHub and look for instructions on downloading the library.
Make sure the downloaded library architecture is the specified by the message you’ll see when you click “Load gesture typing library”.
It’s just 30 seconds and you’ll be gesture typing.
I’m in the same position because FlorisBoard will over time have all the features that HeliBoard has but HeliBoard has those already so I may switch too
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