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Openboard has been doing well for me.

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FYI, there’s a fork of OpenBoard that enables swipe/glide typing! Literally was a game changer for me!

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This is the one I’m using. It’s fantastic.

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Does it do voice to text?

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Nope, not that I can see.

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The only FOSS speech to text I found for English is Dicio, and it’s not amazing, but it works.

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There is now an open source voice input you can install that works with open keyboard, Which as Louis rossman says in his video is actually a lot better than gboard’s
https://youtu.be/UCGaKvZpJYc?si=d3DMysA5Q_gMzQiU
Cc @refurbishedrefurbisher
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I’ve treid a few, I don’t think any of them are as good as Swiftkey sadly. Swiftkey just works, even Gboard is nowhere near as good as it.

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what’s something that makes SwiftKey better?

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The predictive engine and ease of entering a prediction. Quite often I can just hit space a number of times to complete a message.

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Wow, Openboard is a huge keyboard by default with lots of vertical key spacing. It also has two of my favorite Gboard features:

  1. Swiping left and right on the spacebar moves the cursor left and right.
  2. Swiping left starting at the backspace key will highlight text, then releasing the key will delete the highlighted text. However, it doesn’t pop-up the deleted text as a suggestion to let you undo it, in case you didn’t by accident.
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Wow, never knew of these gestures on gboard.

Thanks a lot for the info.

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Yeah its awesome. I remember moving cursor with volume buttons on old cyanogen, but this is lovely

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If you are a Florisboard user, there is a version with dynamic Material You themes here. It’s really good while we wait for the new versions with this official built-in

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Any FOSS keyboards with swipe-to-text? Always seems like they’re missing that

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Openboard fork with swipe typing feels the closest to Gboard imho.

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Thank you so much, I was using FlorisBoard but was missing the swipe!

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Uh… Florisboard does have that though. It’s in the glide typing section of settings

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