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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

With swype, there's a whole new generation of typos - swypos.

Today I asked a coworker to check the robot. But the text said check the double. To attempt to decode a swypo you have to use a combination of guesswork and looking at the trace path for the suspect word to see if it might be close to your guess.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the last 5 years autocorrect appears to have got horrendous.

The amount of times it changes on to in or splits a word up in to totally different words 🀬

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[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Typos are usually easier to figure out than when people pick the wrong word in autocorrect.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah this isn't correcting auticorrect, it's disabling it.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Full manual baybeeeeee

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Big if truce

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't understand this. If I'm typing on a computer and I make a typo, I'll fix it. Why not on my phone with autocorrect? Either have it on and fix the "errors" (more like false positives) it makes, or turn it off. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈπŸ‘

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Naw, trying to fix the corrected correction for autocorrect is so annoying. Agreed with the computer scenario but with phone…… maybe if it was a flip phone, you have more con control with that, not a β€œsmart” phone.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?

I almost never have an issue with autocorrect because I type in either of two ways:

  1. Swipe typing, which is way faster than normal typing IMO. And on the occasion that there's a collision with the swipe motion, all I have to do is press the incorrect word on the text, and select the correct one from a tiny list of three most common words with that similar motion. Never fails, very quick.
  2. Typing each letter individually, but here I just start typing the beginning of the word, then I pick the suggestion from the top of the keyboard to complete the word without having to type the whole thing out. Also way faster than normal typing. Often using this method, I don't even have to start typing the word at all, or just a single letter, or a couple of letters is enough.

In both cases, correcting is very fast. Much faster than corrections using a real, physical keyboard, which you said you would do. So really, logically I have no reason to be annoyed with autocorrect β€” and I am also actually not annoyed with it. πŸ‘

I hope this might help someone.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I’m going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?

Possibly. I'm in that group, for what it's worth.

  1. Was unaware that was even a thing. As a long-time touch-typist, doing this never even occurred to me. And I know how to use Palm Pilot Graffiti input, so I'm admittedly embarrassed here.
  2. My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete's dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn't even a suggestion more than half of the time. I've struggled with this since iOS 3, and most recently on Android. It's never been very useful for me.

Then there is/was this feature that resizes key hitboxes on the fly, based on prediction. I'm unaware if that's still a thing, but at the time, it absolutely screwed with my thumb-typing muscle-memory in the worst way. Until I learned about this, I was convinced that I was just garbage at hitting the keys, then I started seeing it mis-register keypresses when I looked closely.

From all that I think I see the problem. These systems are compromises for a huge range of different users and communication styles. So it's going to be pretty mid for a lot of folks until (people like me) move to the middle where the software wants people to be. Were it not for the sake of clear, personalized, and expressive communication, I'd be on board with that.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. Was unaware that was even a thing.

It's been pretty great for single-thumb typing ever since it started being common, many years ago.

  1. My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete's dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn't even a suggestion more than half of the time.

Could you give me an example of this? Also which keyboard do you use as input? iOS/Android?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm using whatever the stock keyboard is on Google Android. Since we're on the topic, I'm open to suggestions. Especially if I'm going to re-train to swiping inputs.

It's hard to pin down anything specific as an example. If I had to sum it up, its usually where I want to use a long word with a common root for others. There could be eight or so different ways to go for auto-completion, but my choice is seldom in the top three.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I keep turning it off, but it always finds its way back on somehow. It pisses me off.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which keyboard do you use, out of curiosity?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was using Google's until recently. Now I am using FUTO.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ah yeah. I tried FUTO but I felt like it was less accurate than GBoard. Otherwise I would definitely use it. Great product for the price. 😁

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

I'm the type to disable autocorrect everywhere, so if I fuck it up, I fuck it up. :)

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I... don't think we can be friends.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

I still fight autocorrect because I don't want it to ducking correct me when I type duck. I mean duck. DUCK DUCK

[–] elvith@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I need more than just beets. Thanks.

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, bears and Battlestar Galactica too?

Beers and battle under the stars, sign me up. pistols, swords or massages? I'll bring snacks

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

So i use the swipe to make words, but when i hand type out the word, i do not expect auto correct to assist me, and it won’t… until i move on to another word, then It sneakily changes it.

Iβ€˜m in this picture and i donβ€˜t care anymore.

Autocorrect seems to have gotten worse? i remember it working better, but now I find it happily inserts incorrect words and leads to a false sense of security. I turned it off and just look for the red underlines to tell me I screwed up.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This 1000%

Also, if my voice to text program uses the wrong word. I'm probably not going to fix it. Obviously this has problems with homonyms, they're there and there for example. But also some great noisy environment issues

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

your dictate app seems to struggle with punctuation. If you send people texts w/o explain that you use speech-to-text, they might think you are struggling with basic grammar. Just a heads up

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The people who get direct texts from me have much bigger concerns then my grammar.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

ooh a selfburn, those are rare ^^

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