My current keyboard/voice input combo and review of other keyboard apps

pizzadequeso

Now I only use Futo keyboard, it comes with voice input built in, i thought i had to get the separate futo voice app, but nope. Typing works great, and voice input is a bit slow, but it is fully office, so i think it is worth it for privacy.

Before Futo, i was using G-board, which is far more accurate and smooth. I got rid of it and kinda miss the experience haha.

I would rate 8/10 for Futo and 10/10 for G-board.

What do you think and what do you use?

mattachu

pizzadequeso

I tried futo and while it was good, it worked, and I liked the offline voice typing, gboard is currently better in my opinion. I use it with network permission denied and for now I'm comfortable with that personally.
But I haven't tried futo in a while, perhaps I'll get it and try it again.

I went hardcore get rid of Google everything for a while and you can honestly get open source stuff that will do the job and do it well enough but I started missing the polish of apps like gboard and Google maps which is so damn handy especially while travelling, not even apple maps is as detailed and up to date and apple has poured billions into that.

I primarily use an iPhone as a daily too so I'm used to things looking pretty modern and for the most part just working without too much bother so diving into some open source stuff when I first installed Graphene was an experience haha. Took a bit of getting used to.

Now days when I'm using my pixel I go open source and privacy first where I can but also make use of Graphene's sick permissions and if I find a really good app on the playstore that id rather use I'll just deny network, or use storage scopes or whatever to make it work for me. The true beauty of this OS. And if we get more cool permissions options in the future then it's just gonna get better. Can't wait.

I got assistant voice typing working on gboard too, where it punctuates for you and everything, I made a post about it if you wanna check it out.

mmobder

futo is great, there are few items, like "80%-working" words prediction (acceptable), but overall, including accurate offline voice recognition, it's very good KB

user2025

Fudo doesnt work inside private user zone.

becomeparmesan

Using Heliboard with Futo voice input for a while and quite happy. Tried whisper/whisper+ instead of Futo but the auto recognition of silence was worse so I went back.

About Gboard: do I need google play services for that?

WestQuester

Futon was the best non-googlenl keyboard I tried (I often use swipe typing) but I found it annoying to use. I tried Gboard with network permissions off and haven't looked back. I don't like using Google but it was a huge quality of life boost and it's more important to me in this case.

Badrou53

FUTO keyboard crashed on several occasions in my case because of MTE detecting memory safety bugs. Not sure if FUTO is a recommended keyboard in terms of security.