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• black0ut@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use Unexpected Keyboard.

  It’s mainly made for programming or using Termux, and it makes some special characters more accessible than the classic keyboards. It also has a mechanic for typing special characters that makes it faster to type. And you can enable a compose key, which is something I love to see on a phone keyboard.

  Unexpected doesn’t have voice recognition though, but it can be enabled by installing a voice recognition app alongside the keyboard.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks for posting this! I’ve been looking to switch away from Swiftkey since MS bought it, and I love the easily accessible symbols on this (I do a bit of terminalling on mobile).

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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t use the voice type thing anyhow. i get its usefulness, but I often don’t like being perceived and speaking my texts aloud makes that difficult. looks like it does lots of other cool stuff though. does it do swipe to text? I like that a lot.

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• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i’ve switched to HeliBoard on my tablet!

  i wouldn’t call it a drop-in replacement (i don’t think it has swipe-to-type or voice recognition for example, tho i could be wrong) but for me it works even better

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  • Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks for the reminder, to try out Heliboard again!

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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    just downloaded it and am trying it out now. the autocorrect already seems better lol

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It does have swipe, but you need to download an extra thing iirc.

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