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rpdillon • yesterday at 5:53 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

FUTO keyboard (open-source, free) runs entirely on-device and has extremely good STT accurary, especially with the 70M parameter model. I've used it for years now and love it.

https://futo.tech/

Edit: As others have pointed out, this is not actually open source. It's source-available, which is quite a bit different because folks can't fork and distribute it as easily. The license also appears to be revocable and non-transferable, which makes it different from open source licenses.


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robertlane0 • yesterday at 6:10 PM

I'd classify it as "source-available" given the noncommercial clause in the license.

https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/blob/master/LIC...

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lrvick • yesterday at 6:11 PM

Futo only produces source-available proprietary software. They most certainly are not Open Source, though they unfortunately lied about this a lot before they got called out enough times.

https://github.com/futo-org/voice-input/blob/master/LICENSE....

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helterskelter2 • yesterday at 6:11 PM

I've used FUDO keyboard for a long time, but I never tried using the voice input, so I'm testing it now. Let's see how well it transcribes everything.

...Okay that was pretty good.