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akersten • today at 6:19 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> When I swing my finger around wildly it's making a best guess;

Alright, well some of us are actually deft at swiping text on our phones and would very much like the keyboard to type the word we entered.


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scosman • today at 6:51 PM

You're deft at using it well enough that their predictive engine can guess your intent. There's never been a swipe keyboard that isn't guessing. Your finger literally goes over many chars it doesn't use. The team building the predictive engine has to make calls balancing their accuracy vs failure modes.

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hocusPokeUs • today at 6:50 PM

Yall still swipe/type that much?

Yea it's not the best option in all situations but fixing voice dictation glitches is way less tapping over the long haul; fingers no go numb using it as much as possible by saving the tap tap tap for absolutely necessary moments

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