This comment was written using the voice-to-text feature. I will not be re-recording any of the sentences if it gets wrong because I believe that it will probably work well enough even though this is my first time using it. I'm lying on my back and barely even trying when speaking so most of my words are slurring together and yet it still seems to work. I am very happy that there's many different themes, and hopefully, if it doesn't give me any terrible crashes or troubles, I will be purchasing it within the next couple days. Shout out to the whole foodo team that worked on this. Thank you for the amazing keyboard looking forward to what you have next.
Maybe it was pride. A fair few people pronounce Futo (as in, Futo Maki) as Foodo. And the AI thought; "That is NOT my name! I will not answer to that!". :p
possibly, also i still use my OpenBoard Setup since i still dont know how to make the Ai models for Indonesian langiage on FUTO and that thing wasnt ibcluded and yes i dont bother edit the mistakes in comments and i use edit to add new context insteax
@@shiro3146 I mean, I get it from a "look at what it can do" perspective. But if you don't edit your comments on the internets in general, you'll be adhering to the "don't ask me to be more clear, just put more effort into trying to understand what I mean" school of typing. :p And at least in World of Warcraft, that gets you healed just a tiny bit too late. Oopsie.
I really enjoy using the keyboard but sadly, it crashes constantly for me 😿 (a few characters into typing in a field) I'm really excited to try it again in a little while once some of the launch bugs have been ironed out though!
Love the keyboard! Paid for it and Grayjay BC it's really refreshing to have great software made by people that it feels like I can actually trust! And Louie was right, even if software is open source (or source first) we should still pay for it so developers can earn a decent living. Happy to do so!
Have you checked out all the settings. You can download and import other models and dictionaries. Anyways, I love it too. It’s refreshing using something we trust and it works.
@@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 I've just downloaded the keyboard, and unfortunately swipe typing rn is shit. Back to gboard for now, but I have hope that in a month or two this keyboard will be usable for me.
Downloaded. Installed. Immediately, it is the best keyboard on my phone. Touch targets feel larger and more precise. I don't use transcription anything, but just typing on this keyboard is a far superior experience than any other on my Android. Thank you for making this product.
Agreed, it actually picks up the right letter that i am trying to type. I never used voice transcription before because I didn't want to be spied on, so I can't really compare to others, but that works surprisingly well too!
I wonder whether if enough people become aware of it, Google will just not show transcriptions to users any more. But they'll either store them anyway or in an "anonymized" manner.
Mhm, and we keep ignoring the fact that -everything- goes through our keyboard app. Seeing how Microsoft's Swiftkey is the second most pre-installed one after GBoard is like having two evils but neither being a lesser one :D
it doesnt cost them anything to offer the deletion. they only need to process it when it's created to add to their model of you and for training data. but they store it for your convenience, they've already converted it to training data the same day you sent it
@@onthefence928 The raw data can be used to train different models and used to learn features that weren't learned by weaker "architectures". 90s neural net would have barely gotten voice activation down while a model in 2030 will most likely be able to predict perfectly whether you can be aroused to a state where you will buy a certain product just from a couple words.
Whisper is open weight. You can easily run the model the keyboard uses on linux. The problem would be integrating it into the DE, but with GNOME working on portals global shortcuts for wayland, this should be easy to implement when that releases.
Alright, just tried it, and I love it even more now! The buttons are crazy big and easy to hit, and it feels like I can type way faster than on the default Samsung keyboard.
*Louis, congratulations on this release. Even in pre-Alpha this appears very capable and well executed for 'Droid phones. Now, please release this for Win7, 8, 10 and 11 users. Thank you also for revealing Google Takeout's decades long miscreant behaviour. Love ya'!*
I'm trying this keyboard out right now and it is goddamn awesome. Thank you FUTO, now this has convinced me to support you guys and even try out Immich!
I'm still using Microsoft Keyboard sadly Dutch, Turkish and German have limited support on Futo, but I'm still waiting for the full release. Please also add internet slag language to your dictionary as optional
Same here, would love to use futo but there's no support for Japanese sadly. Hopefully they figure something out in the future because it seems like a nice keyboard otherwise.
Love the keyboard, it works really well, and the voice detection in English is the best I've ever used. I just need to wait for a bilingual English-French training model to be able to fully switch to it, as we tend to use a lot of English words while speaking French so constantly switching languages is impractical.
Have you tried downloading the multilingual model and assigning it to french? Also apparently the multilingual model works as a translator when spoken to in a different language than the assigned one
I sent this video to my friends and explained Futo's mission to them. They are super receptive to the mission and they have all installed the keyboard. Again, thank you Louis and Futo. We need more of this in the world.
Hey Mr Rossman. I was watching a recent video of yours and you mentioned this great project at the end of the video and I stopped everything I was doing and came check it out. I was sick and tire of Google speech to text always needing an internet connection because sometimes I would go to the mountains due to my job where I have no signal but needed to take notes so the app became useless. Glad to say I felt in love with FUTO. it's exactly what computing tech ALWAYS needed to be: local, private and OFFLINE. Hopefully this project will inspire others or even yourselves to come up with a phone assistant AI that's also the same
Great keyboard!! Installed it a few days ago, when going through Louis's videos. When you say no internet connection, its really not connected to the internet!! Its really amazing to use!! Thank you FUTO team!!
Whaaaaaat this is so good! Currently typing and speaking with the FUTO keyboard. AMAZING JOB! This is such a live-saver for my mother who uses text to speech a lot and it never gets good results with google. Thank you!!!
Googles been doing this weird thing lately where Ill have text conversations on a whole different app, and whatever key topics I typed out using the google keyboard will then get recommended to me via ads or youtube shorts etc etc. (near immediately when I open youtube after talking about bicycles for example, Ill get a bike short when that bike convo was an isolated incidence). If anyone else has had similar issues would be nice to hear. I dont have anything other than a hypothesis as of now but would love to try this new keyboard.
A big bottom side "keyboard offset" is a godsend because I tend to keep pressing the space bar instead of the middle button. The keyboard gives a good first impression: sleek and has the everyday features.
This is already much better than any other open source keyboard app I've used before! It's very close to beating gboard, but not quite there yet... I'm looking forward very very much to seeing the further development! I will be trying to use this as much as possible!
Update: I'm still using the FUTO Keyboard app by the way! It's definitely already passable enough to be a daily driver! I do miss some stuff from gboard, but it's not enough to be a deal breaker.
I remember when I set up Google Keyboard and voice assistant years ago something about it recording them, and I actually went in and listened to a few after testing. I definitely didn't read pages of fine print. I'm already jaded enough to know that everything they can log and store, they do, and that this feature was simply allowing me to access these recordings. I hadn't thought about someone hacking into the account and accessing them, though.
This is a great idea in theory. However, I can see this keyboard working only if your language of choice is English and English ONLY since other languages have limited support. I hope English-only speakers do adopt it so it can continue to improve though.
This was a instant download for me, there're still some things I miss. Especially automatic light and dark mode, being able to change the width of the keyboard (for phones with rounded edges), and there should be more symbols in the menu that pops up, when you press the dot, but the keyboard itselft is really awesome!
Just installed it and it immediately feels like the best smartphone keyboard I've used in a long time! Seriously, typing hasn't been this good since Microshite bought SwiftKey, if ever! And I absolutely LOVE that it uses the standard android design (material?), because it doesn't look like an open source, pre-alpha keyboard, it looks like what the standard keyboard SHOULD look like! And also feels like the default keyboard should! 👍
This keyboard is extremely good at being a keyboard. Where Gboard excels compared to FUTO is swiping across the keyboard and getting everything correct. I love how I can use AMOLED black and turn off key borders; it might save some battery! Awesome work.
I've been using FUTO keyboard since the video on Louis' UA-cam. Using the mic from my s22 Ultra it can decipher my rapid talk, with large amounts of construction background noise. I find using a Bluetooth microphone, it shows the drastic difference in quality. I will remove my ear buds, prior to talking to text. Where it shines for me, is Google maps. Frequently going to country roads where it's more numbers and routes than names. I'm able to speak the address and have *so far* 100% accuracy.
I have been using it for a week or two. Its great! The only feature I'm missing is the ability to add multiple dictionary languages to a single keyboard layout. It's a bit of a pain to have to change the keyboard layout or manually change the dictionary used every time I switch between my native language and English, which I have to do constantly.
I have installed the keyboard and voice input from the FUTO F-Droid repo. Other than the setup being a bit buggy (menu back-action not working properly in some places), it seems to work great. I'll try it out for a bit and will likey throw some money at the project to support Alex and the rest of the FUTO projects.
Loving it, downloaded it after Louis made the vid and seeing the positive comments. Although I'm not someone who likes using voice input. Using the keyboard and the show symbol hints. Hoping for more themes or at least different kind of colors. Also, hoping you make a calendar app(for reminders as well) and notepad kind of app, something for taking notes. Thanks! Also, I haven't paid yet. Hehe Will do in the near future although it said error in the playstore.
A good start and I donated to support. However I'm making a lot more mistakes and finding the spelling correction to not be very helpful currently. Swipe typing also gets a lot more words wrong. I know that will all improve over time, but I can't yet use it as my daily keyboard so I'm switching back and forth. However speech to text worked very well for me. Thanks for releasing this and looking forward to using it more and more.
As a software developer, this warms my heart! Thank You luise and Futo Team for giving us software devs hope, that there might be a future, where I can build amazing software and not sell my soul to the devil! Thank You for fighting !!!
Keyboard is already good. The swipe typing is such an important feature. Just need to fix the layout (it's borked compared to google keyboard - empty symbol row and slash in the wrong place) and it'll be basically perfect
And we LOVE it! I'm using keyboard and voice. Grayjay also; FUTO software rocks!!! Thank you - let us know how to donate/purchase... we want to support you.
I do read the licence agreement - mostly - but some parts i dont understand and i still click (mostly) that i understand :) To be honest i read the licence agreements because when i was young you had to read the whole licence agreements and only alter you get "next/ agree"
I already paid for multiple copies of it and put it on everybody's phone because I liked the idea of a keyboard that doesn't need the internet to be functional. The voice to text is actually pretty damn good, even for somebody like me who has a Southern accent.
Installed it last week - biggest issue right now is that apostrophe and forward-slash are difficult to get to. Please put those in the pop-up from the period-longpress
Alright, like everybody else here, I'm putting in a voice comment just to see what happens. And you know what? It's actually working pretty well. So color me impressed. Great work, Louis and team.
Hi, I tested the futo keyboard, unfortunatly I can't resize it so I can't use it as a replacement to gboard, as gboard as a more effective key placement. I would love to test the futo keyboard again if is added the ability to resize the keyboard. In the meantime, I will be using Simple Keyboard, which is based on aosp, to replace gboard.
I had the anysoft keyboard but their development mentality and release cycle was aweful. There aren't many keyboards that can compete with gboard, but FUTO is on the right track. Hope we get more language suggestion models soon. Great job anyways!
The Futo keyboard is GREAT! Only issue I have is the draw to type is not up to par, it rarely detects the correct words but I have no doubts it will get better! Purchased :)
for those who are not English-first speakers: At least for Russian it works OK, but don't have tailored voice-to-text model, and swipe input is not so accurate as gboard. at least after 5 mins of use.
Not as solid in text typing as Gboard, but already very impressive. I don't really use voice input that much, however I really do type a lot. Important points for me so far: • Language switching is a bit too slow. I do switch between languages a lot, so it's critical to me • Customization is still limited. More options, like the latter size and custom themes, would be nice to have. I've seen that custom themes are coming, so it's definitely positive • Swipe typing works not that well. But only two weeks in use (maybe still not enough training?) • Advanced clipboard that Gboard uses is a game changer, so it would be nice to have something like it in FUTO Keyboard in the future. But apart from that... Great job! Already much better than almost any other general purpose open source keyboard. Keep it up :)
The whole idea of this keyboard is great and I'm sure it is going to get better in the future, but immediately it started lagging as I was typing and that is somebody you really can't afford to deal with on a day to day basis. I own a top of the line flagship phone, I'm sure keyboard software is not bottlenecking my hardware, so there is a lot of work of optimisation that needs to be done on this. I cheer for you guys, I will try again when this issue will get fixed!
Alright, giving this thing a shot. It will take a little bit of getting used to not seeing my own punctuation. The only thing I don't initially like is that every time I stop talking I have to hit the microphone again in order to get it to listen to me again. Often times when I'm talking I will pause to think in the middle of my dictation and this one will actually stop recording until I hit the microphone again if I pause too long. It does seem to be doing a really good job.
I definitely feel like the keyboard has a long way to go for it to go to be as good as Google, but it's better than any other non-Google keybpard I've used. The voice to text is absolutely amazing though.
I dont even use the voice feature bc you know roommates. But its so much frickin better than Gboard that really gets to all of your G spots. This gets all the way in.
This sounds great (though I don't use voice to text precisely because I don't like it going through the internet). I will, however, wait for you to include more languages. I don't much care about spanish voice to text (Though I just found the multilingual model thing) but I do need a Japanese keyboard... Hopefully you decide to add it someday, despite the amount of development it will need and the, most likely, small user base for it. Until then, I'll use it for english. EDIT: Spanish Qwerty has no Ñ!!!! I can't use a keyboard without a Ñ guys! :D Let me know when you update these things.
Definitely a great product pitch. Started using it. Though the glide typing is not that great now. I hope it gets better with the local AI. Checked the permissions, it only got one permission of "microphone", no internet/other permissions. Thank ya guys❤
Really loving this keyboard, the only thing that i have issue with is being able to enable split mode when im unfolding my foldable phone or using a tablet, or even just turning my phone sideways.
I haven't watched the video yet, I went straight to the play store to download the app and am already loving it! I tried paying for it and it says it's unsupported. My only thing so far that I'd like to suggest is to allow the same models that FUTO Voice has (normal, slow, slowest). I know I can just use FUTO Voice, but just wanted to throw it out there
Add the language switch, hotkey, and this app is pretty golden basically. PS. This comment was brought to you. by your app voice recognition (with minor polishing edits.)
I stumbled upon your channel and found your content interesting. But as with most youtube creators, i never actually took you serious as most channels blatantly spread false information. i still feel that way about youtubers as a whole, but you're no longer just another youtuber, you've actually made something which in my eyes has elevated you to an entrepreneur. ie, you're no longer just another TMZ host. Congrats, i hope you continue this path and do even greater things.
Google voice does add periods. But it only does so if you take a long enough pause and it has rewritten the sentence and decided that there should be a period. I have not noticed it insert any commas and I have not noticed it correctly recognizing when I use the word period.
Been using the keyboard from alpha and the voice typing from beta, both are fantastic products! Happily have paid for voice and grayjay so far and soon enough i'll pay for the keyboard too because it works well and respects me as a user.
I don't really care about the voice typing, but FUTO keyboard is by far the fastest keyboard I've used on Android. I also like that it's under a source-available license instead of being proprietary, which is super important for an application used to input potentially sensitive information.
A small tip on your website, please share the price before asking for the mail id. I am sure it is reasonably priced, but at the same time 'reasonable' is not necessarily 'affordable' to everyone 🙂
I believe Louis mentioned that technically you could be on trial "indefinitely", which means you don't really have to pay anything unless you want to. If people don't find it affordable to give a small donation, they could choose not do it at all.
I just installed it and trying it out. I know it's in early stages but I am Croatian and even tho I chosen Croatian language keyboard is still English (meaning, some letters specific for Croatian language are not shown, I have to long-press certain letters to get to them. Someone would like that, but someone like me prefers to have all letters shown, so an option to have those two options of displaying letters/keyboard would be great. Problem number two is that there is no dictionary or voice model for Croatian language. I don't know if I can contribute to making those without any programming skills but I would like to help. I don't have a clue how that's done, but if it's in the line of entering and translating words or reading them out loud, and it's possible to do it easily over the smartphone I'm willing to help. I do like the idea of privacy oriented software but ultimately it's down to how good it is. That's why I do hope it will be improved upon.
Unfortunately I am not longer searchoing for great mobile keyboard. "Unexpected" keyboard is the one that is the best. Swiping keys in certain directions allows for typing additional characters without "tap and hold and move over key you want to type". I mean there are of course things that can improve: It probably lacks enlarging the "hitbox" pf keys based on dictionary (If I am not wrong this is now on many popular keyboards) and also I would like to see keyboard that allows mew to switch modes so I can either type with swype (to write entire words) or the way I described above. Btw. It is great that It is possible to use futo speech tp text as standalone app
This comment was written using the voice-to-text feature. I will not be re-recording any of the sentences if it gets wrong because I believe that it will probably work well enough even though this is my first time using it. I'm lying on my back and barely even trying when speaking so most of my words are slurring together and yet it still seems to work. I am very happy that there's many different themes, and hopefully, if it doesn't give me any terrible crashes or troubles, I will be purchasing it within the next couple days. Shout out to the whole foodo team that worked on this. Thank you for the amazing keyboard looking forward to what you have next.
I love how the only mistake it made was misspelled FUTO XD
Maybe it was pride.
A fair few people pronounce Futo (as in, Futo Maki) as Foodo. And the AI thought; "That is NOT my name! I will not answer to that!".
:p
possibly, also i still use my OpenBoard Setup
since i still dont know how to make the Ai models for Indonesian langiage on FUTO and that thing wasnt ibcluded
and yes i dont bother edit the mistakes in comments and i use edit to add new context insteax
@@shiro3146 I mean, I get it from a "look at what it can do" perspective. But if you don't edit your comments on the internets in general, you'll be adhering to the "don't ask me to be more clear, just put more effort into trying to understand what I mean" school of typing. :p
And at least in World of Warcraft, that gets you healed just a tiny bit too late. Oopsie.
I really enjoy using the keyboard but sadly, it crashes constantly for me 😿
(a few characters into typing in a field)
I'm really excited to try it again in a little while once some of the launch bugs have been ironed out though!
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The local transcription feature on futo keyboard is cool
Love the keyboard! Paid for it and Grayjay BC it's really refreshing to have great software made by people that it feels like I can actually trust! And Louie was right, even if software is open source (or source first) we should still pay for it so developers can earn a decent living. Happy to do so!
Thanks! I want to build software I can give away free and make open source. People like you help the great stuff exist.
I've also purchased greyjay. Paying for futo nao
@@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 Grayjay's awesome!
I'll try out the keyboard, but yeah I also supported grayjay. This is the stuff that needs to exist.
I've been using it, and it's great! Never imagined that offline voice typing would be this good. Great job, guys.
Have you checked out all the settings. You can download and import other models and dictionaries. Anyways, I love it too. It’s refreshing using something we trust and it works.
I don't even know who Alex is, but I love the fact that he's calling this pre-alpha when the keyboard is already amazing.
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@@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 I've just downloaded the keyboard, and unfortunately swipe typing rn is shit. Back to gboard for now, but I have hope that in a month or two this keyboard will be usable for me.
He's a humble guy :)
Downloaded. Installed. Immediately, it is the best keyboard on my phone. Touch targets feel larger and more precise. I don't use transcription anything, but just typing on this keyboard is a far superior experience than any other on my Android. Thank you for making this product.
Agreed, it actually picks up the right letter that i am trying to type. I never used voice transcription before because I didn't want to be spied on, so I can't really compare to others, but that works surprisingly well too!
I wonder whether if enough people become aware of it, Google will just not show transcriptions to users any more.
But they'll either store them anyway or in an "anonymized" manner.
Mhm, and we keep ignoring the fact that -everything- goes through our keyboard app. Seeing how Microsoft's Swiftkey is the second most pre-installed one after GBoard is like having two evils but neither being a lesser one :D
it doesnt cost them anything to offer the deletion. they only need to process it when it's created to add to their model of you and for training data. but they store it for your convenience, they've already converted it to training data the same day you sent it
@@onthefence928 The raw data can be used to train different models and used to learn features that weren't learned by weaker "architectures". 90s neural net would have barely gotten voice activation down while a model in 2030 will most likely be able to predict perfectly whether you can be aroused to a state where you will buy a certain product just from a couple words.
Using the Futo Voice keyboard right now.
This is the best keyboard I've ever tried in Android. Now I need this keyboard voice input for my laptop with Linux Mint...
Yes, I want this on Linux.
Whisper is open weight. You can easily run the model the keyboard uses on linux. The problem would be integrating it into the DE, but with GNOME working on portals global shortcuts for wayland, this should be easy to implement when that releases.
@@tedzards509 keep this thread notified if any progress
Linux Mint OS is the Best bro!!!! Shoutout to Klemento and his team, on a job well done.
I had no idea FUTO was even working on this. It sounds bloody amazing, gonna try it right now.
Alright, just tried it, and I love it even more now! The buttons are crazy big and easy to hit, and it feels like I can type way faster than on the default Samsung keyboard.
*Louis, congratulations on this release. Even in pre-Alpha this appears very capable and well executed for 'Droid phones. Now, please release this for Win7, 8, 10 and 11 users. Thank you also for revealing Google Takeout's decades long miscreant behaviour. Love ya'!*
I'm trying this keyboard out right now and it is goddamn awesome. Thank you FUTO, now this has convinced me to support you guys and even try out Immich!
I'm still using Microsoft Keyboard sadly Dutch, Turkish and German have limited support on Futo, but I'm still waiting for the full release.
Please also add internet slag language to your dictionary as optional
If u use the keyboard frequently, most used slangs and unusual words will be added to personal dictionary automatically.
Well Swiftkey is beautiful
Heliboard is an open source keyboard that works well with multilingual input. I have no problems with english/german/french
Same here, would love to use futo but there's no support for Japanese sadly. Hopefully they figure something out in the future because it seems like a nice keyboard otherwise.
Love the keyboard, it works really well, and the voice detection in English is the best I've ever used. I just need to wait for a bilingual English-French training model to be able to fully switch to it, as we tend to use a lot of English words while speaking French so constantly switching languages is impractical.
Have you tried downloading the multilingual model and assigning it to french? Also apparently the multilingual model works as a translator when spoken to in a different language than the assigned one
me too! but ive yet to use futo since i rarely use the voice as an Indonesian dominant speaker who also use english,already installed futo though
I sent this video to my friends and explained Futo's mission to them. They are super receptive to the mission and they have all installed the keyboard. Again, thank you Louis and Futo. We need more of this in the world.
Hey Mr Rossman. I was watching a recent video of yours and you mentioned this great project at the end of the video and I stopped everything I was doing and came check it out. I was sick and tire of Google speech to text always needing an internet connection because sometimes I would go to the mountains due to my job where I have no signal but needed to take notes so the app became useless. Glad to say I felt in love with FUTO. it's exactly what computing tech ALWAYS needed to be: local, private and OFFLINE. Hopefully this project will inspire others or even yourselves to come up with a phone assistant AI that's also the same
Great keyboard!! Installed it a few days ago, when going through Louis's videos. When you say no internet connection, its really not connected to the internet!! Its really amazing to use!! Thank you FUTO team!!
Brosiv, I have my own Takeout Folder in my HDD, glad I'm not the only one that uses it.
This is a great keyboard, thank you futo for making good software.
Whaaaaaat this is so good! Currently typing and speaking with the FUTO keyboard. AMAZING JOB! This is such a live-saver for my mother who uses text to speech a lot and it never gets good results with google. Thank you!!!
Googles been doing this weird thing lately where Ill have text conversations on a whole different app, and whatever key topics I typed out using the google keyboard will then get recommended to me via ads or youtube shorts etc etc. (near immediately when I open youtube after talking about bicycles for example, Ill get a bike short when that bike convo was an isolated incidence). If anyone else has had similar issues would be nice to hear.
I dont have anything other than a hypothesis as of now but would love to try this new keyboard.
A big bottom side "keyboard offset" is a godsend because I tend to keep pressing the space bar instead of the middle button. The keyboard gives a good first impression: sleek and has the everyday features.
This is already much better than any other open source keyboard app I've used before! It's very close to beating gboard, but not quite there yet...
I'm looking forward very very much to seeing the further development! I will be trying to use this as much as possible!
Isn’t it actually a fork of gboard? Or am I misremembering something.
@@ThePC007 gboard is not open source and cannot be forked
Update: I'm still using the FUTO Keyboard app by the way! It's definitely already passable enough to be a daily driver! I do miss some stuff from gboard, but it's not enough to be a deal breaker.
I am switched to swift keyboard to FUTO and using it ever since your video came out , it feels great , i loved it
you mean from swift to FUTO right?
oh well anyways, im glad we collectively fix this keyboard must online mistakes
I remember when I set up Google Keyboard and voice assistant years ago something about it recording them, and I actually went in and listened to a few after testing. I definitely didn't read pages of fine print.
I'm already jaded enough to know that everything they can log and store, they do, and that this feature was simply allowing me to access these recordings. I hadn't thought about someone hacking into the account and accessing them, though.
This is a great idea in theory. However, I can see this keyboard working only if your language of choice is English and English ONLY since other languages have limited support.
I hope English-only speakers do adopt it so it can continue to improve though.
This was a instant download for me, there're still some things I miss. Especially automatic light and dark mode, being able to change the width of the keyboard (for phones with rounded edges), and there should be more symbols in the menu that pops up, when you press the dot, but the keyboard itselft is really awesome!
Just installed it and it immediately feels like the best smartphone keyboard I've used in a long time!
Seriously, typing hasn't been this good since Microshite bought SwiftKey, if ever!
And I absolutely LOVE that it uses the standard android design (material?), because it doesn't look like an open source, pre-alpha keyboard, it looks like what the standard keyboard SHOULD look like!
And also feels like the default keyboard should! 👍
Its amazing. Hopefully one day we can replace creepy Alexa and Google Assistant with a FUTO version as well! 🤞🙏
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For long time I was looking for this, and your presentation was great. I'm using it right now, thank you!
This keyboard is extremely good at being a keyboard. Where Gboard excels compared to FUTO is swiping across the keyboard and getting everything correct. I love how I can use AMOLED black and turn off key borders; it might save some battery! Awesome work.
I've been using FUTO keyboard since the video on Louis' UA-cam.
Using the mic from my s22 Ultra it can decipher my rapid talk, with large amounts of construction background noise.
I find using a Bluetooth microphone, it shows the drastic difference in quality. I will remove my ear buds, prior to talking to text.
Where it shines for me, is Google maps. Frequently going to country roads where it's more numbers and routes than names. I'm able to speak the address and have *so far* 100% accuracy.
I have been using it for a week or two. Its great! The only feature I'm missing is the ability to add multiple dictionary languages to a single keyboard layout.
It's a bit of a pain to have to change the keyboard layout or manually change the dictionary used every time I switch between my native language and English, which I have to do constantly.
This comment is literally the first sentence I'm typing using FUTO, and it seems pretty damn good! Well done.
I have installed the keyboard and voice input from the FUTO F-Droid repo. Other than the setup being a bit buggy (menu back-action not working properly in some places), it seems to work great. I'll try it out for a bit and will likey throw some money at the project to support Alex and the rest of the FUTO projects.
Loving it, downloaded it after Louis made the vid and seeing the positive comments. Although I'm not someone who likes using voice input. Using the keyboard and the show symbol hints. Hoping for more themes or at least different kind of colors.
Also, hoping you make a calendar app(for reminders as well) and notepad kind of app, something for taking notes. Thanks!
Also, I haven't paid yet. Hehe Will do in the near future although it said error in the playstore.
Thanks Louis, I love you and the team.
A good start and I donated to support. However I'm making a lot more mistakes and finding the spelling correction to not be very helpful currently. Swipe typing also gets a lot more words wrong. I know that will all improve over time, but I can't yet use it as my daily keyboard so I'm switching back and forth. However speech to text worked very well for me. Thanks for releasing this and looking forward to using it more and more.
As a software developer, this warms my heart!
Thank You luise and Futo Team for giving us software devs hope, that there might be a future, where I can build amazing software and not sell my soul to the devil!
Thank You for fighting !!!
Keyboard is already good. The swipe typing is such an important feature. Just need to fix the layout (it's borked compared to google keyboard - empty symbol row and slash in the wrong place) and it'll be basically perfect
One thing I noticed is the customization is very limited in futo keyboard. I think in feature updates they will add more customization.
I never use voice anything, but this seams like something people need badly.
And we LOVE it! I'm using keyboard and voice. Grayjay also; FUTO software rocks!!! Thank you - let us know how to donate/purchase... we want to support you.
I do read the licence agreement - mostly - but some parts i dont understand and i still click (mostly) that i understand :)
To be honest i read the licence agreements because when i was young you had to read the whole licence agreements and only alter you get "next/ agree"
I already paid for multiple copies of it and put it on everybody's phone because I liked the idea of a keyboard that doesn't need the internet to be functional. The voice to text is actually pretty damn good, even for somebody like me who has a Southern accent.
Installed it last week - biggest issue right now is that apostrophe and forward-slash are difficult to get to. Please put those in the pop-up from the period-longpress
And number row ive been too used to do that
Alright, like everybody else here, I'm putting in a voice comment just to see what happens. And you know what? It's actually working pretty well. So color me impressed.
Great work, Louis and team.
installed it and THANK YOU, finally a keyboard that doesn't want me to send my pixel 7a to the moon when I type.
I'm using the voice to text now. The only thing I would change is putting the numbers row above the letters by default. I give it a solid 9/10 overall
Hi, I tested the futo keyboard, unfortunatly I can't resize it so I can't use it as a replacement to gboard, as gboard as a more effective key placement. I would love to test the futo keyboard again if is added the ability to resize the keyboard. In the meantime, I will be using Simple Keyboard, which is based on aosp, to replace gboard.
I'm using it since a week and the voice recognition works very well for both English and German. Best keyboard on my phone
i was so skeptic randomly getting this recommended but then omg I am downloading this right now
I had the anysoft keyboard but their development mentality and release cycle was aweful. There aren't many keyboards that can compete with gboard, but FUTO is on the right track. Hope we get more language suggestion models soon. Great job anyways!
When futo keyboard support multiple languages at once, I'll switch for sure. Its pretty cool keyboard
The Futo keyboard is GREAT! Only issue I have is the draw to type is not up to par, it rarely detects the correct words but I have no doubts it will get better! Purchased :)
The open source Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good for when you need special characters.
for those who are not English-first speakers:
At least for Russian it works OK, but don't have tailored voice-to-text model, and swipe input is not so accurate as gboard. at least after 5 mins of use.
Not as solid in text typing as Gboard, but already very impressive. I don't really use voice input that much, however I really do type a lot.
Important points for me so far:
• Language switching is a bit too slow. I do switch between languages a lot, so it's critical to me
• Customization is still limited. More options, like the latter size and custom themes, would be nice to have. I've seen that custom themes are coming, so it's definitely positive
• Swipe typing works not that well. But only two weeks in use (maybe still not enough training?)
• Advanced clipboard that Gboard uses is a game changer, so it would be nice to have something like it in FUTO Keyboard in the future.
But apart from that... Great job! Already much better than almost any other general purpose open source keyboard. Keep it up :)
Using both futo keyboard and futo voice input and love it. Paid fot voice input, soon will for the keyboard !
Google never needed to send your voice clips to themselves. android was *always* capable of local voice recognition.
This is awesome!!! Thank you Louis, I will definitely try out Futo Keyboard
The whole idea of this keyboard is great and I'm sure it is going to get better in the future, but immediately it started lagging as I was typing and that is somebody you really can't afford to deal with on a day to day basis. I own a top of the line flagship phone, I'm sure keyboard software is not bottlenecking my hardware, so there is a lot of work of optimisation that needs to be done on this. I cheer for you guys, I will try again when this issue will get fixed!
The offline voice service works better than Google's one. Obviously, FUTO keyboard's best feature is the voice service. I am always for this.
Alright, giving this thing a shot. It will take a little bit of getting used to not seeing my own punctuation. The only thing I don't initially like is that every time I stop talking I have to hit the microphone again in order to get it to listen to me again. Often times when I'm talking I will pause to think in the middle of my dictation and this one will actually stop recording until I hit the microphone again if I pause too long. It does seem to be doing a really good job.
Cool. A little off on the swipe, but it'll get better I assume.
I definitely feel like the keyboard has a long way to go for it to go to be as good as Google, but it's better than any other non-Google keybpard I've used. The voice to text is absolutely amazing though.
I like the take on privacy. I love privacy. Especially if it protects me from ill-willed corporations.
It looks very good! Glad to see an open keyboard that isn't ugly
I dont even use the voice feature bc you know roommates. But its so much frickin better than Gboard that really gets to all of your G spots. This gets all the way in.
I have converted to Futo. Thank you for this great keyboard.
This sounds great (though I don't use voice to text precisely because I don't like it going through the internet).
I will, however, wait for you to include more languages. I don't much care about spanish voice to text (Though I just found the multilingual model thing) but I do need a Japanese keyboard... Hopefully you decide to add it someday, despite the amount of development it will need and the, most likely, small user base for it. Until then, I'll use it for english.
EDIT: Spanish Qwerty has no Ñ!!!! I can't use a keyboard without a Ñ guys! :D Let me know when you update these things.
Definitely a great product pitch. Started using it. Though the glide typing is not that great now. I hope it gets better with the local AI.
Checked the permissions, it only got one permission of "microphone", no internet/other permissions. Thank ya guys❤
Already installed and paid for my license. Way to go!
This looks great! Once it gets better multilingual support I'll probably switch
Really loving this keyboard, the only thing that i have issue with is being able to enable split mode when im unfolding my foldable phone or using a tablet, or even just turning my phone sideways.
Good presentation. I can't get rid of the feeling of irony when someone says: it makes "less" grammatical errors 💀.
I haven't watched the video yet, I went straight to the play store to download the app and am already loving it! I tried paying for it and it says it's unsupported.
My only thing so far that I'd like to suggest is to allow the same models that FUTO Voice has (normal, slow, slowest). I know I can just use FUTO Voice, but just wanted to throw it out there
Thanks for developing this. I'm using it now over simplekeyboard
Looks promising so far. I'd need a multi language mode and Japanese language support to really replace Swiftkey, but so far it seems good.
Haha! Finally a keyboard worth having that doesn't bork out!
- Sent using FUTO Keyboard.
holy fuck, this is what I've been looking for. I'm trying this for like a week then futo getting $5.
Add the language switch, hotkey, and this app is pretty golden basically.
PS. This comment was brought to you. by your app voice recognition (with minor polishing edits.)
I stumbled upon your channel and found your content interesting. But as with most youtube creators, i never actually took you serious as most channels blatantly spread false information. i still feel that way about youtubers as a whole, but you're no longer just another youtuber, you've actually made something which in my eyes has elevated you to an entrepreneur. ie, you're no longer just another TMZ host. Congrats, i hope you continue this path and do even greater things.
Google voice does add periods. But it only does so if you take a long enough pause and it has rewritten the sentence and decided that there should be a period. I have not noticed it insert any commas and I have not noticed it correctly recognizing when I use the word period.
So much respect for louis.
I love this new keyboard. I wish we can have spanish model in the future for voice input. Thank you.
There is, you have to import the multilingual model. My mom speaks many languages, and she said it works great, it can even translate for you!
Been using the keyboard from alpha and the voice typing from beta, both are fantastic products! Happily have paid for voice and grayjay so far and soon enough i'll pay for the keyboard too because it works well and respects me as a user.
There are only a few real famous/infamous heroes in the tech world.
And Louis is one of them.
No cap.
Swiping on the space bar should circle through the different languages
True, and/or a toggle button like Gboard offers
Just tried the alpha and im glad to say, finally a keyboard that feels right.
I don't really care about the voice typing, but FUTO keyboard is by far the fastest keyboard I've used on Android.
I also like that it's under a source-available license instead of being proprietary, which is super important for an application used to input potentially sensitive information.
23 days using the FUTO keyboard. It's awesome! I would like to pay for it but it's not supported on my build.
Typing on FUTO keyboard. It is nice, but needs customization features, especially for secondary functions.
A small tip on your website, please share the price before asking for the mail id. I am sure it is reasonably priced, but at the same time 'reasonable' is not necessarily 'affordable' to everyone 🙂
I believe Louis mentioned that technically you could be on trial "indefinitely", which means you don't really have to pay anything unless you want to. If people don't find it affordable to give a small donation, they could choose not do it at all.
$5
I like this app. I have already installed it and it works really great. Good job!
Been using Heliboard for a bit now and feel happy with it, but I'll probably give FUTO Keyboard a try eventually
Using the new keyboard to write this comment! Awesome job!
I just installed it and trying it out. I know it's in early stages but I am Croatian and even tho I chosen Croatian language keyboard is still English (meaning, some letters specific for Croatian language are not shown, I have to long-press certain letters to get to them. Someone would like that, but someone like me prefers to have all letters shown, so an option to have those two options of displaying letters/keyboard would be great.
Problem number two is that there is no dictionary or voice model for Croatian language. I don't know if I can contribute to making those without any programming skills but I would like to help. I don't have a clue how that's done, but if it's in the line of entering and translating words or reading them out loud, and it's possible to do it easily over the smartphone I'm willing to help.
I do like the idea of privacy oriented software but ultimately it's down to how good it is. That's why I do hope it will be improved upon.
Unfortunately I am not longer searchoing for great mobile keyboard. "Unexpected" keyboard is the one that is the best. Swiping keys in certain directions allows for typing additional characters without "tap and hold and move over key you want to type".
I mean there are of course things that can improve: It probably lacks enlarging the "hitbox" pf keys based on dictionary (If I am not wrong this is now on many popular keyboards) and also I would like to see keyboard that allows mew to switch modes so I can either type with swype (to write entire words) or the way I described above.
Btw. It is great that It is possible to use futo speech tp text as standalone app