Inaccurate swipe
Steps to rereproduce
Swipe these words and its frustrating that Efkey doesn’t consistently get it right
The words in the paranthesis is what EFKey ends up typing.
Word ( types weird)
Wrong
Let’s ( letters)
You ( Toy )
Plan ( Khan )
Me ( Jr )
Today ( that’s)
and ( AMD )
Once ( one ).
Forget ( first )
Change ( Chant )
Me ( new )
Advance ( absence )
Says ( days )
Consistently ( correct )
What I expected
Correct words as intended based on the swipes or sentence context.
What happened instead
Guesses incorrect words , impedes with constant correction leading to swapping out the keyboard to stock.
Discussion
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Thank you for your report. The swipe experience should have been better on 2.1.3.
The words you gave as examples do work for me. One thing to note though is that we need to be a bit more accurate with swipe compared to stock because EFKey is more unforgiving in terms of swipe trail. Please see the video attached from my tries of your words.
@kramanand I'm working on the swipe engine right now, and your list goes into the set I test every change against. One of these is a plain bug: AMD is on a short list of brand names swipe can produce, and it beats "and" when your finger drifts from n to m. That one will be fixed in the next update.
The rest I can't reproduce yet. When I draw your words on a simulated keyboard, 13 of 14 come out right, so it comes down to how your finger actually moves. If you want to help: go to the EF tab › Diagnostics, turn on the switch, and swipe those words a few times in any app. The export contains what you swiped, so stick to test words. Then tap the button that sends the export to me. With your real strokes I can see why "me" turns into "Jr" and fix the cause instead of guessing.
When I type individual words, the accuracy is pretty high. But even typing a sentence, EFkey seem to apply some algo to prioritize word selection which seem to make it less accurate.
When I switch back to iOS stock keyboard, I can feel the swiping being effortless , indicating there is something holding back EFKey to be this accurate.
The swiping itself expects very accurate reach to words and that’s not practical when you doing at speed. The stock keyboard has figured out a way to still get it right and that’s a step change EFKey should aim at.
This is fixed in the latest build, with the new engine. Swipe works very accurate.