I'm so happy with your work Louis. Can we pay you in other ways that don't involve Google play? When I tried to send a donation for the voice recognition software, I was only given the Google Play store option to donate.
Download the APK from keyboard.futo.org and it will have a way to pay that goes directly without Google play or google as a middleman. Thank you very much for the kind words!
We respect that many of our core demographic may not have google play services/spyware on their phone. Feel free to sideload the APK from keyboard.futo.org to pay without Google middlemen. Thank you!
@@rossmanngroup I downloaded the software from FDroid before I read your reply. Does that have the capability of taking payment? I can uninstall and download the APK if needed. I like your business model. I run a tiny little side business (just me) that barely pays the yearly Internet bills and maybe a computer and it relies exclusively on open source, Linux, and low cost software. I hope one day that everyone can switch to an open-source and lower (more realistic) costing workflow. Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, and all the other subscription services that charge $1000/year for something that was open source 15 years ago is dead to me.
DEEPLY unimpressed. How does software developed with Louis *not* immediately autoerect "crapple" to "gargle my balls"? Otherwise, this is really impressive and I shall be paying for it.
Note you don't actually need to download the APK. Just go to the website and scroll down to the section where it says "Help Us Keep Running!" and click the blue button to be taken to the payment portal. No worries about where you downloaded the app from.
It's actually crazy how a multi-billion dollar company keeps your information and covers it by "Terms of Service" BS, while FUTO just comes out and gives you one of the most useful TTS i've ever seen
@@personzorz Its a simplistic, realistic testement on the fact that greed =/ innovation in any matter of worth. If these companies are not stopped, they will kill and torture for monetary gain more than they do now.
I'm typing this comment right now with the FUTO keyboard. I'm using the large model on a mid-range Motorola phone and it's working perfectly. No joke, this is legitimately better than Google's voice dictation, and I love the fact that I have to manually stop it so it doesn't stop early on me or sit there and keep listening when I want it to stop. The Google Voice dictation also has a bug where sometimes when I try to stop in the middle of dictating, it will just keep repeating what I said last on a loop. So this is literally better than Google's. And even with the large model, the wait time is lower and the punctuation is perfect.
It succeeding with "supercalafragilistic expialidocious" but failing with "Mary Poppins" was hilarious. I'm really impressed with Futo Voice, used it a couple times and it's way better than any alternative.
I know, right? It actually gets words correct the first time. This is going to be such a time saver. Now I can get behind AI as long as it's local and under my control. Not having ownership of data is actually my greatest fear for LLMs. This solves that problem. Wow.
It actually makes a lot of sense, there's not a lot of things that are supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.. like I was dropping that out real fast on Google's, The biggest problem is when you have a word that logically would be in place but ends up coming out as another word or back to backs... Like when you have two words that the pronunciation at the end and the beginning have the same sound or flow or letter.. And this is where personal training is such a boon, as, to make the system work properly and be able to do on the fly custom word pronunciations that aren't in a dictionary, It has to try to get everything syllable by syllable. What's frustrating beyond reproach, is that not only does the Google dictionary when using the browser to type something in to type something in immediately end up being able to figure out what you were talking about nine times out of 10 if you can't spell something... But I mean most spell check and grammar correction was able to do this back in like early days of word.. like I have no idea what the hell is wrong with the prediction algorithm but as good as it is at listening to a syllable by syllable thing which is probably where all it's training efforts have gone into, the actual logic there is almost nonsensical.. And like most things in in the modern age, The simple fine tune and customization from your own personal wishes wants and methodologies... Well this bridge is the gap, as it always has, and with large language models out there I mean you'd think the capability of this has gotten beyond even better than we were doing back when Microsoft started incorporating the dictation stuff from I think dragon? But we don't exist in that space, everything wants to be hyper targeted, but it wants to make sure that you compress into a box.. you don't get to personalize your software, we're going to make software that's personal, and then make sure that you have to meet at halfway because there's no other option for you so deal with it.. and become easier to integrate with, especially as we would like to either extort or solicit further financial and/or other potential monetary extraction from your interaction.. which should not be a choice. Honestly I think it's the same mentality that has video game developers that are cry babies when people want to turn off things like chromatic aberration, something that's been the bane of every camera operator for the last period well since photography was invented.. or run it at a custom aspect ratio, or just do basic things that are custom instead of doing exactly the thing that you're supposed to do and be happy with it... And software is is the whole point of software is it's tool or an interactive medium in a lot of cases.. and because of computer technology lol we can do things like large-scale macro and even micro personalizations without having to build out specifically for each individual.. Or.. we can approach it like a crazy person, and if we do that, do it maliciously in hostile compliance to prove the point that without your guiding hand over every aspect.. You're wasting everyone's time by wishing for these things that no one should care for.. and people don't anymore sadly.. people don't even expect to be able to do this anymore.. The hypernormalization is so utterly pervasive in modern culture it's it's actually irritated it's like actually in raging.. things that should not bother me that someone doesn't care about should not bother me.. But because of that, eventually not only does advanced functionality get left by the wayside but the idea of actually wanting something more than what you're given from a hyperconsolidated product stack that has long sense moved on from actual functionality as it's primary goal and is just trying to figure out a way to make that work with some sort of extractive value. And this can get even worse as people get less technically competent, the kind of advanced, not really advanced but the kind of manual controls and things like an editor software that are very important to have, now becomes a thing where the idea of that ends up being considered a negative, and while most people can be comfortable with the things doing everything for you, for those needing more fidelity or just wishing for it really when it should be a thing.. now becomes a dying trend. And at this point everything is so consolidated and so utterly focusing on something completely different than the actual service providing, or just the mentality of providing that service has completely gone into a weird space. All the thousands of hours are recordings that it takes, and often it just gets worse.. sometimes it gets better, usually after it got worse.. and then Samsung just went into share Insanity like... I feel like the Samsung speech to text API got locked up in Bobby's puzzle basement or something with Raven software and had things done, and just can't make thoughts anymore... It was a lot better 5 years ago.. But it would always get worse after a couple of weeks lol. And this is the thing, like this isn't new software, it just relied heavily on personal training and in the dictation.. and pretty much everybody that's used speech to text over the last few years, noticed a a massive drop in the quality between the 2015 to just up to the last few years.. like I would say Google maybe got better about a year ago, and took away The comma bug that I won't even say out loud for fear of bringing it back into existence.. which has me relying on ellipses and ironically it decided to take one of the periods away lol and now I have to try to go back to using regular commas and periods... Which is weird because speech pattern wants the ellipses.. But people can't read too good no more, so you throw curveball at them and then it's just like.. I mean shit just this amount of text is probably going to pop somebody's brain juice, and they don't even have to read it lol.
@@JackWse "I mean shit just this amount of text is probably going to pop somebody's brain juice, and they don't even have to read it lol." I didn't have to read it! 😭
The Undo button in this thing is a Godsend. The swipe typing is subpar but it'll get there. The ability to use any ML model for predictive text, autocorrect and voice input is incredibly powerful and liberating. Makes me feel like this is my device. Next target is Grammarly. Can't see that being much harder to do than what FUTA has already accomplished creating this keyboard.
That might be one of the first repos I would happily contribute to if they make it in Common Lisp, just like Grammarly. I understand the choice of language is just like choosing a tool, but I like this tool too much!
also the predictive suggestions. I don't know how, but Gboard's predictive suggestions are one of the main reasons I use it. It always knows what I want to type when I make a mistake, it's kinda scary
@@phoneywheeze depending on how long you have been using android/google(gmail) products, it has up to 20 years worth of emails/texts to scrape through for some people, it knows how you write. Getting FUTO to learn those patterns is going to be a CHORE, which is why there are so many complaints about the swipe-to-text right now because it hasn't had the time or development team to adjust for how much slop most people have grown accustomed to while using gboard.
And it's funny the pretend to care so much, that they forced an app which only has screensaver images to have a privacy policy. It's xscreensaver, btw, if you want to read the absolute poetry of the privacy policy they came up with
It is absolutely worth $10 to support FUTO and Louis. They are relying on the same system that built the beautiful world we inherited where individuals acted with integrity so most could be trusted to do the right thing . We systematically have scoffed at and scorned those who warned about the consequences of turning our backs on the moral code that built our civilization. Anyone who is trying to turn that around is worthy of respect and support. I don't use voice-to-text, but that's about to change!
Sadly, the problem only gets worse. I'm still waiting for the day Apple or company sues Rossman for libel. Don't laugh.. it's gonna happen, and it won't just be a threatening letter (or which he's received many!)
He just became one of my heroes because he solved a sore point that I've had to deal with for years. I have Dragon Naturally speaking on my computer and can do the same thing there, but even that is not as easy and seamless to use as this is. I'm looking forward to being able to manually dictate punctuation using the app. I'm weird though. I recognize that this is a feature that only an old fogey like me would appreciate.
I know, I've been saying this for the longest time (in my head because no one I know cares about privacy as much as they should). But seriously, this guy is the GOAT because he's the only one that is consistently trying to keep companies in check, is willing to go to court with them, and has (IMO), the best approach to it, by being fucking relentlessly angry at this kind of shit. LIKE WE ALL SHOULD BE. It may put off some people if he actually let loose his anger but I say it's NECESSARY. (I would pay to that) The shit these tech companies are getting away with is only gonna get worse if we aren't honest with how we feel about it. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. This message was typed on the excellent, open source FUTO keyboard.
He'd be a better politician than 9/10 guys in office. By better I mean actually making good decisions, maybe not better at bootlicking to get into a higher position.
I like this. Because it turns this premise of current "software as a service" on its head: "You have to use/do this and even if you paid for it, I will also collect your data and will do anything I want with that." Instinct tells you to oppose this and to either try to get it anyhow or not at all. But now here the idea is like: "You can screw us and say you already paid for it even if you didn't. But you can also be honest." Considering it seemingly is a good software, open source and under active development... The same reason to pirate stuff because big companies want to screw with me now convinces me that if anything is worth paying for - it is this. Although anyone who want to ignore it will find a way, I would feel a bit bad abusing this option. Because this software and Louis' presentation of it is honest of its limitations, NOT trying to do things behind my back and against my will / best interest, as well as a certain sympathy for Louis and his work and as I said it works quite well in contrast to other software that also requires you to jump through hoops.
@@ayoubthegreat The Facebook internet era trained people to be unethical in order to survive constant harassment by corporations. Louis is going to have a hell of a job convincing people to hit “purchase” when to so many the button is all but invisible.
Yep, Windows 11 pushed me right over the edge. I liked the GUI, hated the focus stealing and increasing number of clicking required to do anything. Although the clicks increasing has become an every OS issue of late. But at least my Kubuntu don't steal the focus!
My favorite thing about open source software is that if it ever pisses you off, you can go and fix what personally bothers you and pull request it Running into an issue in proprietary software and finding that not enough people care is just frustrating
I did the same but the entire PC died while converting over.i think I killed it. so I never tried again on a PC. F the PC it's dead to me. I can do everything on my phone now
disabled guy here: I have been using the Futo Voice to Text since it came out, and its been fing amazing. Already paid for the keyboard too since it restored the functionality I was missing from GBoard. Thank you for doing this Louis and please port the voice to text app to Linux.
@@JM.TheComposer For me, it randomly decided a few days ago that it would no longer include offensive words, even with blocking offensive words disabled in the settings. So far, Futo's KB respects my decision that I should be able to type whatever words I want.
@Tora58 you seem like the perfect person to ask for my blind friend that I help set things up for currently combination voice to text via Google but using Samsung keyboard and TalkBack & Select-to-Speak. Are we going to lose any of these functions if we move over? Also very strange that select to speak and talk back are two separate things inaccessibility menu but when you change the speed of the voice on one it changes the speed of the voice on the other so fast you can't listen to it then it makes the other so slow so you have to optimize the speed for one or the other. And keep changing the setting back and forth. So very annoying. Also found this lots of time when using the screen readers it will read everything on a help page except for the most important points. Like the options to get more help
Have also found to be able to set up all three of these to work in conjunction there is zero information you actually have to shut the phone off at certain intervals of the time of setting up the Press spacebar to speak using Google's function in combination with Samsung keyboard has anybody else ran into this? Don't get me wrong, I would like to leave all this garbage behind and move 100% over to FUTO keyboard! Asap. Just nervous because it's such a pain in the ass to get things set up if something doesn't work to get back to the configuration setup now. In the past, it has taken up to 2 days to get things configured.
As a Software developer and human being I want to thank you Louis and the great people developing software / apps with this kind of payment model, transparency and the goal to truly help people without milking them for all their money and information :). This is what we need in the field more of :D. Have a nice day.
I'm so glad you are doing the work that serves people. I just downloaded and purchased the keyboard. Best keyboard I've had in a long time. Great work to you and the team behind it!
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! Downloaded before even finishing the video, and after a little testing, I'm purchasing to support the mission. Thank you Louis for being a vocal advocate for the consumer and being an ambassador for companies like FUTO!
I downloaded this before I even finished this video, and so far I'm very impressed. At first i was like nooo no number line-- but there's the toggle. YES! Well worth ten bucks.
If it didn't have one, you can email and ask for it. We want to make this program better for you. You're the customer. Tell us what you want! keyboard@futo.org
I also downloaded the keyboard and voice input just 1 minute into the video. I've recently been trying to de-Google as many things in my life as I can, and my keyboard wasn't even a thought until Louis just reminded me I was using Gboard. Thanks Louis!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm already using it, and love it. The voice-to-text is a little bit slower than G-board, but it's still okay. I will definitely be paying for the app. I think the only thing I will miss is the integration of Google Translate.
I'm sticking to typewise offline for now as my keyboard, but goddamn, that voice input is absolutely amazing. Finally something good that is local. I'm SO gonna donate to you guys, amazing work!
Finding this Keyboard on the FUTO site a few weeks ago was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Instant purchase. Thank you so much- if our inputs are not secure, NOTHING is secure. This was critical to get right.
I've used Swiftkey for years for mainly 2 reasons: - trained dictionary - Good STT I always felt sick whenever thinking about the data I'm "consenting" to Microsoft taking. This is HUGE for people like me. THANK YOU.
That's exactly how I felt. Now I can get past that and live my own life with my own data and I don't need to worry about all of the things that I'm passing on just because I'm trying to share information with others.
Same man literally a few days ago I left a negative review and uninstalled that garbage. I purchased SwiftKey before it was owned by Microsoft. It was so much better. I happened to find FUTO keyboard and I'm loving it.
That looks excellent, and the FUTO organisation looks great, too. On a side note, for people who want local voice to text on Linux, Speech Note works very well, especially if you select one of the largest LLMs. I didn't try supercalifragilistic expedaliacious on it, but on my first test it got "eleventh-century hagiographer," which is pretty impressive. Installation doesn't pass the Stepmom test, but I'm not technical and I figured it out, so should be easily in range for Linux users viewing this channel.
Dude, I've been using a TERRIBLE keyboard just so I could use the FUTO voice to text (which is the best voice to text I've ever used), and this keyboard had no autocorrect and hasn't been updated in forever. I was just getting mad at this yesterday. THANK YOU for releasing this. When the app gives me the ability to pay for it I'm doing it right away.
Holy cow, I just downloaded it while watching and the voice to text is actually INCREDIBLE! It auto detects where to use commas, periods etc and you don't have to talk slowly and pronounce words in any specific way. Amazing
Insane, I literally spent the last few days trying to find a decent alternative to Gboard and I install and use this for 5 minutes and it's knocked everything else out of the park.
Thanks a lot lois, this is exactly what I searched for for a long time. multi-language support(just import, feature itself is awesome) and continued typing has rough edges, but you're doing already way better than every alternative i tried - That's really impressive.
@@Alex-Zone no it's a fork of the Android open source project (AOSP) keyboard (as far as I know). The problem is the license to use it is completely nonstandard and custom. Which is something you have the right to do, but I doubt the lineageos people would want to "waste time" getting a lawyer, paying them to look into the license terms, then negotiate with FUTO on a deal for usage. Something like this just doesn't scale when you use 1000s of different components.
I appreciate when he tells us of places that don't screw us over, unfortunately sometimes they change afterwards and we don't know until much later when it slips out.
You’re doing soooo much for the community. It’s nearing the time to begin a new video platform like RUclips but as a replacement for RUclips. If anyone can begin the process to do this it’s you!
I'm sorry for double-posting but you absolute legends I cannot believe how good this is, and I appreciate you listing it on the Play Store given it's a Google cesspool. I've gone through looking for a 'secure' keyboard every few months and just gave up because there wasn't anything... This is SO polished and full featured... The voice model is just icing on the cake! I have an ongoing theory that like the Rabbit R1 device people don't want to let the cat out of the bag that these voice models can just run locally with virtually no downside for 99% of users because it undercuts the business/surveillance model. Installed, defaulted, I -look forward to paying you because you deserve it- license purchased because you deserve it.
Oh my god. I just assumed I would NEVER be able to do voice to text on a phone for this very reason. You and your crew are breaking the mold, brother. Thank you!!
Sorry about previously asking for clarification on the Immich thing, I didn't expect an angry comment back lol. The "indefinite free trial on the honor system" exactly explains what I was trying to understand. That being said, I'd really like to see this voice recognition project eventually expand into a FOSS voice assistant to replace Alexa, Siri and Google Home. I use Google Home devices to control my smart home, and the lack of a voice assistant ecosystem is the main thing keeping me from fully committing to Home Assistant. The tricky thing is figuring out the hardware to do that, too. I saw someone suggest a "USB Poly Speakerphone" on Reddit, but there doesn't seem to be much conversation overall on fulfilling this need with FOSS solutions.
Hey Louis, I have been using FUTO's voice to text on top of the keyboard in Pre-Alpha for a while now and I love it! Advantages I really like about it are things like the speed of it being processed locally without the latency of going to a high traffic server, and how I can customize my own dictionary and not have to put up with the random and very oddly specific one use word suggestions by other users that an algorithm thinks is important for some reason. Thank all of you over at FUTO and keep up the great work! Practical everyday and quality of life improvements like these make everything else a little better to live with so I can focus on the big things in life. Cheers!
Your comment is spot on. The local processing of a high quality audio file seems to be a game changer for the Quality of the voice recognition. Wow. I am astounded.
Yeah, me too. The one thing I haven't gotten used to is that it automatically does punctuation instead of me saying the word. And also, I have to wait for him done talking for me to see what I'm typing, whereas G-board is doing it in real time. But those are pretty minor things and a lot of it is just getting used to the new muscle memory slash learning curve.
@@JM.TheComposerYes, for years I've been trying to get G board to stop turning the word cause into the word cuz. What's particularly cool about this app is that it automatically turns "caus' or cuz into because I'm so tired of g-board thinking I prefer to look like a fifth grader. But I do still occasionally switch back to G board if I'm doing something that's very time sensitive for work because there's still just enough hiccups with my learning curve that I'm not totally ready to go cold turkey off of G board.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 You are right, the punctuation took me some time to get used to as well but overall it has been a time saver during Pre-Alpha since I can go back and do a quick cut. The biggest drawback I have had so with it is if I pause mid sentence to change course on what I wanted to say. When I do that it would start a whole new sentence with capitalization and punctuation, but again a small trade for a big gain in overall speed now that I am actually using voice-to-text.
I just installed the keyboard on my phone, and damn. I do see it as a big plus that I feel like I can finally use speech to text on my phone, but even more so the actual design and feel of the keyboard is straight up better than what I've ever used on Android so far. Hats off for creating something truly great, that just beats out everything else available in every conceivable metric.
This is looking interesting! I've been looking for a good FOSS keyboard for a long while, after being a swiftkey user for countless years. I haven't really found great options so far. Hoping this will be the one!
Tried Futo (german language), it works great and since you are invlved I dont have any concerns regarding security / privacy. This were some dollars well spent. Keep up the great work!
Dear Louis thank you very much for taking this issue to task. This app is just what I've been looking for as I was aware of Google's privacy issues and the touchscreen keyboards are very frustrating to me as well. I will have to wait a little while to download I'm too busy right now but I'll try it asap and I saw the Email to compensate which is helpful over the other payment method. Please keep trying to improve all our lives as not everyone has the the technical know how or business resources to make better things happen. God bless.
The fact that you can create and upload and use your own models is truly amazing... I work in radiology and honestly all the dictation services are utter shit, I can just about imagine a future when an open source project like this implements professional/enterprise use such as radiology (not to mention the absolute scam prices these other services ask for... free software, pay for ongoing support etc). Great job, really!
You just made my year. I've been looking for an open source keyboard that had swype texting and worked with FUTO speech to text. Now I have both all in one! The only feature I want now is the option to resize the keyboard. But I can absolutely live with it how it is. Thank you for encouraging the dev to make this! Edit: You can resize the KB. It's perfect!
FYI, it’s not open source, but is licensed under the FUTO Source First License. In contrast to an open source license, it restricts commercial use and some kinds of modifications.
@@darcScorpion92 That is true. But the source code is available for community review. Which is very close, in my brain, to open source. I certainly don't have the skill or time that Alex (LatinIME) does to write my own, but I can review and compile code.
i have been watching your videos. and i do share your concerns. you are quite a Gem. the fact that you go out of your way to educate and offer solutions among other security related errands for this community, is something priceless. i just subbed,. be Blessed brother
I really like this. I hope we can get Japanese sometime in the near future. I would love to fully convert to this keyboard, but I will still have to use a standard keyboard when communicating with Japanese associates and friends. Please keep up the great work, your team is doing amazing things!
I am honored to have participated in the Honor program and have paid for my version, which I have been using extensively for several months now. Fantastic piece of software!!
Lots of channels don't show up until you scroll about 3 pages, unless you know the exact channel name and sometimes then it'll be the 4th page or more. Some say shadow banned or not suitable for any advertiser. Yet ads still roll at the start of what are apparently de/non -monetized videos. Testing out what search results me and a couple of friends can get with mundane google searches is interesting, to say the least.
Or actually take him to court, not just threatening to. Sickening how corporations are snowballing more and more into untouchable entities. We need a reset, and can't come fast enough.
Louis, to the people that tell you that all you do is complain, well, they are complaining. You are imparting valuable information and advice. The problem is not you. Rather, the problem is that so many heads of large businesses are tyrants. So for the people that are complaining that Louis is shining a light on those tyrants, my question is: How many tyrants need to piss on you before you welcome the pissing? If Louis shines a light on these miscreants, every day, the issue is not with Louis. The issue is the cancer in the business world that has spread as far as it has. We should be thanking Louis, and people like him, for standing up to one tyrant after another. He is risking law suits, and he is risking being shadow banned, or completely banned. He is putting his neck out there, and some of you actually complain about the valuable service that he is providing. Louis, there are always suck-ups to the tyrants. They are a tiny, tiny, yet vocal part of your viewership. Do not yield an inch to them. Their way is the way of surrender and defeat. They are losers. They are the reason that tyrants get away with so much. Keep up your great work!
This is a goddamn gift. Holy hell ive been looking so long for an actual solid alternative to gboard. Man i want to give you all a hug. Thanks a million!
Just paid for it 1 The voice recognition works well and 2 the swipe on the keyboard is pretty good too 3 you don't have to talk slowly and pronounce words in any specific way overall Excellent keyboard and voice input. Keep up the good work
Man, big corps sure hate your all's guts!! We love and thank you all for everything that you are doing for us "Tire Kickers. Thanks for standing up for us and our privacy.
Salute to you sir! I appreciate what you do! I am typing on the keyboard as we speak. Its great and I feel a sense of privacy. I'll get what I can take as far as privacy and you have knocked it out of the park. Great video and excellent keyboard.
Slightly off topic but has anybody noticed Google's voice to text became really shitty and like the last two years *in like (see what i mean?) Edit: This text to speech is fucking incredible. Perfect pronunciation and everything.
First, this has been my wish for soooo long, that I once spent a whole day looking for where to find a keyboard that doesn't spy on me. Imagine telling your father that you need a stereo speaker on WhatsApp (Encrypted as they claimed) and the next minute you search for something on google, you started seeing stereo ads. Not sure how much work need to be done, but I think getting proofread on this keyboard will be so impressive. I already downloaded this and set as my default keyboard! Thank you Louis!
Great job Louis and team! Keep it up, really happy to support projects like this! It would be great if you could put together a voice assistant or something of the sorts.
I just paid the $10 because this is valuable to me. I can't stand Google voice dictation ALWAYS capitalizing the first letter of random words for no apparent reason. I spend as much time fixing that garbage as I do dictating the entire message I was writing nearly every single time I use it. This is a god send. I installed only the voice app because my phone is able to select keyboards and voice dictation apps separately, so I just disabled the Google one and enabled Futo. I've used it thrice now and it's been spot on even with punctuation without me having to explicitly say comma and period. My only gripe is not being able to see the text as it's being dictated, but that's a tradeoff I'm willing to make to degoogle another aspect of my life.
I am exactly with you on that one. I don't know if I'm going to switch to SwiftKey as a keyboard, but I would prefer to have the keyboard work with FUTO, so I'll stick with FUTO and be the person who submits all the feature requests to try and polish off the rough edges so that it is just as good as SwiftKey.
@@jmks88I'm already using SwiftKey, and unlike Google voice dictation, it's been working fine for me for a decade now. Now it's paired with a voice dictation app that works too.
I appreciate the your method of monetization. I used GJ for several months when money was tight. When things got back to normal I purchased a licence. In a perfect world we would have less adversarial relationships between producers and consumers/users of goods and services and your model wouldn't have a need to exist. But we live in this world. So thank you for doing things this way
Finally, a keyboard that works, has the number row, and has the microphone icon ready by default. I downloaded this before I finished watching the video and must say, very impressive, so much better than the many others I've tried, and I didn't have to create an account or jump thru hoops; it just works perfectly! Thank you!
Amazing work! Replaced Gboard right away, and I am impressed how it guided me to download dictionary for other languages that it doesn't support yet. Once again amazing work! Keep up!
Futo voice is SIGNIFICANTLY better than Google voice to text. I've been using it for a while with swiftkey with no issues. Thanks Louis. Keep up the good work!!
Lol. from the GOOG pre-IPO days, always just meant don't try to be MSFT or AAPL. That mindset gave you Gmail, Chrome, Android, HTML5 and "search don't sort" "mobile first design" etc product differentiation
This keyboard is excellent! I was a bit skeptical to try it, but the voice to text works incredibly well and it has the added bonus of not logging every text I've ever sent! Great work!
DUDE!!! I love FUTO!! I downloaded it when I first saw this not to long ago and it's SOO GOOD!! I absolutely love it! it even understand when I ask a question and I don't have to say the word Questionmark anymore! I ended up getting the largest model and it's still fast and worth waiting a bit since it gets it right ALOT!! Thank you!!!
1) If you already paid for FUTO voice, we count that as payment for FUTO keyboard, so feel free to download FUTO keyboard from keyboard.futo.org & click _"I already paid"_ guilt free! 2) Payment is best done inside the application if you sideload the APK via the download from keyboard.futo.org - less google in your transaction is never a bad thing.
I'm so happy with your work Louis. Can we pay you in other ways that don't involve Google play? When I tried to send a donation for the voice recognition software, I was only given the Google Play store option to donate.
Download the APK from keyboard.futo.org and it will have a way to pay that goes directly without Google play or google as a middleman. Thank you very much for the kind words!
We respect that many of our core demographic may not have google play services/spyware on their phone. Feel free to sideload the APK from keyboard.futo.org to pay without Google middlemen. Thank you!
@@rossmanngroup I downloaded the software from FDroid before I read your reply. Does that have the capability of taking payment? I can uninstall and download the APK if needed. I like your business model. I run a tiny little side business (just me) that barely pays the yearly Internet bills and maybe a computer and it relies exclusively on open source, Linux, and low cost software. I hope one day that everyone can switch to an open-source and lower (more realistic) costing workflow. Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, and all the other subscription services that charge $1000/year for something that was open source 15 years ago is dead to me.
DEEPLY unimpressed. How does software developed with Louis *not* immediately autoerect "crapple" to "gargle my balls"?
Otherwise, this is really impressive and I shall be paying for it.
Note you don't actually need to download the APK. Just go to the website and scroll down to the section where it says "Help Us Keep Running!" and click the blue button to be taken to the payment portal. No worries about where you downloaded the app from.
It's actually crazy how a multi-billion dollar company keeps your information and covers it by "Terms of Service" BS, while FUTO just comes out and gives you one of the most useful TTS i've ever seen
*STT
It's amazing how much better it is than anything from the big companies. I'm speaking this comment right now on it.
IT’S BECAUSE YOU ARE THE PRODUCT BEING SOLD!!!!
Thanks for actually doing something about this. I appreciate you.
@@personzorz Its a simplistic, realistic testement on the fact that greed =/ innovation in any matter of worth.
If these companies are not stopped, they will kill and torture for monetary gain more than they do now.
I'm typing this comment right now with the FUTO keyboard. I'm using the large model on a mid-range Motorola phone and it's working perfectly. No joke, this is legitimately better than Google's voice dictation, and I love the fact that I have to manually stop it so it doesn't stop early on me or sit there and keep listening when I want it to stop.
The Google Voice dictation also has a bug where sometimes when I try to stop in the middle of dictating, it will just keep repeating what I said last on a loop. So this is literally better than Google's. And even with the large model, the wait time is lower and the punctuation is perfect.
i have the same experience.
It succeeding with "supercalafragilistic expialidocious" but failing with "Mary Poppins" was hilarious.
I'm really impressed with Futo Voice, used it a couple times and it's way better than any alternative.
I know, right? It actually gets words correct the first time. This is going to be such a time saver. Now I can get behind AI as long as it's local and under my control. Not having ownership of data is actually my greatest fear for LLMs. This solves that problem. Wow.
It actually makes a lot of sense, there's not a lot of things that are supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.. like I was dropping that out real fast on Google's, The biggest problem is when you have a word that logically would be in place but ends up coming out as another word or back to backs... Like when you have two words that the pronunciation at the end and the beginning have the same sound or flow or letter..
And this is where personal training is such a boon, as, to make the system work properly and be able to do on the fly custom word pronunciations that aren't in a dictionary, It has to try to get everything syllable by syllable. What's frustrating beyond reproach, is that not only does the Google dictionary when using the browser to type something in to type something in immediately end up being able to figure out what you were talking about nine times out of 10 if you can't spell something... But I mean most spell check and grammar correction was able to do this back in like early days of word.. like I have no idea what the hell is wrong with the prediction algorithm but as good as it is at listening to a syllable by syllable thing which is probably where all it's training efforts have gone into, the actual logic there is almost nonsensical..
And like most things in in the modern age, The simple fine tune and customization from your own personal wishes wants and methodologies... Well this bridge is the gap, as it always has, and with large language models out there I mean you'd think the capability of this has gotten beyond even better than we were doing back when Microsoft started incorporating the dictation stuff from I think dragon?
But we don't exist in that space, everything wants to be hyper targeted, but it wants to make sure that you compress into a box.. you don't get to personalize your software, we're going to make software that's personal, and then make sure that you have to meet at halfway because there's no other option for you so deal with it.. and become easier to integrate with, especially as we would like to either extort or solicit further financial and/or other potential monetary extraction from your interaction.. which should not be a choice.
Honestly I think it's the same mentality that has video game developers that are cry babies when people want to turn off things like chromatic aberration, something that's been the bane of every camera operator for the last period well since photography was invented.. or run it at a custom aspect ratio, or just do basic things that are custom instead of doing exactly the thing that you're supposed to do and be happy with it... And software is is the whole point of software is it's tool or an interactive medium in a lot of cases.. and because of computer technology lol we can do things like large-scale macro and even micro personalizations without having to build out specifically for each individual..
Or.. we can approach it like a crazy person, and if we do that, do it maliciously in hostile compliance to prove the point that without your guiding hand over every aspect.. You're wasting everyone's time by wishing for these things that no one should care for.. and people don't anymore sadly.. people don't even expect to be able to do this anymore..
The hypernormalization is so utterly pervasive in modern culture it's it's actually irritated it's like actually in raging.. things that should not bother me that someone doesn't care about should not bother me.. But because of that, eventually not only does advanced functionality get left by the wayside but the idea of actually wanting something more than what you're given from a hyperconsolidated product stack that has long sense moved on from actual functionality as it's primary goal and is just trying to figure out a way to make that work with some sort of extractive value.
And this can get even worse as people get less technically competent, the kind of advanced, not really advanced but the kind of manual controls and things like an editor software that are very important to have, now becomes a thing where the idea of that ends up being considered a negative, and while most people can be comfortable with the things doing everything for you, for those needing more fidelity or just wishing for it really when it should be a thing.. now becomes a dying trend.
And at this point everything is so consolidated and so utterly focusing on something completely different than the actual service providing, or just the mentality of providing that service has completely gone into a weird space.
All the thousands of hours are recordings that it takes, and often it just gets worse.. sometimes it gets better, usually after it got worse.. and then Samsung just went into share Insanity like... I feel like the Samsung speech to text API got locked up in Bobby's puzzle basement or something with Raven software and had things done, and just can't make thoughts anymore... It was a lot better 5 years ago.. But it would always get worse after a couple of weeks lol.
And this is the thing, like this isn't new software, it just relied heavily on personal training and in the dictation.. and pretty much everybody that's used speech to text over the last few years, noticed a a massive drop in the quality between the 2015 to just up to the last few years.. like I would say Google maybe got better about a year ago, and took away The comma bug that I won't even say out loud for fear of bringing it back into existence.. which has me relying on ellipses and ironically it decided to take one of the periods away lol and now I have to try to go back to using regular commas and periods... Which is weird because speech pattern wants the ellipses..
But people can't read too good no more, so you throw curveball at them and then it's just like.. I mean shit just this amount of text is probably going to pop somebody's brain juice, and they don't even have to read it lol.
@@JackWse "I mean shit just this amount of text is probably going to pop somebody's brain juice, and they don't even have to read it lol." I didn't have to read it! 😭
@@JackWsehey, I read it!
since the third last paragraph has share instead of shear
The amount of text didn't pop my brain juice but rather the punctuation
The Undo button in this thing is a Godsend. The swipe typing is subpar but it'll get there. The ability to use any ML model for predictive text, autocorrect and voice input is incredibly powerful and liberating. Makes me feel like this is my device. Next target is Grammarly. Can't see that being much harder to do than what FUTA has already accomplished creating this keyboard.
"FUTA" has indeed changed the game.
That might be one of the first repos I would happily contribute to if they make it in Common Lisp, just like Grammarly.
I understand the choice of language is just like choosing a tool, but I like this tool too much!
also the predictive suggestions. I don't know how, but Gboard's predictive suggestions are one of the main reasons I use it. It always knows what I want to type when I make a mistake, it's kinda scary
@@phoneywheeze depending on how long you have been using android/google(gmail) products, it has up to 20 years worth of emails/texts to scrape through for some people, it knows how you write. Getting FUTO to learn those patterns is going to be a CHORE, which is why there are so many complaints about the swipe-to-text right now because it hasn't had the time or development team to adjust for how much slop most people have grown accustomed to while using gboard.
Wait… you actually use swipe typing? lol I didn’t know people did
Google privacy policies are so predatory! It's unbelievable
And it's funny the pretend to care so much, that they forced an app which only has screensaver images to have a privacy policy.
It's xscreensaver, btw, if you want to read the absolute poetry of the privacy policy they came up with
You meant non-privacy policies buddy. ;)
@@underdoggoethe8971 they wouldn't be predatory if they were advertised as non-privacy.
“Your whole digital life is safe with us”
Google
You expect something else from CIA?
It is absolutely worth $10 to support FUTO and Louis. They are relying on the same system that built the beautiful world we inherited where individuals acted with integrity so most could be trusted to do the right thing . We systematically have scoffed at and scorned those who warned about the consequences of turning our backs on the moral code that built our civilization. Anyone who is trying to turn that around is worthy of respect and support. I don't use voice-to-text, but that's about to change!
This kind of thing is why I'll stand by saying that Louis Rossmann is one of the greatest people on RUclips.
Yeah.
Side note: I appreciate him detailing his involvement in the project.
Sadly, the problem only gets worse. I'm still waiting for the day Apple or company sues Rossman for libel. Don't laugh.. it's gonna happen, and it won't just be a threatening letter (or which he's received many!)
He just became one of my heroes because he solved a sore point that I've had to deal with for years. I have Dragon Naturally speaking on my computer and can do the same thing there, but even that is not as easy and seamless to use as this is. I'm looking forward to being able to manually dictate punctuation using the app. I'm weird though. I recognize that this is a feature that only an old fogey like me would appreciate.
I know, I've been saying this for the longest time (in my head because no one I know cares about privacy as much as they should).
But seriously, this guy is the GOAT because he's the only one that is consistently trying to keep companies in check, is willing to go to court with them, and has (IMO), the best approach to it, by being fucking relentlessly angry at this kind of shit. LIKE WE ALL SHOULD BE. It may put off some people if he actually let loose his anger but I say it's NECESSARY. (I would pay to that) The shit these tech companies are getting away with is only gonna get worse if we aren't honest with how we feel about it.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. This message was typed on the excellent, open source FUTO keyboard.
He'd be a better politician than 9/10 guys in office. By better I mean actually making good decisions, maybe not better at bootlicking to get into a higher position.
I like this. Because it turns this premise of current "software as a service" on its head:
"You have to use/do this and even if you paid for it, I will also collect your data and will do anything I want with that."
Instinct tells you to oppose this and to either try to get it anyhow or not at all.
But now here the idea is like:
"You can screw us and say you already paid for it even if you didn't. But you can also be honest."
Considering it seemingly is a good software, open source and under active development...
The same reason to pirate stuff because big companies want to screw with me now convinces me that if anything is worth paying for - it is this. Although anyone who want to ignore it will find a way, I would feel a bit bad abusing this option. Because this software and Louis' presentation of it is honest of its limitations, NOT trying to do things behind my back and against my will / best interest, as well as a certain sympathy for Louis and his work and as I said it works quite well in contrast to other software that also requires you to jump through hoops.
Saying "It's between you and your god" is the best way to encourage paying and building a true costumer trust. It's so humane!
Lots are not humane, sadly.
I felt that when he said it.
@@ayoubthegreat The Facebook internet era trained people to be unethical in order to survive constant harassment by corporations. Louis is going to have a hell of a job convincing people to hit “purchase” when to so many the button is all but invisible.
The inclusion of the word "your" really makes all the difference.
Honestly the way he said it was like walter white as heisenburg saying "say my name". Very powerful.
The sheer sincerity and simultaneous dissapointment in your face when you said "That is between you and your god." Loved it
From repair man to most based man alive
He's still a repair man. Just went from repairing Mac book to literally everything else
Head to Head competition with Keanu Reeves *Thumb Up*
@@FunkopotomisI know right? He's actually solved one of the things that have annoyed me the most about using smartphones.
@@Funkopotomis its where he started. I know that he still is doing it.
Naaa, he is acidic.
And he is going to melt all those evil companies.
While testing it out I noticed "FUTO" gets autocorrected to "future", made me smile a little. Seems like a very cool project!
Software pissing you off is a good enough reason to support software like this. I started my linux journey because windows pissed me off one day.
Yep, Windows 11 pushed me right over the edge. I liked the GUI, hated the focus stealing and increasing number of clicking required to do anything. Although the clicks increasing has become an every OS issue of late. But at least my Kubuntu don't steal the focus!
My favorite thing about open source software is that if it ever pisses you off, you can go and fix what personally bothers you and pull request it
Running into an issue in proprietary software and finding that not enough people care is just frustrating
I did the same but the entire PC died while converting over.i think I killed it. so I never tried again on a PC. F the PC it's dead to me. I can do everything on my phone now
I'm on the same page, the one and only issue I have with Linux is the unavailability to play my whole Steam's library, so yeah...
I like the idea of one time payment I agree this is the way it should be. Subscriptions are toxic.
This video should blow up. This is such a fundamental part of using a phone that gets overlooked in terms of privacy.
I bet it will be taken down as soon as it blows up. We'll spread the word either way.
@@KWPZ21 Taken down on Google Play? Then there's F-Droid and the APK :P
But seriously, I don't think it will get taken down :)
disabled guy here: I have been using the Futo Voice to Text since it came out, and its been fing amazing. Already paid for the keyboard too since it restored the functionality I was missing from GBoard.
Thank you for doing this Louis and please port the voice to text app to Linux.
What functionality is missing from Gboard?
@@JM.TheComposer none. Google just won't let you use it with Futo.
@@JM.TheComposer For me, it randomly decided a few days ago that it would no longer include offensive words, even with blocking offensive words disabled in the settings. So far, Futo's KB respects my decision that I should be able to type whatever words I want.
@Tora58 you seem like the perfect person to ask for my blind friend that I help set things up for currently combination voice to text via Google but using Samsung keyboard and TalkBack & Select-to-Speak.
Are we going to lose any of these functions if we move over?
Also very strange that select to speak and talk back are two separate things inaccessibility menu but when you change the speed of the voice on one it changes the speed of the voice on the other so fast you can't listen to it then it makes the other so slow so you have to optimize the speed for one or the other. And keep changing the setting back and forth. So very annoying.
Also found this lots of time when using the screen readers it will read everything on a help page except for the most important points. Like the options to get more help
Have also found to be able to set up all three of these to work in conjunction there is zero information you actually have to shut the phone off at certain intervals of the time of setting up the Press spacebar to speak using Google's function in combination with Samsung keyboard has anybody else ran into this?
Don't get me wrong, I would like to leave all this garbage behind and move 100% over to FUTO keyboard! Asap.
Just nervous because it's such a pain in the ass to get things set up if something doesn't work to get back to the configuration setup now.
In the past, it has taken up to 2 days to get things configured.
Im disabled and have been trying to find a good speech to text for so long. Thank you so much!
As a Software developer and human being I want to thank you Louis and the great people developing software / apps with this kind of payment model, transparency and the goal to truly help people without milking them for all their money and information :).
This is what we need in the field more of :D.
Have a nice day.
I'm so glad you are doing the work that serves people. I just downloaded and purchased the keyboard. Best keyboard I've had in a long time. Great work to you and the team behind it!
As long as we have people like Louis Rossmann, humanity might not be doomed.
There's more than you know. They typically either get drowned out or screwed though sadly.
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! Downloaded before even finishing the video, and after a little testing, I'm purchasing to support the mission. Thank you Louis for being a vocal advocate for the consumer and being an ambassador for companies like FUTO!
I downloaded this before I even finished this video, and so far I'm very impressed. At first i was like nooo no number line-- but there's the toggle. YES! Well worth ten bucks.
If it didn't have one, you can email and ask for it. We want to make this program better for you. You're the customer. Tell us what you want! keyboard@futo.org
@@rossmanngroup I'm unable to purchase, it say "payment is unsupported on this build"
You're a gem, Louis. Keep it up.
I also downloaded the keyboard and voice input just 1 minute into the video. I've recently been trying to de-Google as many things in my life as I can, and my keyboard wasn't even a thought until Louis just reminded me I was using Gboard.
Thanks Louis!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm already using it, and love it. The voice-to-text is a little bit slower than G-board, but it's still okay. I will definitely be paying for the app. I think the only thing I will miss is the integration of Google Translate.
I'm glad you added the text about if you have already payed for futo voice imput to click the already payed button. I appreciate that.
I'm sticking to typewise offline for now as my keyboard, but goddamn, that voice input is absolutely amazing. Finally something good that is local. I'm SO gonna donate to you guys, amazing work!
Thank you! You are always welcome to import other models , we are not restricting you to our own.
This is absolutely amazing. I love it.
My only issue with futo is I had issues with Android Auto @@rossmanngroup
Excellent keyboard and voice input... wouldn't have found it if I didn't see it on your channel. Keep up the good work for the little people!
"There is only one reason why you lost, Google. There's just one simple answer. You really pissed me off"
*Rouisu Rossmanu*
@@cymes82 They call him RoRo
I switched over to this, it's been so nice and fast. Have been enjoying this.
Thanks for making this, much appreciated.
Finding this Keyboard on the FUTO site a few weeks ago was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Instant purchase. Thank you so much- if our inputs are not secure, NOTHING is secure. This was critical to get right.
I've used Swiftkey for years for mainly 2 reasons:
- trained dictionary
- Good STT
I always felt sick whenever thinking about the data I'm "consenting" to Microsoft taking. This is HUGE for people like me.
THANK YOU.
Bro
So relatable
That's exactly how I felt. Now I can get past that and live my own life with my own data and I don't need to worry about all of the things that I'm passing on just because I'm trying to share information with others.
Same
Same man literally a few days ago I left a negative review and uninstalled that garbage. I purchased SwiftKey before it was owned by Microsoft. It was so much better. I happened to find FUTO keyboard and I'm loving it.
That looks excellent, and the FUTO organisation looks great, too. On a side note, for people who want local voice to text on Linux, Speech Note works very well, especially if you select one of the largest LLMs. I didn't try supercalifragilistic expedaliacious on it, but on my first test it got "eleventh-century hagiographer," which is pretty impressive. Installation doesn't pass the Stepmom test, but I'm not technical and I figured it out, so should be easily in range for Linux users viewing this channel.
Dude, I've been using a TERRIBLE keyboard just so I could use the FUTO voice to text (which is the best voice to text I've ever used), and this keyboard had no autocorrect and hasn't been updated in forever. I was just getting mad at this yesterday. THANK YOU for releasing this. When the app gives me the ability to pay for it I'm doing it right away.
Ducking awesome, typing this from the FUTO keyboard, will pay the "license", absolutely worth it
Louis is looking fresh today.
Seems like he’s having a lovely day.
edible indeed
he's ready for more latinas
I'd taste his thermal paste
Going on a date with someone he'll complain about in a year and a half 😍 lolol
Thanks, Louis, Alex, and company - this stuff is much needed.
Seems like louis having a lovely day
alright simmer down Mr. Bill Withers
Holy cow, I just downloaded it while watching and the voice to text is actually INCREDIBLE! It auto detects where to use commas, periods etc and you don't have to talk slowly and pronounce words in any specific way. Amazing
Insane, I literally spent the last few days trying to find a decent alternative to Gboard and I install and use this for 5 minutes and it's knocked everything else out of the park.
By FAR!
Thanks a lot lois, this is exactly what I searched for for a long time. multi-language support(just import, feature itself is awesome) and continued typing has rough edges, but you're doing already way better than every alternative i tried - That's really impressive.
This needs to be linageOS standard. Its one of the small things no one talks about. Great work
This can't be the LineageOS standard due to Licensing.
@@tschuuuls486I believe it's a fork of the lineage keyboard
@@Alex-Zone no it's a fork of the Android open source project (AOSP) keyboard (as far as I know). The problem is the license to use it is completely nonstandard and custom. Which is something you have the right to do, but I doubt the lineageos people would want to "waste time" getting a lawyer, paying them to look into the license terms, then negotiate with FUTO on a deal for usage. Something like this just doesn't scale when you use 1000s of different components.
@@tschuuuls486 oh ffs with the technicalities. The "Unofficial standard" ;) LOL
Man you're soo charismatic, the way you talk and how u present yourself.
I appreciate when he tells us of places that don't screw us over, unfortunately sometimes they change afterwards and we don't know until much later when it slips out.
You’re doing soooo much for the community. It’s nearing the time to begin a new video platform like RUclips but as a replacement for RUclips. If anyone can begin the process to do this it’s you!
I'm sorry for double-posting but you absolute legends I cannot believe how good this is, and I appreciate you listing it on the Play Store given it's a Google cesspool. I've gone through looking for a 'secure' keyboard every few months and just gave up because there wasn't anything... This is SO polished and full featured... The voice model is just icing on the cake! I have an ongoing theory that like the Rabbit R1 device people don't want to let the cat out of the bag that these voice models can just run locally with virtually no downside for 99% of users because it undercuts the business/surveillance model.
Installed, defaulted, I -look forward to paying you because you deserve it- license purchased because you deserve it.
Love that edit. I'd also love to contribute to their projects once I become financially capable lol.
Oh my god. I just assumed I would NEVER be able to do voice to text on a phone for this very reason. You and your crew are breaking the mold, brother. Thank you!!
Sorry about previously asking for clarification on the Immich thing, I didn't expect an angry comment back lol. The "indefinite free trial on the honor system" exactly explains what I was trying to understand. That being said, I'd really like to see this voice recognition project eventually expand into a FOSS voice assistant to replace Alexa, Siri and Google Home. I use Google Home devices to control my smart home, and the lack of a voice assistant ecosystem is the main thing keeping me from fully committing to Home Assistant. The tricky thing is figuring out the hardware to do that, too. I saw someone suggest a "USB Poly Speakerphone" on Reddit, but there doesn't seem to be much conversation overall on fulfilling this need with FOSS solutions.
Homeassistant has voice assistant options so I would belive it can use offline voice recognition. Didn't look into it though.
Thank you! I downloaded right away, I would have never imagined it had EVERY feature I was looking for! IT EVEN HAS THE SWISS-GERMAN LAYOUT
Hey Louis, I have been using FUTO's voice to text on top of the keyboard in Pre-Alpha for a while now and I love it! Advantages I really like about it are things like the speed of it being processed locally without the latency of going to a high traffic server, and how I can customize my own dictionary and not have to put up with the random and very oddly specific one use word suggestions by other users that an algorithm thinks is important for some reason.
Thank all of you over at FUTO and keep up the great work! Practical everyday and quality of life improvements like these make everything else a little better to live with so I can focus on the big things in life. Cheers!
The FUTO keyboard does have a blacklist for undesired suggestions.
Your comment is spot on. The local processing of a high quality audio file seems to be a game changer for the Quality of the voice recognition. Wow. I am astounded.
Yeah, me too. The one thing I haven't gotten used to is that it automatically does punctuation instead of me saying the word. And also, I have to wait for him done talking for me to see what I'm typing, whereas G-board is doing it in real time. But those are pretty minor things and a lot of it is just getting used to the new muscle memory slash learning curve.
@@JM.TheComposerYes, for years I've been trying to get G board to stop turning the word cause into the word cuz. What's particularly cool about this app is that it automatically turns "caus' or cuz into because
I'm so tired of g-board thinking I prefer to look like a fifth grader.
But I do still occasionally switch back to G board if I'm doing something that's very time sensitive for work because there's still just enough hiccups with my learning curve that I'm not totally ready to go cold turkey off of G board.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 You are right, the punctuation took me some time to get used to as well but overall it has been a time saver during Pre-Alpha since I can go back and do a quick cut. The biggest drawback I have had so with it is if I pause mid sentence to change course on what I wanted to say. When I do that it would start a whole new sentence with capitalization and punctuation, but again a small trade for a big gain in overall speed now that I am actually using voice-to-text.
You are my hero Louis. It feels quite rare to see a true champion of the people. Thank you for all you do. ❤
You and your team are awesome. I for one am glad people like you exist. I'll be giving this keyboard a go :)
I just installed the keyboard on my phone, and damn.
I do see it as a big plus that I feel like I can finally use speech to text on my phone, but even more so the actual design and feel of the keyboard is straight up better than what I've ever used on Android so far.
Hats off for creating something truly great, that just beats out everything else available in every conceivable metric.
This is looking interesting!
I've been looking for a good FOSS keyboard for a long while, after being a swiftkey user for countless years. I haven't really found great options so far. Hoping this will be the one!
I've always just used the stock AOSP one, works great for me!
Openboard is another alternative on the F-Droid store
I use it and it's nice, but to be clear: It is not F(L)OSS, the license is incompatible with both free/libre and open source definitions.
Tried Futo (german language), it works great and since you are invlved I dont have any concerns regarding security / privacy. This were some dollars well spent. Keep up the great work!
This is exactly the type of solutions we need. Keep up the good work.
Dear Louis thank you very much for taking this issue to task. This app is just what I've been looking for as I was aware of Google's privacy issues and the touchscreen keyboards are very frustrating to me as well. I will have to wait a little while to download I'm too busy right now but I'll try it asap and I saw the Email to compensate which is helpful over the other payment method. Please keep trying to improve all our lives as not everyone has the the technical know how or business resources to make better things happen. God bless.
Currently using this to type this comment. This keyboard is exactly what I was looking for!! Thank youu!
Thank you for a wonderful addition to the FUTO family of applications Luis. This is fantastic.
This couldn't have came at a better time in my life. I've been actively searching for Text to Speech.
The fact that you can create and upload and use your own models is truly amazing... I work in radiology and honestly all the dictation services are utter shit, I can just about imagine a future when an open source project like this implements professional/enterprise use such as radiology (not to mention the absolute scam prices these other services ask for... free software, pay for ongoing support etc). Great job, really!
You just made my year. I've been looking for an open source keyboard that had swype texting and worked with FUTO speech to text. Now I have both all in one! The only feature I want now is the option to resize the keyboard. But I can absolutely live with it how it is. Thank you for encouraging the dev to make this!
Edit: You can resize the KB. It's perfect!
It has this! On this keyboard, on the top bar, hit the eye button to change the these and scroll to the bottom!
@@remarkable4 Holy crap! Thank you. I thought that menu was just themes. Now I'm even more pleased and it's perfect.
FYI, it’s not open source, but is licensed under the FUTO Source First License. In contrast to an open source license, it restricts commercial use and some kinds of modifications.
@@darcScorpion92 That is true. But the source code is available for community review. Which is very close, in my brain, to open source. I certainly don't have the skill or time that Alex (LatinIME) does to write my own, but I can review and compile code.
i have been watching your videos. and i do share your concerns. you are quite a Gem. the fact that you go out of your way to educate and offer solutions among other security related errands for this community, is something priceless. i just subbed,. be Blessed brother
I really like this. I hope we can get Japanese sometime in the near future. I would love to fully convert to this keyboard, but I will still have to use a standard keyboard when communicating with Japanese associates and friends.
Please keep up the great work, your team is doing amazing things!
Seconding this, and hoping it keeps GBoard's kaomoji section. I'd sacrifice that feature to degoogle my phone more, but I'd be sad about it.
This is real value, Louis. Thank you for making the internet better.
at this point i feel we need to impose privacy on people just so they start to care a bit. great job from you as always
I am honored to have participated in the Honor program and have paid for my version, which I have been using extensively for several months now. Fantastic piece of software!!
Google is gonna start showing no results if you google Louis Rossmann😂 to cover their butts
Lots of channels don't show up until you scroll about 3 pages, unless you know the exact channel name and sometimes then it'll be the 4th page or more.
Some say shadow banned or not suitable for any advertiser. Yet ads still roll at the start of what are apparently de/non -monetized videos.
Testing out what search results me and a couple of friends can get with mundane google searches is interesting, to say the least.
Or actually take him to court, not just threatening to. Sickening how corporations are snowballing more and more into untouchable entities. We need a reset, and can't come fast enough.
Time to switch search engine I guess. And yes, there are good or maybe better alternatives than Google. 😊
Wonderful software.
Wonderful organisation.
You're doing it right 💪
Louis, to the people that tell you that all you do is complain, well, they are complaining.
You are imparting valuable information and advice. The problem is not you. Rather, the problem is that so many heads of large businesses are tyrants.
So for the people that are complaining that Louis is shining a light on those tyrants, my question is: How many tyrants need to piss on you before you welcome the pissing?
If Louis shines a light on these miscreants, every day, the issue is not with Louis. The issue is the cancer in the business world that has spread as far as it has.
We should be thanking Louis, and people like him, for standing up to one tyrant after another.
He is risking law suits, and he is risking being shadow banned, or completely banned. He is putting his neck out there, and some of you actually complain about the valuable service that he is providing.
Louis, there are always suck-ups to the tyrants. They are a tiny, tiny, yet vocal part of your viewership. Do not yield an inch to them. Their way is the way of surrender and defeat. They are losers. They are the reason that tyrants get away with so much.
Keep up your great work!
This is a goddamn gift. Holy hell ive been looking so long for an actual solid alternative to gboard. Man i want to give you all a hug. Thanks a million!
This has my full support love this app already!
Just paid for it
1 The voice recognition works well and
2 the swipe on the keyboard is pretty good too
3 you don't have to talk slowly and pronounce words in any specific way
overall Excellent keyboard and voice input.
Keep up the good work
Man, big corps sure hate your all's guts!! We love and thank you all for everything that you are doing for us "Tire Kickers. Thanks for standing up for us and our privacy.
Salute to you sir! I appreciate what you do! I am typing on the keyboard as we speak. Its great and I feel a sense of privacy. I'll get what I can take as far as privacy and you have knocked it out of the park. Great video and excellent keyboard.
Slightly off topic but has anybody noticed Google's voice to text became really shitty and like the last two years
*in like (see what i mean?)
Edit: This text to speech is fucking incredible. Perfect pronunciation and everything.
First, this has been my wish for soooo long, that I once spent a whole day looking for where to find a keyboard that doesn't spy on me. Imagine telling your father that you need a stereo speaker on WhatsApp (Encrypted as they claimed) and the next minute you search for something on google, you started seeing stereo ads.
Not sure how much work need to be done, but I think getting proofread on this keyboard will be so impressive. I already downloaded this and set as my default keyboard!
Thank you Louis!
You know it's serious business when he is outside and his cats are not around
Great job Louis and team! Keep it up, really happy to support projects like this! It would be great if you could put together a voice assistant or something of the sorts.
I just paid the $10 because this is valuable to me. I can't stand Google voice dictation ALWAYS capitalizing the first letter of random words for no apparent reason. I spend as much time fixing that garbage as I do dictating the entire message I was writing nearly every single time I use it.
This is a god send. I installed only the voice app because my phone is able to select keyboards and voice dictation apps separately, so I just disabled the Google one and enabled Futo. I've used it thrice now and it's been spot on even with punctuation without me having to explicitly say comma and period. My only gripe is not being able to see the text as it's being dictated, but that's a tradeoff I'm willing to make to degoogle another aspect of my life.
I am exactly with you on that one. I don't know if I'm going to switch to SwiftKey as a keyboard, but I would prefer to have the keyboard work with FUTO, so I'll stick with FUTO and be the person who submits all the feature requests to try and polish off the rough edges so that it is just as good as SwiftKey.
@@jmks88I'm already using SwiftKey, and unlike Google voice dictation, it's been working fine for me for a decade now. Now it's paired with a voice dictation app that works too.
@@jmks88 My reply got eaten. I hate this platform. I basically said that I use SwiftKey already and have no issues.
@@jmks88 I use SwiftKey already and have no issues.
@@jmks88 I use SwiftKey with no issues.
Downloaded, installed, used, paid. Thanks FUTO team, awaiting more apps like this!
"I might as the boomer." LMAO
Sometimes plays football, not so much
I appreciate the your method of monetization. I used GJ for several months when money was tight. When things got back to normal I purchased a licence.
In a perfect world we would have less adversarial relationships between producers and consumers/users of goods and services and your model wouldn't have a need to exist. But we live in this world. So thank you for doing things this way
Louis going for the WinRar payment solution.
Fantastic! It's always a pleasure to see someone who knows right from wrong at work.
I always love the dichotomy between an agitated man and the most comfortable chairs in the world
Finally, a keyboard that works, has the number row, and has the microphone icon ready by default. I downloaded this before I finished watching the video and must say, very impressive, so much better than the many others I've tried, and I didn't have to create an account or jump thru hoops; it just works perfectly! Thank you!
Someone, literally anyone: has a lovely day
Louis Rossman: "Not on my watch!"
You are a hero Louis! This is fantastic! Spreading the word!
Thank you.
Amazing work!
Replaced Gboard right away, and I am impressed how it guided me to download dictionary for other languages that it doesn't support yet.
Once again amazing work! Keep up!
Futo voice is SIGNIFICANTLY better than Google voice to text. I've been using it for a while with swiftkey with no issues.
Thanks Louis. Keep up the good work!!
Let's goo I alr got SwiftKey
Love the app and the custom models, the only thing i am praying for is adjustable height. Keep up the great work!
Remember Google and "Don't be evil"? No, me neither...
That doesn't mean anything, because some foolishly think actual evil isn't a thing.
They actually reduced the length of that saying by 33% because the word "don't" was deemed to be far too negative.
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Lol.
from the GOOG pre-IPO days, always just meant don't try to be MSFT or AAPL. That mindset gave you Gmail, Chrome, Android, HTML5 and "search don't sort" "mobile first design" etc product differentiation
This keyboard is excellent! I was a bit skeptical to try it, but the voice to text works incredibly well and it has the added bonus of not logging every text I've ever sent! Great work!
Blackberry still doesn’t let Louis in 😅
DUDE!!! I love FUTO!! I downloaded it when I first saw this not to long ago and it's SOO GOOD!!
I absolutely love it! it even understand when I ask a question and I don't have to say the word Questionmark anymore!
I ended up getting the largest model and it's still fast and worth waiting a bit since it gets it right ALOT!!
Thank you!!!
Yessir
Texas must agree with you Louis. You’re looking more relaxed! Keep up the good work!
So paying for voice pays for this too? I will happily pay for them separately. Be fair to me and, I will happily pay more
1) If you already paid for FUTO voice, we count that as payment for FUTO keyboard, so feel free to download FUTO keyboard from keyboard.futo.org & click _"I already paid"_ guilt free!
2) Payment is best done inside the application if you sideload the APK via the download from keyboard.futo.org - less google in your transaction is never a bad thing.
@@rossmanngroup Excellent! Thank you. I will be paying again to help support FOTU either way, but good info for those that may have been confused.
@@rossmanngroupMy country is not included. I have sent an email indicating this to the email provided
I paid for both. I wish I had a mountain of wealth to give more.
Got Futo and it's working great - paid as well, happy to support tools like this! Nice work!
So much respect for you and your team, Louis. Loved the honor system. I'll definitely pay for this app, once I get my hands on it.
A wise man once taught me the most important and often unused words in the English language.
Thank You!