Hey all,
I have been using a MyTouch Slide in addition to my Nexus One, and while I love my Nexus, I really have enjoyed the Dragon Dictation keyboard from the slide. I am attaching the .apk file for the app to this post. The .odex file is in the rapidshare link, as they would not allow me to attach it.
If anyone could work their magic on it and get it ported for froyo, I would be forever grateful!
The keyboard itself is not that important, it's the speech-to-text service that is park of the keyboard. IMHO, it's leaps and bounds ahead of Google's STT service.
Thank you!
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Have your tried Vlingo? to me its the same as the genius button on the mytouch slide 3g. I think Vlingo is better and you can progrom the search button on the N1 to be a shortcut for the Vlingo app.
http://www.androidcentral.com/voice-control-app-showdown-vlingo-vs-genius-button
While vlingo works very well as a program, the main functionality I am looking for from Dragon Dictation is the ability to use the voice recognition in any text entry field. The genius button on the mytouch slide is actually an entirely different program, that uses the voice recognition from the dragon keyboard (technically it uses Nuance, but so does dragon) to open apps, dictate messages, etc.
If someone could point me in the right direction as to how I could start working on this myself, that would also be helpful.
Thanks!
Anything? I promise it's very useful!
I like this idea bump
Did anything ever come of this? I'd love that to have this on Evo.
You can buy it in the Market as FlexT9. $5.
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can someone please tell me were to get the htc software keyboards from!!
i put 6.5 on my phone but there are no software keyboards but the windows 1..i need them please please help!
the default HTC keyboard is called "EzInput". Searching for that will yield you better results.
Also check out the new "FingerKeyboard" I find it works alot better then the default one. It is one I use currently.
Another keyboard I found worked very well was Spb Keyboard. It allows finger gestures for backspace and space. Helps alot.
Also PocketCM Keyboard is REALLY sweet if you can get it set up properly. This keyboard allows for "sloppy" typing. Using this keyboard, you don't have to press the keys exactly. It references your taps against a dictionary and is pretty accurate.
I like the look and feel of FingerKeyboard but find the way PocketCM Keyboard works simply amazing. Both keyboards allow skinning. A mix of the two would be amazing.
Hey guys.
I have 2 main questions...
1: I can't get alternative keyboards to work (I've tried ShapeWriter) I can "check" it so it's my chosen keyboard, but whenever I go to type anything, it just shows me the standard Android keyboard. Is this because I'm on a VGA screen? (Diamond)
2: Is Swype coming to Android for VGA screens?
Thanks for the replies!
Well I figured out how to get ShapeWriter working, but the copy of Swype I downloaded isn't working for me. I didn't know you had to hold down (rclick essentially) the text box to switch the input mode, but since i've done that, I have fallen in love with ShapeWriter... It's the same concept as Swype, but if I can get swype working, I'm sure I'ld switch to that.
ShapeWriter (free in the market) rocks... It could use a little larger dictionary with some common abreviations, and a little text speak. It doesn't even have lol in its dictionary!
But adding words is as simple as you can imagine. This keyboard is far better than the stock one...
bwahah
if you want swype(which i use on ALL my roms) google swype for mytouch3g
if not i know a warez site with it lol
So I found this out by accident and wanted to share. I don't know whether this was a feature on 2.1 as I've always used HTC_IME but here goes.
On the main keyboard drag your thumb up from the letters to above the preview bar and a whole row of letters and punctuation appears under your thumb. You don't have to hit the ?123 button anymore as a quick swipe up above the keyboard accomplishes the same thing.
This by no means gives me enough reason to move away from the HTC_IME but it's kinda neat.
I heart Froyo.
Jason Syn said:
So I found this out by accident and wanted to share. I don't know whether this was a feature on 2.1 as I've always used HTC_IME but here goes.
On the main keyboard drag your thumb up from the letters to above the preview bar and a whole row of letters and punctuation appears under your thumb. You don't have to hit the ?123 button anymore as a quick swipe up above the keyboard accomplishes the same thing.
This by no means gives me enough reason to move away from the HTC_IME but it's kinda neat.
I heart Froyo.
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You can do that on HTC_IME also. I'm in CM 5.0.7 test3 and works perfectly.
How? Where in HTC_IME can you get two additional rows?
HTC IME already lets you long press letters to get additional keys, I consider this far better because I can see them already and just have to press for a short while (customizable length in the HTC IME mod)
Awesome! Didn't know about that. Thanks
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Oh nice. Never tried that before so I wouldn't know if it's new to froyo or not.
However, I used to closed the keyboard by swiping down, and I find it extremely difficult to do in FroYo, I don't know what's wrong :-/
codito said:
HTC IME already lets you long press letters to get additional keys, I consider this far better because I can see them already and just have to press for a short while (customizable length in the HTC IME mod)
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I'm not saying HTC_IME is worse. In fact I very much like it. The only feature of stock keyboard I like is the way you change languages if you have selected multiple dictionaries.
That's awesome ! FroYo really made Touch Input usable for me.
Thanks a lot for the tip.
Also did you all notice the tab key when inputting fields. Saves a lot of time.
it's a neat feature, but i don't think it's any faster than long pressing a key. overall i still think google should make HTC_IME standard
Also on smart and better kb
Cool, thanks. I had never noticed that. Kind of like all the cool features there are on Swype that I just found accidentally.
I'm really happy with this latest version of the stock Android keyboard - it has multitouch! I was wondering why typing was suddenly way more accurate. The punctuation input is also a clever idea.
bcpk said:
Cool, thanks. I had never noticed that. Kind of like all the cool features there are on Swype that I just found accidentally.
I'm really happy with this latest version of the stock Android keyboard - it has multitouch! I was wondering why typing was suddenly way more accurate. The punctuation input is also a clever idea.
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What? Where did you get that keyboard from?
Cool, I didn't know this.
I also like in Froyo (wasn't there before), after you hit the space bar after a word, punctuation shows up where the suggested words would be.
The stock keyboard has had multitouch since 2.1, it's not true multitouch like the iPhone but you can press two keys and it'll pick them both up. It's only when they're close together that it might mess up because it could think you're sliding but that's just the crappy touch screen. I really wish HTC didn't cheap out with the touch screen..
I search to make sure I didn't post something already well known by everyone!
here is the link to download a free version of TouchPal, Chinese/ENglish for the time being...
http://www.cootek.com/_d/TouchPal.apk
I am testing it on Desire 2.1 it is working sofar.
Regards
SebSAB
Works on my Milestone, Chinese and English input but help is in Chinese
I loved TouchPal on PPC hopefully it's just as good on ANDROID.
support! im using it now.
I've never heard of it, but it looks somewhat identical to SwiftKey (which is still in beta though)..
Is it better than SwiftKey?
It's very similar to swift key... It's not like how it was on WM so I uninstalled.
Last I tried this, it was kludgy.. I loved TouchPal in WM, so hopefully it gets to that level.
Still using HTC IME mod myself.
It's definitely not as good as it was on WinMo, but it's still probably the best keyboard for Android now. I LOVE LOVE LOVE being able to SWIPE keys to select modifiers, rather than HOLD them for a second (which seems like an eternity)
Three main problems keep this one from being perfect:
1) It doesn't seem as snappy as it did on WinMo (using HTC desire now, was using Omnia II before)
2) It's missing the "insert space after completed word" function
3) It is completely missing the '#' key, which makes tweeting difficult sometimes
Oh, and it would be nice if it was skinnable too
Every key imaginable is under the number key keyboard, at least in the T+ keyboard I've always used TouchPal under. You just scroll up on the list. It's not exactly obvious, I actually found it on accident.
That said, TouchPal is a lot better than it was when I last tried it, but it's very laggy and is missing the voice search button, which as far as I know a keyboard just calls, not like they actually write code to do the voice transcription within the keyboard itself.. I know you can long-press the search button for general search, but I like to use the voice recognition in things like Waze to type for me while I drive.
It's 3.4M too. Sheesh. What would help is if it were possible to dump the keyboards I don't use, but I doubt that'll be possible.
I think it still has a ways to go, but it's better than it was. I always loved TouchPal in WM, but I think I'll still have to stick to IME for now. SwiftKey I still just don't like, it's like a pair of shoes that just don't feel right. Can't really say way, just don't like it.
Ah, I found the # key, cool! That's a pretty inconvenient place for it though.
On my device, TouchPal takes about 17M of memory, while SwiftKey takes 50M+. SwiftKey is much smoother though.
I've been using it today, it's working pretty good overall. One annoying thing is it switches to Full QWERTY after going to the number pad input, have to swipe it back to T+
It's prediction is rather good, probably not that much better than HTC IME but the buttons are much larger and easier to type.
I miss the amount of symbols directly available on the keys, however. It is slower to type things like _, which I use a lot
I have seen threads posted in the past about devs looking for requests and ideas on apps so they can have a project of sorts.
Would anyone be interested in developing this simple app?
On my old (circa 2004-5 samsung) flip phone, one thing I enjoyed about it was that when I typed, the phone would speak each individual letter I typed. Ex, if I typed "Hello", the phone would say "H" "E" "L" L" "O" as each letter was typed. And it was especially awesome the faster you typed!
Description:
An apk that replaced the keyboard tic's with vocals of the character during keypress.
I don't know how complicated this gets, or if root access is needed, or if such a thing can be implemented with the various keyboards... I would love to have this with the stock HTC keyboard on my EVO LTE...
What is the feasibility here?