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I've been somewhat surprised by how rubbish the spellcheckers on phones are, and given what a [ on the surface of it] simple task it ought to be, I'm struggling to understand why it is done so badly.
Take "path" for example. I mistyped it as "oath" this morning and Samsung/Android gave me the following autocorrect options:
Oath
Oaths
Other
Others
Oats
Otherwise
Oat
Orthopaedic
Orthodox
About three of them seem about as likely as path, but the others are far less likely and all the long ones are just bollox. I mean how the hell can they think that I mistyped oath and actually meant to type orthopaedic?
FFS. The "p" key is right next to the "o". How can it not come up with that as a suggestion?
It's almost as if some cretinous Product Owner has come up with a user story that says " as a forum member, I want a spellchecker to be run that finds all the words starting with the same letter as the one I typed and containing a few of the others, to be offered as alternatives"
Rather than
" I want all the words with exactly the same spelling, apart from one or two letters, to be suggested, with priority given to words where the typed letter and suggested alternative are right ****ing next to each other on the keyboard"
/rant
Just rechecked my post and it changed "slmost" to "smooth". FFS. In what alternative reality is "smooth" a more likely fix than "almost"?
Over to you Cougar...
Get an iPhone, i love how i can start typing something like hello, but the second i hit the wrong key i end up sending hrsl ggf rt, honestly cannot fathom out how they not only don't offer the closest real word, but add in what looks like a random password!
Bare with it.
They put a lot of emphasis on the first letter being right and assume you've gone a bit wrong after that. That said if I type oath I'm offered oath, oaths and path on my android so maybe try another app (keyboard or browser maybe) although it might be a Samsung thing
dear autocorrect, i never want the word "ducking"
I am constantly amazed at how well my iPhone autocorrects despite the rubbish I type in.
My android phone appears to learn - so the autocorrect tends to suggest words I have used before
My computer however given half a chance will change my name to "Fiasco" I suspect one of you has tampered with it
Over to you Cougar…
😁
The spellchecker is part of the keyboard app, of which unlike Apple there are many, many options. You can have multiple installed even, and toggle between them. Swype and Google's own Gboard are popular choices.
Did you know the man who invented predictive text/autocorrect died on Monday
His family have announced the funfair will be held next monkey... IGMC
You can have multiple installed even, and toggle between them. Swype and Google’s own Gboard are popular choices.
Popular on Apple devices too.
Oh man, why oh why is the delete key so close to the M? Every time. Every text. Every single ****ing time my fat thumb tries to type an M, I delete the last letter. I mean, probably for a couple of years now. My thumb doesn't learn even though I beat it to within an inch of it's fat stubby life every time.
but the second i hit the wrong key i end up sending hrsl ggf rt
I think over time phones add common words you use to their dictionary - I only had to correct 'ducking' a few times before mine got the message for instance. Its useful for things like names, slang and abbreviations you use and stops trying to change them, but it also means it can occasionally pick up on some accidental text-mangling and add it to the phones vocabulary - I think it can also learn from received content as well.
At some point either me or my GF have accidentally typed both 'Thinkmitts' and the phrase 'Touche tinidie' and now both phones offer those up as the first options when autocorrecting - and they has carried over to new phones when we migrate data.
You should see some of the terrible suggestions the chat function on MS Teams comes up with!
Word is pretty good.
Teams - no idea what they're on. I mistyped "Wednesday" the other day and the only option is gave me as a correction was "lewdness". Yes Teams, that's exactly what I'm trying to type - "Can we have a meeting on lewdness".
🙄
No proboscis with the smellchecker hear.
I feel much the same way when I accidentally use the Bing search engine (which my work computer defaults to) instead of Google.
The amount of unrelated crap it comes up with compared to what I'm actually searching for is astounding.
I have two phones, work and personal. My personal phone is an iPhone and generally I don't have an issue with the spell checker. The work phone is a Samsung and its spell check is so appallingly bad that I have given up typing emails from it. Correcting the errors is also equally as difficult. It is worlds apart from my iPhone and is really ducking frustrating.
For all the faults of current auto-correct, I always look back with bafflement at the period of my life I lived in Stirling using T9 predictive text. Without fail, any reference to where I lived came out as "quirkgmi" which as far as I'm aware is not a word anywhere in the world. I could have lived with sterling, or starling or any number of other options, but no, it always had to be quirkgmi
i was out on my bike in a new area. i sent a text to my wife to let her know i was ok. somehow hello got turned in to help.
it may have been mentioned above, the original predictive text was developed at enron. it may have something to do with their poor accounting.
What keyboard app?
Change it to Google Keyboard - I find it more accurately gets my swiped inputs and spellcheck learns.
I found the Samsung keyboard both cramped and erratic.
As @maccruiskeen says, predictive text relies on it being used a lot and when it gives several different suggestions above the keyboard you choose the one you need, or if it hasn’t provided a suitable word, keep typing until the word is complete. It’s sometimes spooky just how often it gets the next word right in even quite complicated contexts.
If I’m tapping away and not paying attention to suggestions it provides, I’ll sometimes get an error. As I was typing that last bit, “ I’ll sometimes get an…” I was going to put “incorrect word” but it suggested ’error’, so I went with that.
It has to be taught, just like a human has to learn words, how to spell them, and how to use them in proper context.
Using gboard. Frequently I'll hit s instead of a. So why oh why can't it understand that an s on it's own makes no sense. Baffling.
It's s mystery.
My Android phone is infinitely better than this iPad. N astemp at predicament textt.
I keep autocorrect turned off now, since my phone repeatedly tried to correct “sister” to “dister” and “Vicky” to “Cocky” or “Bucky”
Why my phone keeps thinking I want to type ducking aunt is beyond me...