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[WIP] Advanced Keyboard

While testing Saera I have had to type things in over and over, and I have come to realize that the default Sailfish OS keyboard is...not as feature-complete as some other phones. So, I want to remedy that.

I am working on a keyboard that will bring Swype-style input and voice input to Sailfish OS. Currently I have implemented voice input.

Here is a screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/HlQ2Md1.png

And a video demonstration:

http://i.imgur.com/CmNtagK.png

I have not yet got dictation working in Julius, so this does send voice over the Internet; I hope to add local recognition in the future.

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Update: Swipe input is working...kind of. Right now it's all happening in QML, so it takes a second or so per word. Also there's no context processing, so it's likely to suggest uncommon words if it thinks they're closer (for example, putting "abs" instead of "and").

http://i.imgur.com/CaGOlPt.jpg

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is there rpm releases of okboard available? seems repository does not contain dictionaries, and in can't be compiled without it.

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I never found any, maybe we can ask the developer?

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I tried to compile okboard a few weeks ago, but didn't have any time (or experience) really, just couldn't sleep (seems to be my main sailfish-timeframe).
I did not get anywhere, especially getting a corpus to build, but I started documenting what I did, let's hope anything in there helps anyone ;)

I used ubuntu.

get sources (I got an error, but it worked when I tried again)

Code:

        git clone http://git.tuxfamily.org/okboard/okb-engine.git

        git clone http://git.tuxfamily.org/okboard/okb-keyboard.git

follow directions in okb-keyboard readme to set up your development environment. It's not much work if you already have an sdk running.
as mersdk I had to install aspell as well…

Code:

sudo zypper install aspell

LANGUAGES
install dependencies:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libzip2 python3-dev qt5-qmake

get languages (corpora files):
from http://corpora2.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html

repackage those (unpack, rename the folder to corpus-[LANG] and compress as .tar.bz2) – I think this is incorrect, I just guessed!

remove unwanted language files lang-[LANGUAGE] from the db folder
i just copied my corpus-*.tar.bz2 files there as well and

Code:

        cd okb-engine/db

        mkdir workdir

        export CORPUS_DIR=./

        export WORK_DIR=./workdir

        ./build.sh

[edit:]I remember changing something about the available language files in source as well, but did not seem to write that down[/edit]

Asking the dev would be a sensible solution, me thinks. ;)

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Is it possible to add BB10 style swipe-up gesture to chose word?

Like this https://youtu.be/s6iNAeXson8?t=46

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Originally Posted by The Wizard of Huz (Post 1492193)

Is it possible to add BB10 style swipe-up gesture to chose word?

Like this https://youtu.be/s6iNAeXson8?t=46

It's possible in theory. There's just two problems: 1) I'd need some sort of prediction model trained on smartphone typing to be able to make good suggestions (although I will probably need that anyway to improve swipe), and 2) there are might be some words that that gesture would interfere with - though probably not many, the only one I can see for a QWERTY keyboard would be "Lo" and that's a pretty rarely used word.

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velox: I did not have any luck with okboard either. That's part of the reason I'm trying to have no external dependencies for Advanced Keyboard.

Update on general progress: I improved the lookup system - lookups are now faster by a factor of 10, fast enough to not slow down typing anymore.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by taixzo (Post 1492206)

Update on general progress: I improved the lookup system - lookups are now faster by a factor of 10, fast enough to not slow down typing anymore.

Sounds pretty good. Speed-up achieved within QML or did you already go the c++ path? Oh yeah, and the inevitable question: Do you plan to make it open source?

If you need some help with german translation or a logo/graphics somewhere down the line, send me a direct message ;)