My only gripe with Autocorrect is that it will sometimes take a perfectly cromulent word or sentence and change it to something that makes me sound like an imbecile.
My gripe is that it doesn’t understand that non-white names are a thing.
I don’t know how I feel about “cromulent” being in the dictionary now. Its sort of great that The Simpsons create this type of effect, but now it ruins the joke.
I was wondering if anyone would catch that.
Man I went on a rabbit hole, but basically “Cromulent has crept so deep into the language that it has even shown up as a hypothetical example in a Supreme Court amicus brief.”
Link to that ruling.
It will not let you use basic turns of phrase. Like “turn of phrase” will get autocorrected to something else. And then you have to go back and be like, no, let me type that again so you understand, phone. All the time
I’m the type to disable autocorrect everywhere, so if I fuck it up, I fuck it up. :)
This 1000%
Also, if my voice to text program uses the wrong word. I’m probably not going to fix it. Obviously this has problems with homonyms, they’re there and there for example. But also some great noisy environment issues
your dictate app seems to struggle with punctuation. If you send people texts w/o explain that you use speech-to-text, they might think you are struggling with basic grammar. Just a heads up
The people who get direct texts from me have much bigger concerns then my grammar.
ooh a selfburn, those are rare ^^
What I hate is my puritanical auto correct that tries to correct all my swear words and doesn’t recognize “harmful worda” like suicide. Who are you helping by auto correcting my swear words?
Remember that the majority of people just accept whatever is handed to them and won’t put forth any effort to circumvent any kind of adversity of even inconvenience. Other dipshits read a lot of Orwell and now they think they can shape thought by censoring or at least adding obstacles to the act of writing.
The annoying thing is, the latter are probably right.
The annoying thing is, the latter are probably right.
In a transient way, yes. But culture always circles around obstacles eventually.
And when you tell people how dangerous it is you get told youre paranoid power tripping etc.
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… or maybe it’s just that you have very rarely intentionally used “duck”.
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I… don’t think we can be friends.
Autocorrect seems to have gotten worse? i remember it working better, but now I find it happily inserts incorrect words and leads to a false sense of security. I turned it off and just look for the red underlines to tell me I screwed up.
I‘m in this picture and i don‘t care anymore.
I don’t understand this. If I’m typing on a computer and I make a typo, I’ll fix it. Why not on my phone with autocorrect? Either have it on and fix the “errors” (more like false positives) it makes, or turn it off. 🤷♂️👍
the amount of effort it takes me to ignore a typo that I’ve noticed is far greater than what it takes to fix it
however, seeking typos in a long passage is admite story
The thing with swipe typing is that it is also touch typing, so you can tell immediately when you make a mistake, just like with a physical keyboard. So while typing this comment e.g., I only paused to look down to type “e.g.” because it involved the periods. Otherwise everything was done looking at the text itself, allowing me to catch errors immediately. 👍 No need to search.
I’m not going to edit that word, duck it
Naw, trying to fix the corrected correction for autocorrect is so annoying. Agreed with the computer scenario but with phone…… maybe if it was a flip phone, you have more con control with that, not a “smart” phone.
I’m going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?
I almost never have an issue with autocorrect because I type in either of two ways:
- Swipe typing, which is way faster than normal typing IMO. And on the occasion that there’s a collision with the swipe motion, all I have to do is press the incorrect word on the text, and select the correct one from a tiny list of three most common words with that similar motion. Never fails, very quick.
- Typing each letter individually, but here I just start typing the beginning of the word, then I pick the suggestion from the top of the keyboard to complete the word without having to type the whole thing out. Also way faster than normal typing. Often using this method, I don’t even have to start typing the word at all, or just a single letter, or a couple of letters is enough.
In both cases, correcting is very fast. Much faster than corrections using a real, physical keyboard, which you said you would do. So really, logically I have no reason to be annoyed with autocorrect — and I am also actually not annoyed with it. 👍
I hope this might help someone.
I understand your position and for me I’m not sure if it’s my age or starting with flip phone I can type faster than smart phone with no error.
When technology evolved your examples came in order of 2 then 1. I did do option 2 but the phones kept getting “smarter”. At this point I just over it and these “smart” phones are doing too much. Which Im slowly reverting back to a flip phone. Well a smart flip phone if they’re still around, need some apps to live in this world.
I understand if age might be a limiting factor here. I’m nearing 40 myself. But I still think phones are getting smarter, rather than “‘smarter’”. Phones are incredibly capable these days. It’s the app makers who are making shit apps, more like. Designed to hog our attention and waste our time.
But the phones just run what they’re told to run, bless them. 🥰
My kids keep asking me if they can play games on my phone, which can definitely run games very well. I tell them I have no games on it (which is the truth), and they let me have my phone to myself. 😆 Also no TikTok or Snapchat and garbage like that. 👍 They will learn to be bored and find/make entertainment themselves, like I did damnit!
I’m going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?
Possibly. I’m in that group, for what it’s worth.
- Was unaware that was even a thing. As a long-time touch-typist, doing this never even occurred to me. And I know how to use Palm Pilot Graffiti input, so I’m admittedly embarrassed here.
- My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete’s dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn’t even a suggestion more than half of the time. I’ve struggled with this since iOS 3, and most recently on Android. It’s never been very useful for me.
Then there is/was this feature that resizes key hitboxes on the fly, based on prediction. I’m unaware if that’s still a thing, but at the time, it absolutely screwed with my thumb-typing muscle-memory in the worst way. Until I learned about this, I was convinced that I was just garbage at hitting the keys, then I started seeing it mis-register keypresses when I looked closely.
From all that I think I see the problem. These systems are compromises for a huge range of different users and communication styles. So it’s going to be pretty mid for a lot of folks until (people like me) move to the middle where the software wants people to be. Were it not for the sake of clear, personalized, and expressive communication, I’d be on board with that.
- Was unaware that was even a thing.
It’s been pretty great for single-thumb typing ever since it started being common, many years ago.
- My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete’s dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn’t even a suggestion more than half of the time.
Could you give me an example of this? Also which keyboard do you use as input? iOS/Android?
I’m using whatever the stock keyboard is on Google Android. Since we’re on the topic, I’m open to suggestions. Especially if I’m going to re-train to swiping inputs.
It’s hard to pin down anything specific as an example. If I had to sum it up, its usually where I want to use a long word with a common root for others. There could be eight or so different ways to go for auto-completion, but my choice is seldom in the top three.
the stock keyboard is on Google Android. Since we’re on the topic, I’m open to suggestions.
Is the stock keyboard GBoard nowadays? That’s what I use. It has swipe typing built-in. But if you want more privacy, I’d try FUTO keyboard. It’s pretty darn solid IMO, especially for a FOSS and gratis keyboard.
I keep turning it off, but it always finds its way back on somehow. It pisses me off.
Which keyboard do you use, out of curiosity?
I was using Google’s until recently. Now I am using FUTO.
Ah yeah. I tried FUTO but I felt like it was less accurate than GBoard. Otherwise I would definitely use it. Great product for the price. 😁
So i use the swipe to make words, but when i hand type out the word, i do not expect auto correct to assist me, and it won’t… until i move on to another word, then It sneakily changes it.
Autocorrect is the gamification of typing. That said, it’s disabled on my devices.
I still fight autocorrect because I don’t want it to ducking correct me when I type duck. I mean duck. DUCK DUCK
Just tun it off then? Why is everyone struggeling with this so much?
Because it genuinely used to make fewer mistakes just a few years ago, and has noticeably worsened
It geniunely did
With swype, there’s a whole new generation of typos - swypos.
Today I asked a coworker to check the robot. But the text said check the double. To attempt to decode a swypo you have to use a combination of guesswork and looking at the trace path for the suspect word to see if it might be close to your guess.
Swypo, love it. Brand new word…
Isn’t swype dead? You can still use SwiftKey though.
I’m not sure. I think swipe is the method of typing whereas swype is or was a brand.
Swype was the first swiping keyboard but SwiftKey perfected it. SwiftKey is also Microsoft spyware that was formerly Israeli spyware so there’s that.
Swype was closed down over half a decade ago. Wild.
What I find shocking is how terrible swipe-texting has gotten. Back in the early days of Swype and SwiftKey it was fantastic. Now I’m lucky to string together a single sentence without it getting 4 words wrong.
When Microsoft bought Swiftkey it went downhill.
In the last 5 years autocorrect appears to have got horrendous.
The amount of times it changes on to in or splits a word up in to totally different words 🤬
I have it recognize English and diagnostic, and it always changes the word “so” to “si”. and so isn’t even an option on the menu! ugh!!!
leaving diagnostic as evidence of frustration. I meant Spanish. swipe texting is cool but sometimes frustrating
