Implement Automatic Language Detection When Typing

glufke commented 3 months ago

Use Cases

It's great. But there's one feature missing: it should automatically change the language according to what I type. Example: I have 2 languages installed. Sometimes I write in English, and sometimes not... The Google keyboard detects what language I'm typing, probably by the first or 2 words I type. And then it sticks with that language. That's the only thing it should be improved in order to ditch forever Google keyboard... Thanks!!!!

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Madderose commented 3 months ago

Same, I wish there was a dual input, or at least a language selector based on application used to start with. I switch all the time between two languages and it's such a pain...

Chinoman10 commented 2 months ago

Dual input would be a blessing!

On Swiftkey I'd always have either English-Portuguese or English-French, as I often use English words in the middle of other-language conversations, and it works really well.

ExecuteOrd66 commented 2 months ago

I can't stress the importance of this feature!

LunettesPaisano commented 2 months ago

Living in a bilingual country, I unfortunately had to uninstall the FUTO keyboard due to the lack of this feature. It is indeed essential.

JamarDoyle commented 2 months ago

Yes please, its the 1 thing i need then this would work very well for me and alot of other people i know

Chinoman10 commented 1 month ago

Living in a bilingual country, I unfortunately had to uninstall the FUTO keyboard due to the lack of this feature. It is indeed essential.

Every day I'm stressing out because FUTO's keyboard isn't bilingual... I'm constantly switching between Portuguese with family and friends and English for business, and I feel like I'm getting white hairs by the day... It's a shame having to switch to Swiftkey after paying for the FUTO keyboard to help support this great FOSS initiative... but in it's current state I unfortunately cannot use it anymore and can't recommend it either.

I'll keep a close eye and wait for new developments to hopefully come back in the future.

haldi4803 commented 1 month ago

I think that Is a really important feature.

But because it might take some times until it gets implemented. How are we gonna do it ourselves?

According to docs: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/keyboard-wiki/-/wikis/Keyboard-LM-docs

It should be possible to create our own dictionary which is bilingual by default or not? Might totally kill all correct predictions..... Anyone tried before?

Or.... We train our own Transformer model. https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/keyboard-wiki/-/wikis/Keyboard-LM-docs#can-you-support-xyz-language-for-transformer-lm

I'm not sure if the automatically "Fine-tune" option in settings works for multiple languages... Probably not...

So do it yourself: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/keyboard-wiki/-/wikis/Keyboard-LM-docs#model-creation

Either train our own custom Model. Or try to create a LORA to the existing model for another language... Not sure how well that might work. Maybe not at all...

haldi4803 commented 1 month ago

Original Topic was futo-org/android-keyboard#683

MaLoLHD commented 1 month ago

It should be possible to create our own dictionary which is bilingual by default or not? Might totally kill all correct predictions..... Anyone tried before?

I spent some time trying to make a transformer following the code snippets provided in the docs, but I couldn't get it working. The docs mention:

TODO: Training notebooks

If notebooks were released to make training models trivial, I think that would fix the problem.

enricocirene commented 1 month ago

It'd be such a dream for the keyboard to automatically switch between languages, it is the only missing piece for me as well. An amazing app without it, but it'd be perfect with.

Nordlicht-13 commented 1 month ago

It would help, when you just have two languages, to change between them by longpressing the spacebar, without the extra dialog for choosing the language.

dean-futo commented 3 weeks ago

Very similar to #461 - merged that issue into this one.

UnconsciousBlaringHuman commented 3 weeks ago

It would help, when you just have two languages, to change between them by longpressing the spacebar, without the extra dialog for choosing the language.

FWIW, you can replace the Emoji button with a Language switch key, which allows you to switch languages without long pressing or showing you that dialog. Just go to Keyboard & Typing > Edit Actions then place Language switch key in the Action Key section and the Emojis key somewhere else.

Chinoman10 commented 3 weeks ago

@dean-futo FWIW, I believe issue #478 and #461 are different.

461 is about supporting multiple languages simultaneously, like Gboard or Microsoft's Swiftkey keyboards.
- I believe this is the ideal solution, effectively merging multiple (maybe just 2 for now) languages into "one", so you can "dual-wield" two languages at the same time.
- 708 seems to be similar too.
478 (this one) is about automatically detecting what kind of language is being written, and automatically switch to that language; a perhaps easier implementation than 461, but definitely not the same UX.

codethief commented 3 weeks ago

@Chinoman10 Great minds… :) Anyway, @dean-futo has re-opened the present ticket. Meanwhile, I believe #461 (closed) is indeed about the same feature as #683 (still open), so I believe all should be good now? (Maybe with the exception of #708 still needing to be closed.)

dean-futo commented 2 weeks ago

@Chinoman10 thanks for elaborating. Yes, they are a different UX related to multi-lingual support and ultimately we will need to experiment to see which methods work best. Some languages are easier to implement than others and these multi-lingual support requests will be a slow rollout.

dean-futo commented 2 weeks ago

@codethief yes, they should all be consolidated enough at this point to get at the core separate types of requests, all related to multi-lingual support.

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