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sspanak / tt9

A T9 keyboard for Android devices with a hardware keypad.
Apache License 2.0
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Allow voice input with Futo Voice #659

Open vinceingithub opened 1 month ago

vinceingithub commented 1 month ago

Please consider adding an integration with Futo voice input as it is more privacy focused. I assume this app uses a Google API which isn't ideal.

sspanak commented 1 month ago

TT9 uses the SpeechRecognizer API, so it can theoretically work with any voice input app, not necessarily only Google. For example, on Sonim phones, it works with their own voice assistant. Unfortunately, Futo Voice does not support that API (according to their readme), hence it can not integrate with TT9.

One more potential issue that I noticed is, the Whisper API, on which Futo is based, has poor support for many of the languages TT9 has. This means many TT9 users will not be able to benefit from having this alternative.

All in all, I am not really convinced that integrating with Futo is worth the time and the effort at this time. Sorry to disappoint you!