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by davideberle 2015 days ago
Wow, thank you for the detailed feedback! Minuum indeed takes a different, nonetheless interesting approach. Our focus lies with the data privacy of users' typing data and the hexagonal layout. In terms of switching languages, our keyboard does recognize and switch accordingly to the language typed. How do you feel about a keyboard that woulld learn from your typing behaviour (Also adapting to your language preferences)? You raise a good point with screen estate however, we will consider it for future implementations. Thank you for sharing your input :)
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> How do you feel about a keyboard that woulld learn from your typing behaviour (Also adapting to your language preferences)?

Minuum does that to make sense of what you type on the tiny board. It gets better over time and I've ported my data over from the last phone. But, given how much has happened in ML over the last few years, I have no doubt it could be done much better now. I enjoy it on a per-language level, but my experience with mixing dictionaries has always been awful and more of a hindrance than anything else. I eventually gave up and switched to just swiping through languages. That has been second nature since, with basically no mental overhead.

I personally wouldn't expect mixed-dictionary as a feature, and if it's there it would have to be pretty much flawless to convince me to give up that control. Then again, this might have been a problem that particularly affects Minuum, and with no overlap between the space that letters occupy, maybe it's much more manageable.

Either way, I'm excited for what you're doing and appreciate the opportunity to geek out about this topic. Thanks for reading!