Offline keyboard with multilingual swipe typing that learns your words. Includes on-device neural next-word prediction and offline dictation from Bluetooth headsets or hearing aids.
Droneboard is an open-source Android keyboard with no INTERNET permission. Everything it does happens on the phone.
You can swipe in several languages at once without switching: Czech, Slovak and English today, more on the way. Swipe runs on the FUTO Swipe encoder with Droneboard's own decoder, which also learns the words you type. Next-word suggestions come from a small neural network that runs on the phone and predicts only in the languages you enabled.
The microphone at the right end of the suggestion strip starts dictation. The keyboard records the audio itself, also from Bluetooth headsets, LE Audio and hearing aids, and Offline Speech to Text turns it into text on the phone. Long dictation is split, so it keeps going past one minute.
It looks and behaves like Gboard: Material You colours, the typed word in the middle of the strip, no silent autocorrection, emoji search by any part of a word, and a trackpad on the space bar. Clipboard history, split and one-handed layouts and themes come from HeliBoard, which Droneboard is based on.
On tablets and unfolded foldables it starts as a compact, phone-sized keyboard you can resize and move.
This is a beta. Spanish and German are on the way.
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Contacts access has no shown use.
Permissions
- Nearby devices BLUETOOTH_CONNECT Find and connect to devices around you
- Contacts READ_CONTACTS Read and change your contacts Has no shown use.
- Microphone RECORD_AUDIO Record audio To record audio for dictation.
Uses the microphone to record audio for offline dictation. Data stays on the phone.
Release notes
- Holding a key types the symbol shown on it: hold "n" for "!", hold "e" for "3". Accented letters stay in the popup.
- A lone English "i" becomes "I" (also I'm, I'll, I'd, I've) when you are writing English. Backspace right after it keeps the lowercase "i". It can be turned off in Text correction.
Beta. Dictation needs Offline Speech to Text from Zapstore.
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