[Q] Keyboard/texting help - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

First off I don't have an at&t s4, I have a USCC one, SCH-R970.
The problem is when I am texting or inputting text in a different application it no longer remembers phrases I've already used.
For example when people would ask me what I like doing in my free time...
I would type "music, movies, swimming, pool, darts, bowling, hiking, disc golf, badminton, long walks, running, video games, etc."
After typing that a few times to different people or in different applications in messages to people my phone would automatically predict the next word I was going to type, for example...
I used to be able to type "music" and then it would predict the next thing to be a , then movies then another , then swimming then another ,
and so on...
Lately when I try to type out the phrase "music, movies, swimming, pool, darts, bowling, hiking, disc golf, badminton, long walks, running, video games, etc."
I first type music, then the three things it predicts are comma, the word is or a period.
So since I want to say movies after the word music I will choose the comma.
The issue is that after choosing that it used to know I wanted to use the word movies next, but now it guesses "I" "and" or "but"
It is very annoying to have to keep retyping the same phrases over and over.
How do I fix this?
Like if I say to a lot of people "I woke up earlier than normal today" my phone used to know that I used that phrase a lot and would predict one word after another correctly, but it no longer does that... so I am having to type out everything word per word.
Can someone help me with this?
When I go to my device then language and input google voice typing is turned on to automatic, default is samsung keyboard, voice recognizer is google, etc.
In the samsung keyboard settings predictive text is on.
All I simply want is to be able to use a phrase over and over and for my phone to be able to know what word I'm going to use next like it used to be able to.
So I was able to type the word music then it would predict the next thing to be a comma then all I'd have to do is click the comma then click the word movies then click the comma again then click the word swimming then another comma and so on. That way I had a list of things I liked doing in my free time simply by clicking my finger in the same area a few times because I had typed the same thing out manually a lot.
My phone doesn't do that lately and it annoys me. Certainly there is a setting somewhere?

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Never mind I fixed it.
Solution:
I went to settings>my device>language and input>samsung keyboard settings>handwriting>then changed the recognition type from stroke to complete.
I think that's the solution anyways. Not 100% sure as I reset the settings for the samsung keyboard and started from scratch then went into the predictive text setting and had it learn from contacts and also had it learn from messaging.
But now I can say stuff like "I like music" then it will predict the next then to be a "," then the next word to be "swimming" and so on.
This is what I wanted it to do and I'm not sure why it stopped doing it, but it's working again!

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Microsoft Voice Command Experiences

If you have any experiences (good/bad), please post.
I am interested in seeing if incoming announcements are working for Xperia X1.
Thanks.
everything works EXCEPT the incomming announces.
otherweise great tool but i barley use it. good while driving a car and u want to call some1. otherweise just a gizmo
same comment as above.
I use it often to start my programs without having to go through menues to find them.
yeah i have it aswell and don't use it often, its so hard to get it to call the right person but "call home" works (might be my accent and it having trouble understanding what i say), the announcement for appointments works also but other then that i haven't used it to call anyone.
Also has anyone got it to say you got a new SMS or something? or does it just not do that.
I use mine quite a bit for starting programs, and listening to my incoming text messages and checking my battery level. Like someone said above, it doesn't annouce CallerID for some reason.
Experiaenjoy said:
yeah i have it aswell and don't use it often, its so hard to get it to call the right person but "call home" works (might be my accent and it having trouble understanding what i say), the announcement for appointments works also but other then that i haven't used it to call anyone.
Also has anyone got it to say you got a new SMS or something? or does it just not do that.
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if u want something like "u got a new sms" just use another wave file for that.
however, u can set VC to read the SMS as soon as it arrives. but i realy dont suggest that. had a meeting once and my GF just send me a dirty message ... my mates had a good laugh ^^
Has anyone gotten this program to read incoming email headers as well? It's only reading incoming smses for me, but not sure if that's a program limitation. I also noticed that my attached wave file for incoming emails no longer worked. I have disabled the sound playback from incoming emails all together in hope that it would announce something. However, not a thing.
The program is starting to proove to be pretty pointless. I was also hoping to find a way to modify the MS voice engine with a more nature speech engine like AT&T Natural Voices.
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Has anyone gotten this program to read incoming email headers as well? It's only reading incoming smses for me, but not sure if that's a program limitation. I also noticed that my attached wave file for incoming emails no longer worked. I have disabled the sound playback from incoming emails all together in hope that it would announce something. However, not a thing.
The program is starting to proove to be pretty pointless. I was also hoping to find a way to modify the MS voice engine with a more nature speech engine like AT&T Natural Voices.
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Ok i got mine to finally read my sms and email headers...scared the hell out of me when i was sleeping haha kinda of a bad idea to have it read the header when received at 5am.... but all i did was uncheck the "high priority messages only" and it plays both my normal alert sound when i get a new email and reads the email header, but all in all its just a funny program to have or for the very lazy that can't read their own sms or email, also it reads all the emails header that you received at that time and depending on if you get alot...haha hope that helps
fpbiii said:
If you have any experiences (good/bad), please post.
I am interested in seeing if incoming announcements are working for Xperia X1.
Thanks.
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It doesn't work on incoming calls for me either.
Otherwise great app I use it all the time.
also it makes my ringtone fluctuate in volume.
Although I am beginning to use my Xperia less and less, its strength with voice commands was a high point. I used it very often and was mostly satisfied with it.
George Knighton said:
Although I am beginning to use my Xperia less and less, its strength with voice commands was a high point. I used it very often and was mostly satisfied with it.
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Hey George, I thought you sold your X1 already?
Annoying
The voice command has become somewhat annoying and I will probably remove it soon.
When out doors, if I attempt a voice command using the phone microphone it will never pick up what I say, almost 100%failure rate. IF I use the wired headset it will pick it up almost 100% of the time. Why so much better with the wired headset? It's further from my mouth and surely more suscptable to other sounds.
The Voice command causes my ring volume to go loud and quiet, loud and quiet, as if it were supposed to announce the caller name when quiet, but it doesnt.
The main thing annoying me is that when I use "play music", "artist", "name of artist here" it will only add a playlist of about 2 songs from that artist, even though I have a whole album, or collection of albums.
For Example, I say "play music", (what do you want to play), "artist", (which artist?), "pendulum". (Pendulum - starts playing).
However, it will only play one song. I have the In Silico album on there and it will just randomly play 1 song from it.
So, I try Replace "artist" with "album" and say "In Silico" and it will add 2 songs now instead of 1.
The ID3 tags are perfect, the Artist and Album is spelled and capitalised correctly in every track, so why the problem?
EDIT: I found the command "Play Album" that added 7 of the songs from In Silico to the playlist. Not quite there still but getting better.
It works great for me.
Voice command awesome especially if you have a bluetooth headset.
I press a button on my headset and voice command beeps for a command. I can call anyone from my phone book. I can call home mobile or any other number asociated with my contact. I rarely repeat the name that want to call. voice recognition is pretty good. voice call announcement works perfectly.
I very often check my calender. I just say "what is schedule" and it gives me my next appointment time, location and subject. coool!
Announces new emails. sender and subject. I use Microsoft push mail from Exchange server and i have some rss feeds on my desktop in outlook. now i get my rss feeds via push and voice command will read my feeds when they arrive. wow! rsshub is useless now!
I can play music. just say Play music.
I can start any application from my programs. i say "start audio manager" if i don't want to use windows media player.
I also get some status info like battery level. i say "what is my battery level".
If incoming call comes while i am listening to music, music fades out and it announces the caller name and from where he/she is calling for example mike from mobile or mike from office..after i finish my call the music comes back on automatically. same with email announcements.
So I can do hole lot of stuff with my phone without even touching it.
some improvements i like to see in future are
capabilities to read complete email.
support all menu options in all applications.
dictation for word.
integration into navigation.
sound more human like.
Dudes, I beg to disagree to almost all of you. Yeah, Almost all.
Firstly, the voice command IS very handy. Didn't you watch the youtube demo? so here's the thing:
1. I also had the ASUS 02 XDA Zinc which has a voice commander. A different program BUT it reads emails and sms. BUT you'll have to train your voice to get things pretty acurate - as opposed to MS voice Command which doesn't need training but also doesn't read sms/email. So No it can't.
2. Good points are: with just a press of a button you can command almost everyting like getting home from work, exhausted and before putting your Xperia on your table just say " What is my battery level " way faster than clicking start > settings > power.
3. Listening to music. You know you don't have to elaborate all the albums, artist and genre it's there for a reason:
a. just say: "play anything" and it will play a song. no more than one.
b. say " Play everything " and it will play all your songs. pretty neat IMHO
c. say "play pop rock" and it will play all songs with this genre. That's why there is the genre thing.
d. say "play Hell freezes over" and it will play all eagles song under this album. That why the albums thing is there too.
c. say "Play nirvana" and you'll start to hear Kurt Cobain all hour. That's why there is the artist thing too.
f. you can also say "next track, previous track, what song is this?, stop, pause, shuffle on and off, repeat on and off. I'm still thinking why you guys aren't liking this.
g. This won't ever work if your mp3's aren't organized (e.g. putting correct artist, albums etc.)
h. play anything or play everything is pretty much useful.
4. some less frequent commands but I feel acurate: What is my signal strength?, Flight mode on, What day is this?, What is my next appointment, I kinda don't use this much.
5. Calling. uh, for me it's pretty acurate saying call Garry, call Kristine, call Raymond, then it prompts you to call home, mobile, work, car etc. you can command this in the first place invoking: call Garry home. It also shows all Garry(s) if you have more than one garry in your phone phonebook. pretty much faster than scrolling with your thumb or taking the time too unsheathe your stylus.
6. Opening programs: Well I have to grade this at 90% acuracy. It opens files even custom installed ones.
Lastly, of course we cannot expect this to work inside a speeding train or at a construction site at a passing rate. As outdoor noises may interrupt the commands. Try to watch the youtube and re-test the MS VC. I'm sure you're gonna like it.
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Dudes, I beg to disagree to almost all of you. Yeah, Almost all.
Firstly, the voice command IS very handy. Didn't you watch the youtube demo? so here's the thing:
1. I also had the ASUS 02 XDA Zinc which has a voice commander. A different program BUT it reads emails and sms. BUT you'll have to train your voice to get things pretty acurate - as opposed to MS voice Command which doesn't need training but also doesn't read sms/email. So No it can't.
2. Good points are: with just a press of a button you can command almost everyting like getting home from work, exhausted and before putting your Xperia on your table just say " What is my battery level " way faster than clicking start > settings > power.
3. Listening to music. You know you don't have to elaborate all the albums, artist and genre it's there for a reason:
a. just say: "play anything" and it will play a song. no more than one.
b. say " Play everything " and it will play all your songs. pretty neat IMHO
c. say "play pop rock" and it will play all songs with this genre. That's why there is the genre thing.
d. say "play Hell freezes over" and it will play all eagles song under this album. That why the albums thing is there too.
c. say "Play nirvana" and you'll start to hear Kurt Cobain all hour. That's why there is the artist thing too.
f. you can also say "next track, previous track, what song is this?, stop, pause, shuffle on and off, repeat on and off. I'm still thinking why you guys aren't liking this.
g. This won't ever work if your mp3's aren't organized (e.g. putting correct artist, albums etc.)
h. play anything or play everything is pretty much useful.
4. some less frequent commands but I feel acurate: What is my signal strength?, Flight mode on, What day is this?, What is my next appointment, I kinda don't use this much.
5. Calling. uh, for me it's pretty acurate saying call Garry, call Kristine, call Raymond, then it prompts you to call home, mobile, work, car etc. you can command this in the first place invoking: call Garry home. It also shows all Garry(s) if you have more than one garry in your phone phonebook. pretty much faster than scrolling with your thumb or taking the time too unsheathe your stylus.
6. Opening programs: Well I have to grade this at 90% acuracy. It opens files even custom installed ones.
Lastly, of course we cannot expect this to work inside a speeding train or at a construction site at a passing rate. As outdoor noises may interrupt the commands. Try to watch the youtube and re-test the MS VC. I'm sure you're gonna like it.
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Well I guess you're a lucky one because as I said 2 posts up from yours, the play music commands don't work properly for me. I say "play In Silico" and it will only play the first 7 tracks. I wan't the whole Album. If I say "Play Pendulum" it will only play the first 2 tracks.
What gives?
P.S. And yes, my tags and sorting are all perfect, I am an anal perfectionist, trust me, They're as sorted as they can get. Under my music folder I have Artist Folders, under each Artist Folder I have album folders. All ID3 tags within each Album are identically labelled for Artist and Album with exact same capitalisation, no spelling mistakes or errors. Infact, they all show perfectly under the exact correct places if I browse my library manually, so why can the voice command not add the whole album properly?
I say "Play Chinese Democracy" it adds only 1 track (Different song each time, I have the whole album), I say play "Only by the Night" it plays the whole album. I say "Play The Rising Tied" it adds one track (random track each time, I have the whole album).
Sfkn2 said:
Hey George, I thought you sold your X1 already?
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I sold the black X1i. I still have the silver X1a. The case is cracked, so I am not sure I could sell it.
neo3424 said:
If incoming call comes while i am listening to music, music fades out and it announces the caller name and from where he/she is calling for example mike from mobile or mike from office..after i finish my call the music comes back on automatically. same with email announcements.
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I can't get incoming announcements. THis is a problem for some Voice Command builds. WHat version and build number are you using? You can find this in the voice command app screen.
I use MV, its good for reading out incoming sms (i turn of text message tone)
im happy with it but, it uses a lot of memory 1.9meg ! so slows phone and empties battery quicker - they should make app more streamline

What I would like to see in a text-to-speech keyboard

I've been reading about the text-to-speech entry method for the Nexus One. Speech recognition is a great idea, but very difficult to accomplish.
I've always steered clear of devices without a physical keyboard, which is why (being on T-mobile) I have stuck thus far with my trusty G1.
However, this feature on the Nexus One has gotten me thinking about what it would take to get me to go with a device that does not have a physical keyboard, and I think I know what would do it.
I'd like a true "voice keyboard". I don't want the device to try to figure out whether I'm saying there, their or they're, I'd like it to let me spell, just as I would with the keyboard, with my voice.
Option A would still be prone to errors but still be much more accurate than full speech recognition, and would just allow me to try to spell what I am saying--I would simply say the letters "H-E-L-L-O-Space-W-O-R-L-D-Period" out loud.
Option B would require some memorization, but would allow for nearly perfect accuracy, by spelling your entry with the phonetic alphabet. The above would be spoken as "Hotel-Echo-Lima-Lima-Oscar-Space-Whiskey-Oscar-Romeo-Lima-Delta-Period".
I'd presume that the system would by default attempt to auto-capitalize as it does now, "Shift", "Shiftlock" and "Unshift" could be used as commands as well.
Any thoughts? Has it already been done? I'd be awfully close to putting a Nexus One on my belt if I could enter text this way.
That's an interesting idea. The nexus one does that for punctuation marks, if you say "question mark" the output is "?" instead of spelling out the words 'question mark'.
Though I still see 'option a' being prone to errors with letters that sound alike, such as "B/D/E/...". As for option b i personally think it would just be too time consuming to write a couple of sentences and it would probably be much faster to just type it on a virtual keyboard (including all the time lost correcting mis-touches). But anyway it would be nice if a 3rd party vk implemented the idea..

Speech to text without network?

Speech to text is an awesome gadget for SMS and emails but it's really annoying that it needs internet connection making things even slower than typing. Is there a way to bypass internet requirement? I mean like a language pack that we can add in the SD card
vegetaleb said:
Speech to text is an awesome gadget for SMS and emails but it's really annoying that it needs internet connection making things even slower than typing. Is there a way to bypass internet requirement? I mean like a language pack that we can add in the SD card
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nothing i have seen, and i have looked because i have also run into this restriction as well. but i am 1+ for this also because it'd be nice. plus i think sometimes it depends on your connection for the quality of voice transmitted.
when i am running HSDPA usually 90% of the transmissions are accurate, vs EDGE only about 70% of the voice transmissions are accurate. It's still a high rate but, back to the subject, I would also like to see this
I don’t think you will get this from Google and you won’t get the currently integrated speech recognition to work without a net connection. Their whole idea for speech recognition (and translation) is a “cloud” model with lots of computers across the world doing the leg work and basically brute forcing an answer. They are quite proud of it as it builds on their index technology which they have used from day one.
I read a news article on it however I am now unable to find it, sorry.
If your looking for local translation you are into third party stuff. I don’t know of any personally.
Open to correction if anyone knows better?
I though it's like predictive text, a sort of words database on the google server that they update every week, and so could be packed up as language pack.
Perhaps they could give us the freedom of building our own words database, it could take us time but would help alot, I remember the voice calling function that SE had in very old models...
I though it's like predictive text, a sort of words database on the google server that they update every week, and so could be packed up as language pack.
Perhaps they could give us the freedom of building our own words database, it could take us time but would help alot, I remember the voice calling function that SE had in very old models...
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plus i want to be able to say curse words. i dislike the fact that theyre blocked
For a hearing impaired person like myself, a speech to "text without network" has become a real search. I have been trying to find out how large a system one would need to install the kind of programs like iMac Dictate, or naturally Speaking 11 on a device like an iPad or equivalent device.
At home, I have a CapTel800i, which displays text for speech, but needs to be connected to the Internet and phone line. I need something to carry around with me to be able to communicate away from networks, WiFi, etc.
It should be possible to have a dedicated device with Dictate installed to do the conversion locally!?!?
zachthemaster said:
plus i want to be able to say curse words. i dislike the fact that theyre blocked
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So disable the block then..?
zachthemaster said:
plus i want to be able to say curse words. i dislike the fact that theyre blocked
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As the other guy said, just turn off the bad words filter.

Swiftkey Bugs / Swiftkey problems / Swiftkey issues

For 1 whole year I regularly contacted Swiftkey by email and their facebook page and asked to fix this and they never fixed it, the biggest issue/bug is, Swiftkey is taking COPIED text as TYPED text. It should take typed words only (this is big reason behind inaccurate/unneeded word prediction). Could you do something about it?
Below is the email i wrote to Swiftkey and they never implemented or fixed these in their recent versions.
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Improvement idea #1:
This is the big reason behind incorrect/inaccurate word prediction.
I was a die hard fan of Swiftkey until I realized that Swiftkey is taking COPIED text as TYPED Text resulting in unwanted prediction of words we already removed by selecting 'Do not predict xxxx'. STOP THIS PLZ
I checked this twice thrice and informing you. The problem is: Saving the words what we type is good but BAD/WORST part is, it also saves the words when you just copy text from other sources for example: Copying random text or paragraph from webpages, Ebooks and Documents. Those text are NOT TYPED by the user and those words GET COPIED to internal dictionary of Swiftkey which I don't like to be predicted while I type. I copy some text/paragraphs from webpages to read it later but it doesn't mean that I like all the words from that copied text/paragraphs and would not want those words predicted--as it can contain whatever words which i never typed and just copied it and while typing those words come across as prediction.
You can Experiment yourself.
1. Just copy the below words in a new note and save it. (do this on your android mobile not on PC) I would never use the below words ever.
2. Now, Suppose, you do not want the word 'Chateau' never ever to appear or predicted.
3. Open another new note and try to type 'chateau', you'll see 'chateau' appears in prediction bar. Long press the word 'Chateau', a message pop out saying 'Do not predict 'chateau' again.', hit 'OK.
4. Now, open the first note with all the below words saved and copy word 'Chateau' and see it will stupidly gets added to the dictionary of Swiftkey and you'll see them come across while you type.
Did you just observed ? You copied the word, you could have copied 2-3 paragraphs from the webpage which could contain more or few words which you never wish to type/use. it should not be added by Swiftkey.---this is exactly what is happening and it is leading to worst word predictions. Yes, if you rather type the entire word 'Chateau' then it should predict. Got my point ?
Words:
chateau
chatman
chatham
zuzana
zyban
zuma
zu
beau
beaune
beauregard
Improvement idea # 2:
I use Swiftkey's compact mode only to type and it is good in portrait mode. But in landscape mode, the other half screen is occupied with the empty space of keyboard. (Please check the attached picture).
Improvement idea # 3:
Sync from Whatsapp needed as many guys use whatsapp than facebook these days.
Improvement idea # 4:
Want to view dictionary words in each language and want to remove the words i never use.
Improvement idea # 5:
Shortcuts for cut, copy, paste like swype keyboard please.
Improvement idea # 6:
'Choose input method' notification bugging.
Improvement idea # 7:
Provide option to set flow trials color and width.
Could anyone fix atleast the idea #1 ? Swiftkey team is waste they give irrelevant replies to our emails, they never carefully read what user is saying.
Thank you,
Athar
Done
Good post
What options need shut off to reduce memory usage.... Maybe add a few other check boxes with notes about memory savings
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I thing I manage to disable the method that executes learning from text copy. Try it and let me know how it works.
nijel8 said:
I thing I manage to disable the method that executes learning from text copy. Try it and let me know how it works.
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I LOVE IT. Thank you very much for this mod. It's working 99% the 1% which is lacking is: It pridicts the word 'zyban' from the below list of unwanted words and that word force remains added when i delete it.
chatman
chateau
Chatham
zuzana
zyban
May be the word is the last one so remains force added?
Atharkhan101 said:
I LOVE IT. Thank you very much for this mod. It's working 99% the 1% which is lacking is: It pridicts the word 'zyban' from the below list of unwanted words and that word force remains added when i delete it.
chatman
chateau
Chatham
zuzana
zyban
May be the word is the last one so remains force added?
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I can easy add logging for you to watch what and when was blocked from learning in that particular method. The logcat message is displayed as array of all copied words. That way you can see if something else is not blocked as well. Just let me know...
nijel8 said:
I can easy add logging for you to watch what and when was blocked from learning in that particular method. The logcat message is displayed as array of all copied words. That way you can see if something else is not blocked as well. Just let me know...
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I would love to let you know but i can't read those catlog or logfiles. I'm a noob and very far from being a dev. I tried to delete that word Zyban like 10 times, it is still there. Are you too facing the same?
Atharkhan101 said:
I would love to let you know but i can't read those catlog or logfiles. I'm a noob and very far from being a dev. I tried to delete that word Zyban like 10 times, it is still there. Are you too facing the same?
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I haven't played with it much so I can't answer your question. All I know is that pasted words are no longer added to swiftkey learned words.
nijel8 said:
I haven't played with it much so I can't answer your question. All I know is that pasted words are no longer added to swiftkey learned words.
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With this Solution came in a new problem that is the words are not being deleted.
I've attached the screenshot of the words which i want to delete.

Personal Dictionary Edit (T Mobile version of S5)

My S5 learns my mistyped AND correctly typed words, and stores them somewhere on the S5. I want to remove the mis spelled words within the Personal Dictionary, but I cannot find it.
On my Samsung S3, it was obvious how to edit my Personal Dictionary, but on the S5, not so much. I've tried to use Swift Key as a keyboard, Google Voice typing, Samsung keyboard, but none of them allow me to see the Personal Dictionary, wherever it is mysteriously stored.
Anyone know how I can edit this dictionary? As an example, my Personal Dictionary now includes the word " youre ", so every time I now SWIPE your, it chooses youre, not your. Examples abound, and I'm getting tired of it. I've spent a fair bit of time in the " Predictive Text " section, and I can clear all the Personal Data/dictionary, but that would clear all my learned correct words too, so I really don't want to clear everything, just the mis spelled words.

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