I've tried a few times and always go back to gboard. I loathe giving info to Google, but nothing else comes close with swipe typing. It takes 10 times longer to type anything using other keyboards.

I was in the same boat and just gave up. I hate giving my typing history to Samsung/Google.

I even tried thumbkey for typing efficiency.

I'm a fan...well, strike that...I have been using AnySoftKeyboard for a while and am satisfied enough with it. I don't really use speech to text, so I can't comment on that part of it.

Have you tried https://keyboard.futo.org/? It's not perfect but it's still a good alternative.

I agree with you though, I'm an open-source fanboy but I still haven't found a keyboard as good as the one on iPhone. Shame...

It isn't just you with sucking at typing with heliboard. I have used it for three years now and I still constantly have to go back and rewrite stuff or where it has auto corrected to some absolutely insane word that is no where near what I typed. Or I miss type one letter in the word and it is obvious what I would want to anyone except for this keyboard that then offers me no options.

I've never really been able to work out what the fuck is going on with it but something is just slightly off and always has been. It can be quite frustrating but also here I am three years later still struggling with it and I can't even tell you why.

Sorry I don't have a lot to add to the discussion, for the most part heliboard is decent but at the same time a part of me fucking hates this thing, I have just never found / really looked for a better alternative.

Maybe I should......