Your Keyboard's Hidden Data Problem

Android keyboards quietly accumulate months of your typing habits — your email address, your common phrases, your personal words — and lock most of it inside vendor cloud silos you can't export or back up. This episode unpacks how the components actually work under the hood: the InputMethodService plumbing, the learned frequency model, the surprisingly portable UserDictionary, and the two very different ways macro expanders operate. Then it turns to the practical question: how do you rebuild all of it with open source components so your data belongs to you? Along the way, a deep look at Whisper IME's architecture and why Parakeet TDT runs 17x faster than Whisper large v3 on CPU — and what that means for anyone who types with their voice. Episode #737335 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/737335