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January 19, 2013 01:46 am GMT
Google Handwrite, a small but helpful tool that the search team introduced last year, has gotten a bit of an upgrade today. The tool allows you to turn on a mode when you’re on your mobile device, to “write” your search. If you have sloppy handwriting, then you will be extremely happy to learn more about today’s news. A part of the update today is the ability for Google Handwrite to understand overlapping characters, and write more than one Chinese character at a time, if that’s your search language of choice. Here’s what Google Product Manager, Lawrence Chang, had to say about the changes today: If youve tried Handwrite before, you may have had some trouble entering a lowercase L, the number 1, or a capital I. Now, we provide alternate interpretations of your characters that you can select above the space bar. Similarly, in Japanese the characters and look nearly identical but are different characters and produce different search results. If Google interprets your handwriting one way and you meant the other, you can now more easily make a correction. While this tool might seem like no big deal, the technology behind it is quite complex, especially the above-mentioned understanding of handwriting from millions of potential users. We don’t all write things the same way, and some of us have worse handwriting than others. Ahem. As far as overlapping letters, Chang explains a bit more on how in-depth Google goes to solve these issues: Compared with tablets, mobile phone screens are smaller and are a little more difficult to write on. Now, instead of squeezing in your letters across the width of the small screen or writing one letter at a time, you can write letters on top of one another. Say youre in the grocery store and you want to look up a recipe for quiche on your phone. When you write the letters q, u, i, c, h, and e, its okay if they overlap and are garbled a bit. If Google wants to try and learn how to read your handwriting when nobody else in the world, including you, can, then more power to them. By learning how to read a multitude of handwriting samples, the company can then release functionality to scan documents of any type in, making it easier to convert them into digital format. This type of approach is how Google
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Digital Natives And Doctors Rejoice, Google Handwrite Gets Faster And Smarter
Google Handwrite, a small but helpful tool that the search team introduced last year, has gotten a bit of an upgrade today. The tool allows you to turn on a mode when you’re on your mobile device, to “write” your search. If you have sloppy handwriting, then you will be extremely happy to learn more about today’s news. A part of the update today is the ability for Google Handwrite to understand overlapping characters, and write more than one Chinese character at a time, if that’s your search language of choice. Here’s what Google Product Manager, Lawrence Chang, had to say about the changes today: If youve tried Handwrite before, you may have had some trouble entering a lowercase L, the number 1, or a capital I. Now, we provide alternate interpretations of your characters that you can select above the space bar. Similarly, in Japanese the characters and look nearly identical but are different characters and produce different search results. If Google interprets your handwriting one way and you meant the other, you can now more easily make a correction. While this tool might seem like no big deal, the technology behind it is quite complex, especially the above-mentioned understanding of handwriting from millions of potential users. We don’t all write things the same way, and some of us have worse handwriting than others. Ahem. As far as overlapping letters, Chang explains a bit more on how in-depth Google goes to solve these issues: Compared with tablets, mobile phone screens are smaller and are a little more difficult to write on. Now, instead of squeezing in your letters across the width of the small screen or writing one letter at a time, you can write letters on top of one another. Say youre in the grocery store and you want to look up a recipe for quiche on your phone. When you write the letters q, u, i, c, h, and e, its okay if they overlap and are garbled a bit. If Google wants to try and learn how to read your handwriting when nobody else in the world, including you, can, then more power to them. By learning how to read a multitude of handwriting samples, the company can then release functionality to scan documents of any type in, making it easier to convert them into digital format. This type of approach is how GoogleOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2rwtKt8edi0/
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