Google already enable you to tap and swipe with the thumb and fingers to peck out text on the Android device. You could dictate in your phone or tablet, too. Now they’ve got a brand new app that allows you to use your fingerpen to compose messages.
Handwriting Input landed in Google Play yesterday, also it brings a Galaxy Note S Pen-style input experience to the Android device. Just switch inputs from the default keyboard to Handwriting and you may trace words on-screen utilizing your finger (or perhaps a stylus, or possibly a sausage, etc.) instead.
Google’s very good at deciphering including the messiest writing. They’ve gotten a lot of practice in the past, on account of things like CAPTCHA codes, their book digitizing efforts, and Google Docs’ OCR abilities. Their experience — associated with corrections submitted by a lot of users through the years — have helped produce a highly-sophisticated text recognition system.
Not only can it be remarkably efficient at deciphering chicken scratch, it’s also multilingual. Right now, Google Handwriting can recognize text in a very whopping 82 different languages. Google notes that it’s particularly handy “for languages that could be challenging to type with a standard keyboard” — like Japanese, Chinese, or Arabic. Sadly, it doesn’t get sound advice with Klingon yet.
And just because a picture will be worth a thousand words (or maybe more fun than typing sometimes), Google Handwriting Input may also translate emoji you draw — provided you don't forget to switch modes utilizing the emoji/Abc button first. Otherwise your apps will think you’re looking to scribble a copyright symbol or using gratuitous umlauts a la Mötley Crüe rather than a smiley face.