Holiday reflections

Posted by Hugh
Jun 13, 2015 at 11:28 AM

Dr Andus wrote:
Hugh wrote:
>>But because I’ve always believed - from experience long ago in churning
>>out many thousands of words a week at work - that ideas forming words
>>should best pass through the fingers and a pen or pencil in order to
>>reach the page, and have this year had that prejudice semi-supported by
>>brain research (see, for example, if you haven’t already
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html?_r=0),
>>I’ve long hoped that handwriting recognition would move forward as
>>quickly as voice recognition. But on my recent experience - no such
>>luck. (I could - and do - handwrite and then dictate.)
>>
>>Next year perhaps.
> >Check out the handwriting recognition on the HP Pro Slate 12 (running
>Android):
> >https://youtu.be/Q3UtZb1HX-E?t=7m59s
> >The review is here:
>http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=48161
> >Hat tip:
>http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=39650.msg383221#msg383221

Thank you very much, Dr A. I particularly like the possibilities opened up by the writing-on-paper option: it looks as if handwriting-recognition software and the tools to use it may at last be making progress.