It adds an extra keyboard option to your device, which you can use in any app where you need to type. Google Handwriting Input is an app that reads your handwriting, so you can write directly on your screen instead of using a keyboard. It would be much better if it allowed you to scrawl over the whole of your device's screen, but even then in English it's simply not going to be as quick as using a keyboard. Googles own handwriting recognition app for your Android. I was left with the feeling that although Google Handwriting Input is good at recognizing hand writing, for most people it's not going to be that useful. It's not so bad on a tablet or if you can use a stylus. Standard keyboards with or without predictive text, and others like Swipe, are much faster ways of writing than using handwriting.Īnother issue is screen size - using your finger like a pen isn't great, and as soon as you want to write longer words, Google Handwriting Input runs into difficulty. How useful it will be on a daily basis is questionable. Google Handwriting Input is a neat tool, and an impressive piece of technology. There's an option to send Google reports of your usage of the app, which will help its recognition software improve. It's not infallible, but if you're a neat writer, you'll probably never see it make a mistake. You can write surprisingly messily and still have Google Handwriting Input correctly work out what you wrote. ![]() ![]() As well as recognizing handwriting, Google Handwriting Input can recognize drawings of emoji, and it's pretty impressive.
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