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Realistic computer-generated handwriting
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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#172For fun: max speed, max legibility, style 2, sentence "My first name is: bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla", stroke width doesn't matter. It may take a few tries but at some point, you may get some weird results (about 1/4 time for me). It may happen with other settings, but these work well for me.
Any idea what causes this?
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#173For fun: max speed, max legibility, style 2, sentence "My first name is: bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla", stroke width doesn't matter. It may take a few tries but at some point, you may get some weird results (about 1/4 time for me). It may happen with other settings, but these work well for me.
Any idea what causes this?
Neural nets often fail with (repetitive) gibberish output when the input is too different from the training data. This model appears to take in the entire text input at once or look ahead at the next input letters, so the unusual "bla bla" at the end can mess up outputs near the beginning.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#174On the one hand, the fact that anything outside of ASCII is a failure mode is good for a laugh.
On the other hand, “AI” defaulting to a narrow and US-centric view of the world is not doing the discipline any favors.
Is it really that hard to find training data?
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#175This is incredibly cool.
And it definitely feels like something the creator could (and should?) make money off of.
Limit free usage to medium-resolution bitmaps and a subset of styles, but make paid downloads available for high-resolution SVG's and a wider variety of styles.
I can also imagine there's a market for ersatz "handwritten notes" from companies that genuinely appear to be handwritten, rather than using a handwriting font -- to license the software itself as some kind of mail-merge plugin or something. Combine it with an autopen or something, and nobody could tell the difference.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#176On the one hand, the fact that anything outside of ASCII is a failure mode is good for a laugh. On the other hand, “AI” defaulting to a narrow and US-centric view of the world is not doing the discipline any favors. Is it really that hard to find training data?
Someone created this really neat toy for us all to enjoy for free.
They don't owe anyone anything, and certainly don't deserve to be used as an example of what's wrong with an entire discipline.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#177This is neat. I'd like to hear a bit about how it works.
There is a similar paid API that does something like this https://handwriting.io (seems like they are down now though) I used to use it for print projects back in the day.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#178This is indeed a very cool demo, and runs fully client side. I have been trying to find a way to add this to my project for a while which is a client side static website. As pointed out in other comments, this is open source: https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#179This is a very old project glad to see it get the credit it needs.
One interesting thing is if you show someone this for a random sentence and ask them want do they think. They always say how did it copy my writing. Everyone thinks it looks like their own writing. Likely because its the average of all peoples writing. Try it out
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#180Who is behind this project?