For something called calligrapher I would have expected it to be able to do Japanese, but it just produces unreadable garbage when non-English is used.
Realistic computer-generated handwriting
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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think all of the car dealers I've dealt with the past decade are doing something like this. I get "handwritten" notes from them a few times a year telling me the market is hot for my 5 year old Subaru and I'd be a fool not to trade it in. I don't know if it's a machine writing the notes or if that's what salespeople do when they aren't busy.
I work for a company that writes a lot of the fundamental technology for car dealers. In most cases you probably are getting actual handwritten notes from salespeople. They’ll absolutely put that minimal effort into lead generation.
How is getting handwritten notes minimal effort?
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#213"Realistic" in mimicking a human writing on a touch screen with their finger or stylus, but nothing close to pen on paper handwriting.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#214If anyone's interested, I think this is the github url of this project (had to dig a bit since it's not mentioned in the page): https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Hmm, it looks like some ASCII characters are missing from the hard-coded alphabet here:
https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis/blob/mast...
alphabet = [ '\x00', ' ', '!', '"', '#', "'", '(', ')', ',', '-', '.', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', ':', ';', '?', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'Y', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z' ]
That seems to explain why it fails on capital X/Q and doesn't fail on lowercase x/q.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#215Trick: "Dear teacher, Johnny was sick yesterday and could not attend school. Sincerly, Johnny's mom." Anti-trick: Soon the teachers themselves will not be able to read cursive (or perhaps, recognize the spelling error).
What could Ferris Bueller do with AI?
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#216Want to see if I could get it to do a cliche doctor's handwriting. It turned out pretty funny. Input: 500mg of Amoxicillin, 3 times a day for 7 days. Lowest Speed, Lowest Legibility, Lowest Stroke Width, Style 6 https://i.imgur.com/lH0bPBs.png
The A came out like a handwritten letter alef. Maybe it is biased towards jewish doctors.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#217If anyone's interested, I think this is the github url of this project (had to dig a bit since it's not mentioned in the page): https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Thank you for the Github url. I thought this was another website like the dafont.com and is animating the text!!
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
So now I just need to go ask this startup to see their logs. I'll get your IP address in no time. Maybe I'll need a warrant. But I'm sure these guys will just be very nice and send me their logs on an ongoing basis.
Bad (or good) news, it's open source: https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
It has no license, so it is likely covered by copyright instead