Note: This doesn't seem to work on an Opera mobile browser. Seems to work ok in the default android browser.
Google Handwrite
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#22Fun feature. Would be killer with support for non-latin based language. Imagine walking down a street in Japan, seeing a restaurant, and wanting to search for reviews. Oh no! It's written in kanji and you have a hard enough time reading basic words, much less names. Open up Google on your phone, write the kanji and add the japanese word for review behind it, and off you go. Great potential, anyway.
The Google Translate app for Android does this. I was recently in Japan, and that app was invaluable. It's also pretty decent at Japanese speech to English translation.
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#23Fun feature. Would be killer with support for non-latin based language. Imagine walking down a street in Japan, seeing a restaurant, and wanting to search for reviews. Oh no! It's written in kanji and you have a hard enough time reading basic words, much less names. Open up Google on your phone, write the kanji and add the japanese word for review behind it, and off you go. Great potential, anyway.
You can already do this on Android in any text field of your choice using the "7notes with mazec" keyboard[0]. The kanji recognition is nothing short of miraculous[1]. It's a little expensive, so check out the free 10-day trial[2] if you need any further convincing. 0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sevenknowl... 1: http://i.imgur.com/rfHTu.png 2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.s…
Thank you for the recommendation. I haven't checked this solution out yet, but it looks fantastic! I have never seen an app with this kind of kanji recognition.
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#24Fun feature. Would be killer with support for non-latin based language. Imagine walking down a street in Japan, seeing a restaurant, and wanting to search for reviews. Oh no! It's written in kanji and you have a hard enough time reading basic words, much less names. Open up Google on your phone, write the kanji and add the japanese word for review behind it, and off you go. Great potential, anyway.
Judging from the commercial it does. Although I won't embarrass myself by guessing the language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeJXKfAcpc
That was Japanese (Hiragana, one of the glyph forms that Japanese uses).
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#25I wonder if, like (800) GOOG-411, the primary reason Google is doing this is to gather data.
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#26I wonder, do latest versions of Android have support for 3rd party Wacom styluses? Although I'm not sure Wacom even sells 3rd party styluses for capacitive tablets that are as accurate as Samsung's S-pen or those old Windows tablets.
The reason I'm asking is because I'd like to buy say a Nexus tablet to use with a stylus, but want the same level of accuracy as Samsung's S-pen or better, without having to buy Samsung's Galaxy Note devices. Do those need a special panel as well to have that kind of accuracy, do they only require that Android has the necessary API's and the support for those styluses?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can already do this on Android in any text field of your choice using the "7notes with mazec" keyboard[0]. The kanji recognition is nothing short of miraculous[1]. It's a little expensive, so check out the free 10-day trial[2] if you need any further convincing. 0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sevenknowl... 1: http://i.imgur.com/rfHTu.png 2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.s…
Thank you for the recommendation. I haven't checked this solution out yet, but it looks fantastic! I have never seen an app with this kind of kanji recognition.
It is indeed one of a kind. I haven't formally studied 書道 (calligraphy), but the ad hoc 行書 (cursive style of writing) I've developed out of laziness is recognized perfectly by it.
If you're interested in good Android apps for Japanese, I would also urge you to check out Aedict[0] and DroidWing[1]. The latter, when combined with EPWING-format dictionaries obtained from a 3rd party source, is (IMO) just as good as any 電子辞書 (which themselves use EPWING-format dictionaries). I personally use the 研究社 新和英大辞典 第5版 and 研究社 新英和大辞典第6版 (they are, surprisingly enough, more than sufficient for classical Japanese and for kanbun), though you can also get J-J dictionaries and domain-specific ones, such as for IT or medicine.
0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.baka.aedict...
1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aokabi.and...
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#28This works remarkably well. I'm shocked.
yeah, I've done handwriting with a stylus on windows and mac before and had much worse results than I'm getting with my finger on this. Very impressive.
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#29I wonder if, like (800) GOOG-411, the primary reason Google is doing this is to gather data.
Why am I being downvoted for this?
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#30I wonder if, like (800) GOOG-411, the primary reason Google is doing this is to gather data.
Everything Google does is to gather data.