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Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa Date: Wed Aug 15, 2001 10:31 pm Subject: Re: SW Touch Screen Keypad | ||||||||||||
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Valerie, Please, take a look at https://atlas.ucpel.tche.br/~fabinha Handwriting recognition by computers seems to have evolved to a trade off situation: computers are not able to recognize fully free handwritten texts, but there are many programs that are able to recognize free texts written with "standardized" hand movements (that is the principle used in Palm computers). The page shows a few exercises done by Fabiana, a student working with me, in the direction of getting a "standardized" way of moving the hand in writing SignWriting shorthand. She took a page of Valerie's book on SW shorthand and designed the ways of writing signs so that a computer program could recognize it. The signs are input by free hand, using a tablet and an electronic pen. The demo program that comes with the tablet allows the definition of 12 symbols at a time. Fabiana was able to define all the symbols and make the program recognize them. Fabiana's work shows the way I feel is the best one to allow fast input of SW symbols: not typing, but writing them, in the shorthand format, as they would be written on paper. Any comment or suggestion about the work will be highly welcome! Send email to me or to Fabiana herself: ). All the best, Antônio Carlos ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Sutton" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:14 PM Subject: SW Touch Screen Keypad > Tony McCloskey wrote: > >I am interested in designing a touch screen keypad that is a > >wearable device that can be used to translate sign language or > >SignWriting to English text or speech. The keypad would store signs > >in a database and display different signs on the touch screen as the > >conversation progresses. Intelligent techniques would be applied so > >as each device would be applicable to the individual user in their > >life. The system would learn from the user the types of > >conversations they have in certain environments and with certain > >people and learn to predict the signs that are most likely to be > >needed at each point in a particular type of conversation. > > > > SignWriting List > August 15, 2001 > > Tony - > This is a fascinating idea. Great project, if you can stick with it > over several years. It is not something that will be devleoped > overnight... > > My second thought... > I think you should contact another programmer, Antonio Carlos da > Rocha Costa in Brazil. Antonio Carlos has developed SWML...the > SignWriting Markup Language. He also works with artificial > intelligence in computers. I remember awhile back, I received a > message from Antonio Carlos regarding using SignWriting in handheld > palmtop devices...so these issues are something that he works with: > > Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa > > > SWML Site > SignWriting Markup Language > https://swml.ucpel.tche.br > > Val ;-) | ||||||||||||
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