Per Ola Kristensson | News

2010

• July 12, 2010 There is an article in The Economist on my work on efficient touch-screen correction interfaces for speech recognition (with Keith Vertanen).
• June 23, 2010 Nuance's acquisition of ShapeWriter is reported in the media.
• May 28, 2010 Nuance Communications, Inc. has acquired ShapeWriter, Inc., a company I co-founded in 2007.
• February 3, 2010 I have been awarded a 3-year EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship that I will take up in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

2009

• December 17, 2009 There is an article about my work on efficient continuous speech recognition systems on mobile touch-screen devices in the Swedish trade magazine Elektroniktidningen. This work is in collaboration with Keith Vertanen in Cambridge.
• April 2, 2009 There is an article about ShapeWriter in the New Scientist magazine's Innovation column called Innovation: The mobile future of the keyboard.
• March 10, 2009 Razorfish names ShapeWriter one of the top 10 mobile applications to watch in its 2009 Razorfish Digital Outlook Report.
• January 26, 2009 TotallyHer selects ShapeWriter as one of the top ten iPhone applications for girls.
• January 5, 2009 InfoWorld picks ShapeWriter as one of the best iPhone applications. Read the entire article at InfoWorld.

2008

• November 12, 2008 Dagens Nyheter (the leading newspaper in Sweden) has published an interview with me on ShapeWriter. Also appeared in Ny Teknik (cover story).
• August 19, 2008 Time Magazine: ShapeWriter "must have" for iPhone. Read the entire article at time.com.
• July 16, 2008 A free demonstrator of ShapeWriter is available for iPhone and iPhone Touch via the Apple Appstore! Click this link to reach the download page via iTunes.
  
  This version uses the mobile phone optimized version of the ShapeWriter recognizer I developed and implemented when I was working Beijing. It was challenging since recognition accuracy had to be the same as the full-scale Tablet PC recognizer I developed at Linköping University and IBM Almaden Research Center in 2002-2003, while at the same time both recognition latency and memory space requirements needed to be trimmed by an order of magnitude (this paper presents the original ShapeWriter recognizer). The lexicon in the application has 60,000 words in it. So far there are 77 user reviews and an average score of 4/5. The majority of complaints stem from a couple of unfortunate bugs in the initial "writing pad" application part of the demonstrator. These bugs were fixed in V1.0.1. Try it!
• May 9, 2008 ShapeWriter, Inc. is one of the winners in the Google Android Developer Challenge Part I! Our entry featured a full-blown ShapeWriter recognizer capable of recognizing 60,000 words (U.S. English) in realtime on the Android Emulator. All our code was written in Java using the Google Android SDK.