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- 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.