[Dave Beauvais]

I've found that once I configure Transcriber to recognize letters the way I write them, its accuracy is surprisingly good. The key is to not only tell it how you do form certain letters, but to also tell it how you don't. That way, common characters like "i" and "1" or "O" and "0" are less likely to be confused. For example, I've told Transcriber that I never form a zero without a cross-bar in it. That way, if I draw just a circle, it knows that it's the letter "O," not a zero.

In most sentences, I get an average of one or two letters wrong. Still not great, but considering I can enter that sentence in a fraction of the time it would take with the other standard input methods, I can live with it.

By the way, once you've got Transcriber "tweaked in," be sure to save your settings. That way, you can import those settings later or restore them to your defaults if something happens to reset them later.

--Dave

[Dave Beauvais]

I've found that once I configure Transcriber to recognize letters the way I write them, its accuracy is surprisingly good. The key is to not only tell it how you do form certain letters, but to also tell it how you don't. That way, common characters like "i" and "1" or "O" and "0" are less likely to be confused. For example, I've told Transcriber that I never form a zero without a cross-bar in it. That way, if I draw just a circle, it knows that it's the letter "O," not a zero.

In most sentences, I get an average of one or two letters wrong. Still not great, but considering I can enter that sentence in a fraction of the time it would take with the other standard input methods, I can live with it.

By the way, once you've got Transcriber "tweaked in," be sure to save your settings. That way, you can import those settings later or restore them to your defaults if something happens to reset them later.

--Dave

[Kati Compton]

Originally Posted by Steven Cedrone

Man, your thoughts are tame...

Not really, but I'm good at pretending.

[Steven Cedrone]

Originally Posted by BigDaddyJ

Yes. Especially with the T. However, for me the Graffiti-on-paper tendency wore off after about 6 months after I bought my PalmPilot Pro, and now I can use Graffiti, lowercase, and handwriting without having to think.

--bdj

Mine didn't wear off until I switched to Pocket PC (And then it took months before I stopped catching myself doing Graffiti Keystrokes - at the time I was using a Palm V, long after my Palmpilot Pro...)

Steve

[Marvinh]

A couple of people responding mentioned "Fitaly" as a type of handwriting recogniton. Excuse my ignorance, but what is "Fitaly"?

[Steven Cedrone]

Originally Posted by Marvinh

A couple of people responding mentioned "Fitaly" as a type of handwriting recogniton. Excuse my ignorance, but what is "Fitaly"?

"The Fitaly keyboard for the Pocket PC is an ergonomic replacement for the standard on-screen Qwerty keyboard."

http://www.fitaly.com/wince/pocketpcfitaly.htm

Steve