[rabboRubble]

Chinese language student, native English speaker. I haven't found any handwriting recognition commercially available for the English language that compares to what is available for Chinese Traditional / Simplified.

The best English handwriting recognition software I've found is the old Palm Pilot Graffiti writing system. It's not really developed since the late 90's / 00s. Back in the day, it was blazing fast (and pretty accurate after learning the method) compared to shitty small mechanical keyboards of the era.

After diving into Chinese I realized how deficient the English HR landscape was and how badly under-researched the area is. I think the standard QWERTY keyboard is just too efficient for the Euro zone languages to make the research investment worthwhile. My 2 cents / guess.

There are Graffiti like apps available on IOS. What I've found is that with english keyboard auto-correct, my typing is so much faster without Graffiti using the standard Apple IOS English keyboard. Kind of a disappointment...

Another conjecture, I suspect much of the morbidity in English HR research has something to do with Graffiti patent lock up between what ever remains of Palm, Xerox, and some heretofore unheard of company called Communication Intelligence Corporation.

[tonfa]

On android, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... supports a bunch of languages (and emoji).

[rabboRubble]

I hated the Android phone I had 5 years ago and haven't looked back, so apparently I'm not up to speed on developments in the Android marketplace.

I stand corrected on everything stated above!

I'll have to borrow a friend's phone to play with this and see how it compares to the old Graffiti.

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I meant offline, not online recognition.