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Re: Handwriting recognition question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew LM Shalit)
Mon Aug 30 16:59:21 1993

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 17:11:50 -0500
To: bcs-newton@world.std.com
From: alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew LM Shalit)

At  4:21 PM 8/30/93 -0400, Cesar Maiorino wrote:
> I know that when you double tap on a mis-recognized word and fix it that the
> Newton "learns".  You can also correct single letters in a mis-recogized
> word by writing over the wrong letter.  Does anyone know whether this
> kind of correction also causes the Newton to learn?  Just curious?

Along similar lines:

When you double-tap a word to correct it, does the Newton only learn if
the correct word appears on its guess list, or does it also learn if you
have to type the word in?  (I don't considering adding a word to the
dictionary as learning :-)

 -Andrew


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