[222] in bcs-newton
Re: Handwriting recognition question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl R. Manning)
Mon Aug 30 19:25:03 1993
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:24-0400
From: Carl R. Manning <CarlManning@ai.mit.edu>
To: alms@cambridge.apple.com
Cc: bcs-newton@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <9308302053.AA25977@cambridge.apple.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 18:11 EDT
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
My experience has been that it definitely learns when you tap the word in from
the keyboard. On the Symphony Hall Newtons which were pretty scrambled after a
day of random users, at first I couldn't get it to recognize my writing for
"Hello" no matter how many times I tried or how neatly I wrote. Then I
learned to double tap and type it in from the keyboard (it wasn't on the word
list), and then the next few times I wrote "Hello" it got it right away, even
some not so neat ones.
-- Carl
