Users of smartphones running the Android OS can now
have an easier time using swipes and other movements to search the Web,
after Google enhanced its Gesture Search app to recognize handwriting in
more than 40 languages.
In a Google+ post, Google said the updated app will be quite helpful
to users who prefer to "handwrite and use gestures (rather) than type."
"You can simply draw a number or letter and access, contacts, applications, bookmarks, settings, music, and more all with the swipe of your finger on the screen. You can even use transliteration across many languages so you could write [pinyin] for Chinese instead of writing native characters potentially use more strokes," it said (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+google/posts/jTeXDiNBB1D).
It said the app has been programmed to recognize "a mix of over 40 languages for quick access to content in an array of languages."
Google also said the app works for other languages where transliteration is used more often.
A separate report on The Next Web said Gesture Search allows a user to use his or her own handwriting and gestures to search his or her Android phone or tablet.
It noted Google’s gesture-searching app first arrived on Android in March 2010 but was not a full-featured offering, and still isn’t today.
"(The) app only lets you search by writing the first letter of a query — but it’s quieter than voice search and handy when you don’t want to type," it added. — TJD, GMA News
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