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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